Returning To The Natural State

How can we come back to what we’ve always been?

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I believe our natural state is full of joy, love, and trust for life as it is. 

It seems like my entire life journey has been a boomerang to come back to it.

I experienced and learned a bunch of concepts that pulled me away from this way of being and then have had to unlearn them in order to return and increasingly embody the deeper Self who rests in the natural state.

I was at a friend's house yesterday describing the things that I am interested in right now and am considering creating.

“What if all these things could live under an umbrella?” 

He then pointed out that it was funny I was wearing a shirt that had a triangle on it and that maybe there was some symbolism there.

I found myself getting very excited because I could see how my interests in emotional intelligence, intuition, and detoxification all are interwoven. 

I came home and drew this triangle.

I realized that emotional intelligence, intuition, and detoxification are unified in that they build upon each other, helping us return to the natural state. 

I’m sure there are many books that point to this in one way or another, but for me my understanding has been gained through my direct experience.

Intuition <-> Emotional Intelligence

Intuition emerged in my own life after I started to work on examining all the unexpressed and unfelt parts of myself lurking in my subconscious. An inner voice similar to that which I experienced on psychedelics started to appear in my awareness. It provided directives and loving encouragement both spontaneously and direct communion.

I began to follow the voice with increasing boldness and commitment in the external world seeing it as the divine working through me. Many of the pointings of this inner experience directed me towards parts of my life and emotional journey that needed to be faced and embraced.

The journey of relearning to prioritize your inner compass over what the world is telling can be scary and confusing, but it is also one of the most enriching things I have discovered.

In talking to others who have had made similar shifts similar, it seems as though there is consistency with the emergence of intuition and emotion healing work. Over time they both feed each other, strengthening the presence and reliance upon the inner compass.

Detoxification <-> Intuition

Around the time of this emergence, a friend of mine had told me how when she stopped drinking life started to really open for her. For years, I had known that the things I was putting into my body were not in alignment with where I was trying to go. However, the inertia of being a single guy on our culture always served as a crutch that prevented me from giving up this part of my life. 

For some reason the carrot of strengthening the connection to my inner voice after this conversation with my friend finally tipped the scales enough to make me move towards eliminating alcohol. After that, I had alcohol a few more times over the span of 6 months until I finally cut it completely after my body made it clear it would no longer tolerate it.

My curiosity with detoxification did not stop with alcohol. 

I had some health challenges that pushed me to get tested for heavy metals and parasites. According to some muscle testing and spectrophotometry I had both! This drove me to start working on detoxing the body by cleaning up my water supply, following some detox protocols, paying more attention to my food sources, and protecting my home and sleep environment from EMFs the best I could. I know many people roll their eyes at EMFs and potential inconvenience of not bathing in wifi and cell phone signals, but there’s plenty of studies which reveal how it impacts animals (1, 2, 3). Why would humans be any different? 

When you become more energetically sensitive you also just begin to notice the difference.

I now sleep with a faraday canopy enclosing my bed so that my nervous system can at least have somewhat of a break from being assaulted by incoherent frequencies when I sleep each night. 

There were a few improvements in my functioning with all these interventions, but the biggest difference I noticed was in the clarity of mind. When I wake up there is just a blankness and presence that is just there with me for a long time. Certainly, my meditation practices have helped to this, but the difference in my own experience before and after is undeniable. I described this to my friend Nat and he likened it to how you feel when you sleep while you are going camping. The inner peace and clarity just hits different when we are more aligned with nature. 

My takeaway from all this which is kind of obvious: purifying the body, purifies the mind. I still think consciousness creates the body at the most fundamental level, but for the average human who is not an enlightened sage, the mind seems to improve when the body is well tended to.

Emotional Intelligence <-> Detoxification

As we find ourselves in a rampant US health crisis, I think its easy to lose sight of the fact that our bodies are healing machines! They are naturally miraculous at detoxing and self healing despite all the things that they go through.

But why do the healing machines seemingly slow down or stop working?

I think my biggest challenge with the western medical system is they focus a lot on the “what” and spend less time acknowledging “the why” of how illness and disease form.

Obviously there are many co-factors that create health, but the one that gets the least amount of play in our physicalist society is what happens in our consciousness. Our conscious minds are only aware of a small amount of the total information in our consciousness. I’ve heard that the subconscious mind contains anywhere from 90-95% of the information in our mind. This means we are often unaware of the majority of the information that is creating our experience, including our body. 

As I began to learn to experience and investigate my life-long emotional reservoir, it started to become clear just how many unexpressed emotions and unsupportive thought forms I inherited from simply being alive. Each time I would bring attention to these parts of myself, I could feel the tightness and strain in my body. It seemed like my body was like a parking lot for everything that I had ever been through and only over the past 5 years had I become aware of it. As the parking lot became more full and congested, it became harder for the flow of traffic to move through with ease. The impact of your thoughts and emotions is finally starting to go more mainstream with thought leaders like Gabor Mate and Joe Dispenza. Still, this is very much an emergent field of study vs. a well accepted truth.

When we start to work on our emotional intelligence, fluidity, and healing, our body’s natural intelligence and healing mechanisms come back into balance. The detox channels open back up for business, bringing us back into more robustness. And with a stronger foundation we have greater capacity for any endeavor which includes emotional healing.

Closing Thoughts

For a long time, I looked everywhere “out there” to feel the way I wanted to feel. I think this is true for many people in our society because it is how we were conditioned. Whether it’s achievement, relationships, or bio-hacking articles, we think the answers to feeling the way we want to feel are out there.

I think what we really want is a return to the natural state; a sense of unconditional love, joy, trust and aliveness for life exactly as it is…because you are life and life is you!

No matter where you find yourself on your boomerang journey, I think directing your attention to purifying your consciousness and body which are clearly interrelated is how we come back home. 

When I think about how people can skillfully navigate the next 10 years, investing in emotional intelligence, rediscovering your intuition, and detoxification feel like critical components to me!

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