BIOLOGICAL OPTIMISM
The other day I had a client come to me for her second session of Zero Balancing. She said the first session had, “changed my life.” I loved hearing that. Then she said, “Afterwards I felt biological optimism.”
I was intrigued. I am asking myself now and you to consider what is biological optimism?
I am especially wondering because so many of the things happening in the world today do not foster optimism. I seem to have fewer grounds for hope than I had beginning in the 1960’s and still in some ways up to the last few years. So I am mentally and emotionally not very optimistic. But I have hope!
Perhaps it is to our biology, to our bodies, that we need to turn to for optimism.
The body heals itself all the time. We sleep and restore. We anticipate, then imbibe nourishing food. Our senses offer us proof of the world’s beauty at every moment when we take the time to look around us. We produce, no matter how we “feel,” 100 billion blood cells every day! With little thought we take 22,000 breaths each day. Our hearts beat about 100,000 times every day (hopeful or not!).
So at the root of your being there is grounds for optimism, appreciating the miracles of embodiment with appropriate astonishment.
I asked other people, through facebook, what they thought of when they heard “biological optimism.”
Here are some of their comments:
quote from Eyes of the World by the Grateful Dead - “Wake now discover that you are the song that the morning brings…”
An optimism that comes from the intelligence of the entire organism and not just the mind.
Biological optimism sounds like trust in the nature of it all, like a soul feeling at home in a body, in the world.
"Biological optimism" is justified because the work unleashes an army of stem cells. Then, the possibilities are endless.
I relate to it as having faith in my body’s biological intelligence and skillful processing thus being free to allow a release of “my” agenda or need to be ‘in control’
Relief that the cells feel when they realize they are free from holding back and can be fully expressed in this amazing physical body.
In Zero Balancing terms, the “rider” might be in despair of reaching their destination, but the “donkey” just keeps on the path.
If you want a miracle, just look to your own body.
Rumi – “Thinkers collect and link up proofs.
Mystics do the opposite.
They lay their heads on a person’s chest
and sink into the answer.”
“Mercure” - Pavel Tchelitchew