Healing Rooted in Collective
“I’m not trying to ascend. I’m trying to root so deep the stars have to come down to find me. ”
I recently came across this quote by Rainier Wylde and it immediately resonated. This is how I think of and approach healing. Healing and spirituality are so often thought of as ascending above something.
The danger is ascending above others as a hierarchy develops in the form of self care at the expense of others, selective care- who is and isn't worthy of it, and consumer based notions of healing and wellness afforded to few. This can also manifest as spiritual bypassing and hyper individualistic self-care that is surface level and detached from one's relationship to community, nature, the world and our interconnectedness.
So many have gone astray in their healing and spiritual journeys at the expense of others, when we could be continually awakening to the fact that we do not need to choose one or the other. They naturally coexist. The act of rooting in our journey beautifully grounds us to self interwoven with the collective, born of the land, and steeped in ancestry, and embraces our own lived experience, as well as others. There is no ascending above, only marinating in and merging again. This is true healing.
