06/26/2026
๐๐๐น๐๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ข๐๐ฟ ๐๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ง๐ต๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ช๐ถ๐๐ต ๐๐น๐น ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ฒ
At the heart of my work lies the influence of the Daoist animistic perspective of life.
A wisdom born in the time of the Wu, often female, the ancient visionary intermediaries, between human and the spirit world. Rooted in a time when humans were in intimate relationship with the land.
The understanding of Wu Wei, the Daoโs way of generating and sustaining all things spontaneously. Wu Wei is effortless action, meaning responding in harmony with the natural flow of life. So humans, following the inherent nature of all life, would benefit from aligning with the natural order.
Earth demonstrates this natural order through all of its rhythms and cycles, ecosystems and interdependent relationships.
Therefore, if we follow the Earth as our primary guide and teacher, we will begin to be within a deeper relational flow with all of life.
We do not need to strive to be in flow; we do not need to react to be in flow, as this implies emotional investment in the outcome, but rather, we would find flow by simply responding in alignment with the natural order.
All of this can just be ideas and words. What is the natural order? I have found that observation of nature and the five transformations (elements) of Daoist philosophy present us with a clear map of the interactions of energetics and relationships of life force energy.
Having grown up in a culture that is always striving, I have been trained to try to have too much intent, to force and tackle resistance. This has taken a lot of letting go in many years and is still a process. I remember years ago learning about human design and that I am a generator and sacral response and that I need to learn to respond rather than pursue, which fully aligns with the Daoist philosophy of Wu Wei, maintaining harmony through least resistance. ( ok that meant I needed to drop the โif one door doesnโt open, there are 10 more to tryโ lol)
Through metabolizing this understanding, I came to understand that in order to be able to respond in alignment with the highest possibility, I needed to cultivate my human qualities, meaning attuning myself to the natural order of the energetics of life, clearing the societal and inherited distortions that influence me to feel separate and inhabiting patterns caused by this separation and past experiences. When I speak of separate, I am referring to outside of nature, outside of the ecosystem that we are a part of that nourishes and sustains life on Earth.
This separation causes us to create action from desire, ambition and ego that leads to conflict, disappointment and suffering, creating stories, more reactions, patterns and imbalance.
Society furthered this separation when it undermined our spontaneous, intuitive actions.
read the rest in substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/naturealchemycultivation/p/cultivating-our-capacity-as-humans
