Where does your body end and the Earth begin? In this episode, we explore the real and poetic parallels between human health and planetary health, and how nature’s language moves in our bodies.
Joining me is Dr. Mackenzie Hall, a doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Functional Medicine, who helps us trace the Earth’s vital systems through the lens of humans as ecological systems.
We ask:
- How could one imagine the Earth’s vital organs as reflected in human anatomy?
- How does the Earth balance and health and detoxify, and how might this mirror how we work with our own bodies?
- How does the body's energetic system hold, manage and deal with pathology?
- How do we listen for the Earth’s pulse?
- How could this affect how we work as earth protectors and regenerators?
This brings up a profound point: if we are to ensure the Earth’s aliveness, we have to feel it as our own body. And, if we can sense the Earth’s rhythms as our own, can we also become its white blood cells, human agents of healing embracing and embodying its circulatory wildness?
Episode Website Link: https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/theecologyofhealth
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Music: Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd & The Rising by Tryad CCPL.
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