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Happy Solstice to all, whether Summer in the north or Winter in the south! On Monday we learned that the Summer Solstice was traditionally the season when the ancients gathered their herbal medicine ahead of the darkness of winter. This undoubtedly had magical and ceremonial associations, but also practical ones: a plant is at its peak of healing compounds during the blossoming time of the year.
This week, tell us: what “medicines” do you gather into your spiritual or emotional medicine cabinet? If you gather herbs, you can tell us about that! But think more metaphorically, too. What do you need to have at hand to salve your daily discomforts, sorrows, ills, and griefs?
In my spiritual / emotional cabinet I always have on hand; music, always music, it’s healing properties are extraordinary. Plus...space to think, process & order my thoughts and feelings (some literal space to just sit and meditate, sometimes white space on paper), and nervine herbs to help calm me physically.
I'd say that "medicine" for daily and mental use is some blend of slowed-down things. Hearing music (actually hearing it), reading poems, walking (our dog is game for walks always), and others, since these things return the brain to the body, as it were.
I am kind of confused about this space. It seems like you open it up to be welcoming to everyone and even embracing of traditions that are extra-Christian (at least from the current church's viewpoints) but then I heard you make comment that reign it back into "these experiences within these beliefs." I am not trying to be critical, just trying to understand. I love your space but after I shared my experience of how I hear the Holy Spirit I felt like the following post was a doctrinal "boxing in" that made me feel uncomfortable to share here.
Let's Discuss: Stocking the Medicine Cabinet
In my spiritual / emotional cabinet I always have on hand; music, always music, it’s healing properties are extraordinary. Plus...space to think, process & order my thoughts and feelings (some literal space to just sit and meditate, sometimes white space on paper), and nervine herbs to help calm me physically.
I'd say that "medicine" for daily and mental use is some blend of slowed-down things. Hearing music (actually hearing it), reading poems, walking (our dog is game for walks always), and others, since these things return the brain to the body, as it were.
I am kind of confused about this space. It seems like you open it up to be welcoming to everyone and even embracing of traditions that are extra-Christian (at least from the current church's viewpoints) but then I heard you make comment that reign it back into "these experiences within these beliefs." I am not trying to be critical, just trying to understand. I love your space but after I shared my experience of how I hear the Holy Spirit I felt like the following post was a doctrinal "boxing in" that made me feel uncomfortable to share here.