Life is designed to be cooperative over competitive
A catch-up on travel, quantum physics, and why the summer cohort of Sit is special
I have so much to catch you up on that we need to slow down to cover all of it. Let me, post full moon bring you this insight Richard Rudd wrote about a new perspective on our physiology:
“However, quantum biology has discovered something very remarkable that directly challenges this. The brain of the cell does not reside in the nucleus after all, but in the cellular membrane, which provides an interface with the environment. In a nutshell, this means that life is designed to be cooperative rather than competitive.”
Life is designed to be cooperative over competitive. I started reading The Gene Keys recently; they plopped into my life. I first heard about them twenty years ago when the book came out and my cutting-edge friends were trying to explain to me that there was this new book that encapsulated all of the major philosophies in a new way, and I was not ready. Unfortunately, my not ready often looks a bit like scoffing, saying I don’t need to learn one more thing, when in fact it means I will be doing just that when the time is right.
This post is about cooperation. First, with ourselves. What an exhale to be on our own team, and if you are not able to sink into that, may you have the bounty of a circle around you that beckons you forward. I know we don’t all have that, but interesting even if we do or we can, we do not always allow ourselves the comfort, which is very human and quite ridiculous. If I say so myself, about myself. Because I’ve done it and didn’t even realize it’s what I was doing.
One of the myths that illuminate this is the story of the Japanese Sun Goddess, Amaterasu. I had heard this story about fourteen years ago, but I was unable to sink into it. Even as it was played out in my backyard — literally. I mean, it wasn’t my backyard. I rented. And I didn’t play it out, my roommate did. She was running a fundraiser for her school and she picked the story of Amaterasu to draw in and capture the essence of what she was needing.
I didn’t get it then, but I get it now — 14 years later.
It’s about the very relatable experience of hiding away in a cave because you cannot see your own worth, and life beckoning you outward to show you your own perfection. Sometimes we need to be tricked into remembering how marvelous we are. I think this is often called Grace. Even the sun goddess forgot herself. It was her friends that brought a mirror to catch her light, a light so bright that in spite of herself she was curious, and peeked out of the cave to see her own reflection.
I’ll talk more about this in upcoming posts; it is not lost on me that it took over a decade for me to understand this myth in a not so coincidental timing of life. I cherish grace in whatever nook she finds me. The makings of a well lived and loved human life doesn’t work on fast forward, it unfurls slowly, perfectly over tides of time as we learn to lean into ourselves. This episodic learning can take a day, a phase, a decade or an incarnation. As I tell my son, sometimes you have to go slow to go fast. Sometimes you circle around a cycle ripening to harvest; we all know about picking unripened fruit.
Sometimes it can be hard to cycle though and we leave the moment right before the integration. “However, fear is the raw material of the higher states and must be passed through,” says Richard Rudd, and my life experience agrees. But if we allow and water the idea that life is to be cooperative and the fears are to be traversed for liberation than the whole thing can take on a new texture. Often the traversed journey is the one that we take in stopping, sitting, and feeling the texture of the moment. Becoming friendly with ourselves.
I was talking with a Divorce Coach today who affirmed for me that there is not much new we can teach and access if we don’t first regulate, or at least befriend our nervous system, which is the history of our-cell-ves, ours and our ancestors that is.
I really wanted to have space for those attuned to the energy afoot right now, without further pressurizing the moment. So I decided to expand Sit in Your Center, in that you can attend all live calls for a year. The recorded class content is lifelong, but if you want to cycle around and have support to grow through the seasons now you have a space, too.
Each cohort offers something different. What is Sit In Your Center? It is a distillation for a woman to rembody her being. Often times we are so overwhelmed we have rushed right out of our own self. This container is grounding & energizing. In a world of should’s: it is a spacious container to hear answers for you and your life.
In June, we are focusing on worth, the validity of our desires, and creating harmony in our lives. Our inspiration is the story of Amaterasu, the Japanese Goddess of the Sun, beckoned forward by her own light, beckoning us out of our own caves.
We begin June 15th.
Curious? e-mail me questions.
Thanks for being patient with me as I travelled. I had intended to write, but it was a moment that needed my full presence, and here I am back to share the stories that were woven.
More soon, thanks for being here,
Kate
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