2.3 Healing Metabolic Imbalance

To know how to heal our Mother Earth’s metabolic imbalance, it helps for us to first know how to heal human metabolic imbalances. In industrial societies, it has long been thought that human metabolism was similar to the operation of a steam engine, in that food was seen as equivalent to fuel while drink was treated as a solvent, lubricant, and source of steam. The heating capacity of one’s food (its calorie count) was considered to be its most relevant factor, while biological waste products were seen as equivalent to ash and exhaust to be disposed of. An increasing supply of fuel (more calories) thus implied an increasing amount of power and, as such, was encouraged by industrial societies, which sought to put such power to work.

In reality, inhaling and exhaling, drinking and urinating, eating and excreting,... are all means to facilitate the dynamic equilibrium of your body, for the purpose of increasing your ability to function. This means that there is no such thing as an optimal daily calorie count, an optimal daily amount of water to drink, or even an optimal amount of exercise for you to regularly engage in, because you are not a standardized machine being operated for the purpose of maximizing productivity.

Rather than relying on recommended daily amounts, facilitating the dynamic equilibrium of your body involves fully feeling what your body needs and wants in each moment. Just as your body knows when it needs to inhale and exhale, when it needs to drink and urinate, and when it needs to eat and excrete, your body also knows what to eat, what not to eat, how much to eat, when not to eat, when to rest, how much to exercise, and much, much more. What gets in the way of you fully feeling your body is the partial unconsciousness that results from contracting your nervous system, such as when you ignore your body, act out of habit, or react in fear.

The unhealthy cravings you experience are not failures of your body to communicate your needs to you but rather attempts by your body to reduce the emotional pain and discomfort that it senses when such feelings are present in your heart. Simply by feeling fully and fully loving yourself in each moment, you gradually and naturally heal metabolic imbalances by overflowing with self love1.

Similarly, healing the metabolic imbalance of our Mother Earth starts when we fully feel the knowing and desire in our hearts to increase the ability of life on Earth to function. It continues when we fully love, by acting upon the love that we feel for our dear Mother. By doing so in each moment, we continually make choices that serve the healing and regrowth of life on Earth, helping our Mother’s body to restabilize her metabolism and dynamic equilibrium.

Even if humanity completely stopped acting like a spreading bacterial infection overnight, we would fail to heal our world if we failed to love and act upon our love for Mother Earth. This is because we are not separate from our Mother. To love our Mother is to love ourselves. Even though she can thrive without us, we cannot thrive without her. That is why global restabilization requires us to not only heal our infection but also to cure our cancerousness.

→ 2.4 Curing Our Cancerousness