Energy Cycles and Disease

Summary

The text discusses the disconnection between modern human lifestyles and the natural cycles of energy, suggesting that this dissonance leads to illness as the body's way to reassert the need for harmony with nature's ebb and flow.

Abstract

The article "Energy Cycles and Disease" by White Feather emphasizes the importance of aligning human life with the natural cycles of energy, as exemplified by the ebb and flow of ocean tides. It argues that modern society's relentless pursuit of success, productivity, and achievement has caused humans to ignore these cycles, leading to a disconnect between the body's natural rhythms and the mind's societal conditioning. This misalignment is believed to result in physical and mental disturbances, manifesting as illnesses that force the mind to pause and reconsider the body's needs. The text calls for a return to living in the present moment and respecting the cycles of rest and growth, much like other forms of life on Earth, to maintain health and balance.

Opinions

Human society has prioritized societal success over natural living rhythms, leading to a loss of touch with the cyclical nature of energy.
The pursuit of success is an illusory and endless endeavor that ignores the body's need for rest and rejuvenation.
The natural world, including animals and plants, does not strive for distant goals but lives in harmony with the present moment's energy cycles.
The human body, being part of the Earth, naturally follows these energy cycles, but the mind has been conditioned to oppose them, causing friction and imbalance.
Disease is seen as the body's mechanism to force the mind to acknowledge and realign with natural energy cycles.
Despite the clear signals from the body, many people continue to ignore these natural cycles even in the face of illness.
The author advocates for listening to the body and recognizing its inherent wisdom in maintaining health through alignment with natural rhythms.

Reconnecting to our bodies and the planet

Anyone who has spent much time on a beach knows about ebb and flow. The ocean is a great teacher of the cyclical nature of all life on this glorious planet. The tides come in and they go out. All the animal life and plant life living in this ecological zone is aware of these cycles and their lives are structured to follow these natural cycles. It is all about energy.

Energy is cyclical and nature responds and reacts to these cycles in a natural and harmonious way. Humans, however, have lost touch with these natural cycles of ebb and flow. They have lost touch with nature.

In today’s modern culture humans are conditioned to ignore these natural cycles of energy. They are taught to constantly strive for societal notions of success. They are taught to never stop working towards these concepts of success. We must be constantly working towards this illusory fulfillment and any “slacking off” is considered as “bad” and “lazy” and “weak” and “anti-social” and “defeating.” Everything we do must be a means to an illusory concept of “success.” We are conditioned to believe that all the energy we put forward is a means to an end.

In the natural world there is no calendar of success. Time, like energy, is cyclical. The present moment is all that there is and that present moment is always either in a state of ebb or flow. The present moment is never a means to an end. It simply is.

The birds and the animals and the fish and the trees are not constantly working towards some illusory distant goal of success. They are living in the present moment; in the ebb and flow of life. During the ebb they rest and rejuvenate and during the flow they grow. This is how life sustains itself on this incredible paradise of a planet.

Humans, however, have stepped out of this natural rhythm. They have replaced living with achieving. They have replaced harmony and balance with notions of success and wealth and accomplishment and productivity. To achieve these illusory goals they must step out of natural energy rhythms and constantly strive and struggle. Instead of going with the natural flow they have been conditioned to fight against it. Never give up! Never rest! Push, push, push for success and accomplishment and productivity.

In modern Western society humans have been taught to never rest, to never allow their energies to ebb and rejuvenate. But our bodies are still connected to the natural ebb and flow of life. Being made up of Earth elements, our bodies are naturally tied into the energies of the planet which are in a constant state of ebb and flow. Our bodies are following natural cycles but our minds are following the dictates of society.

This creates a significant energy disturbance. The energies of our bodies and the energies of our mind/egos are not in sync. When you have opposing energy forces there is friction, imbalance and disharmony.

We have been led to believe that our minds are more important than our bodies; that we can somehow override those natural energy cycles which our bodies adhere to. We have been taught to keep our focus on success and achievement and not give in to the natural ebb and flow of energy and then we can overcome those natural energy cycles and succeed in the society-imposed measures of fulfillment and happiness and success.

So what would you do if you were a human body living within the natural cycles of the ebb and flow of nature and you had to live with a human mind that was living in direct opposition to those natural forces of ebb and flow? How could you get that darn human mind to stop long enough to slip back into natural cycles? How could you get it to slow down and allow the natural cycles of ebb to rejuvenate and energize the body and mind? It can seem like an impossible task to get the conditioned Western human mind to step out of its relentless quest for achievement long enough to recognize and slip back into natural cyclical rhythms.

But it really is not that hard. All the body has to do is create disease. There is nothing like disease to pull the mind out of its frenzied quest for success and bring it back to the natural state of the world. Nothing will get the mind’s attention faster than a full-blown illness.

So much illness and disease comes about because we are out of touch with natural cycles and it is the only way our bodies can bring us back into those cycles. And even then many of us still do not listen.

Listen to your body. It knows.