Beginnings. What a beautiful thing they can be. Of course, the end of one path is where another path begins. When the conditions supporting one perspective become too confining, the boundaries of the perspective must crack open, like the shell of a seed, and something new begins to take shape, and its relationship to existence around it cannot be the same as it was the instant before the shell split. Like the caterpillar, once it has consumed enough for its body to mature, and it has absorbed and experienced all the juvenile hormones it could stand, it spins a chrysalis around itself, a barrier to the outside world in which an alchemical evolutionary process begins by completely disintegrating its previous form as it transfigures into something quite different, and once that process ends, and the new form pries through its barricade soon to realize that it now has the gift, through its process of complete self reinvention, to view the world from a much higher, much broader perspective.
And so too like our own human evolution in form, which is far more similar to the caterpillars journey of transformation than merely metaphorically. We too eat until the form matures. We too have a store of "juvenile hormones", although they are typically just refereed to as hormones alone. But there's something more there to be explored in that. As the title to this blog suggests, the mind comes first in healing and wellness. Not the body. Why? Because the mind has a certain dominion over the body, not vice versa as our hormonal emotional experiences may attempt to convince us. The body cannot act unless the mind wills it to. It does not act of itself. And this holds true not only on the surface level of physical movements, but all the way down to the atomic structures of our DNA. And this is why our journeys of transformation are so much more similar to that of a caterpillar than metaphorically.
Invocation. We imbibe what we invoke, and what we invoke uses thoughts and words-symbolism. The meanings we assign to words are the intentions that we imbibe, and depending upon our interpretation of the meaning of the words we use both in thought and in speech, our bodies will either heal and transform, or they will form diseases, and decay prematurely. And so, in order for us to heal fully, we need to participate in more ways than merely eating healthy and exercising the body, because nourishment is not only in the food. It's in the meaning that we assign to the words we think and speak-about ourselves, about each other, about the food we eat, and about the environment that surrounds and envelopes us.
So how then do we know what thoughts will help us heal, or hinder us? How do we know that our interpretation of meanings of words is correct for us within the context of healthy thought and spoken word? Because words are so very powerful in this regard, wouldn't it be of paramount importance to have a clear comprehension of their meanings- their TRUE meanings? We live in a world of many different languages, although they all have an origin, and that is where the true power of words lay- in their original intention of transmission-etymology.
Correct use of language results in deeper understanding, healthy communication, and a healing relationship-with ourselves, with others, and with Divine intelligence that no spoken word can adequately describe. Correct use of language clarifies perception, filters out deception, and brings us ever further along the rainbow connection to the beyond-within.
Blessings, Love, Namaste.