We are a gift
Posted by admin on December 3, 2011
As a Naturopathic Doctor, Homeopath, and small business owner—practicing in the gift-economy model—I come across many questioning faces: How do you sustain? Don’t you worry about not having enough money? Why do you do this? What about your student loans? I can’t say that I have it all figured out yet. However, at Karma Clinic, we’ve been successfully operating on a gift-based model for over three years now and don’t have any plans of changing it.
The health-care "crisis"
Posted by admin on November 30, 2011
Considering that health care is quite a hot-topic these days, I figured I would say a few words about that… is a public option at worst or single-payer at best, going to solve the health-care crisis? I doubt it. We don’t need more “access” to pills to shove down our throats. Yes, there is a time and place for pills but access to this is not really going to change much. What we really need is access to connecting with ourselves, each other, and nature. Dis-connection in one of these three ways, is probably at the root of many dis-eases. The dis-ease, depression for example, is just a symptom of this dis-connectedness. It’s spirit saying “Hey! Wake up. Live your purpose, live your gift.” Depression is the expression that something is not in alignment… it’s the moving attention and energy inwards (a “withdrawal”) as one explores one’s depths to realize, discover, and re-member one’s calling. And honestly, there’s no pill I can give you to help you magically realize your purpose and gift. No amount of xanax, paxil or any other drug is going to help you to heal.
Changing the health-care delivery system really requires us- as a culture- to look within and ask what we really need. I know that even the best-case scenario of single payer, which is not even on the drawing table, wouldn’t really solve the deep underlying issue of need for connection, need for community, and essentially, need to recognize that we are all one. It’s a process that, as a human race, we are unfolding every day… more and more layers are quickly coming off and we’re realizing our deep underlying issues. Massive increases in cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc all point to the fact that we are quickly coming upon the time when we can’t run away from that—we must heal… and healing on the individual level is a great way to heal on the human level, and evolve as a human consciousness. This is my calling… one at a time, helping people heal so that we can heal as a race. But, I cannot do this alone- I need you… We need each other… as we all come to live our gifts, we will heal ourselves and the world. In the meantime, perhaps we better make access to emergency rooms and band-aids easier.
