Salutogenesis
There's a lot going on!
As I mentioned in last week's blog, I sat down with the always wonderful Rob Cook, and we discussed deep listening, the first annual Listening World Summit: Listening from The Heart, and how listening is a Universal key to unlocking potential peace, health, and creativity personally and globally.
Listen to "We're Listening with Rob Cook" on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/we-re-listening/id1548161025?i=1000655143226 or on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/47ZfmNqP7LKW0qgVem1Puh?si=aa2e1e3be8564540
As many of you know, I've been helping organize an international summit conference in Prague and free online (https://thelisteningworld.com/) May 24-26. Working with all the speakers, from many different backgrounds and countries who are bringing the inside-out understanding of life to the world in all their respective fields, has been a huge joy. I've also realized the depth and breadth of experience represented by this amazing group of people from psychiatry, psychotherapy, performance and executive coaching, to people reforming prison systems and educational systems worldwide. It's going to be a fantastic event.
I'm also super honoured and excited to announce that I have been asked to lead a 90-minute workshop on the Sunday at the Summit on our innate health and listening to the body's wisdom. The title is "Yeah, but What About the Body: Listening, Wisdom, and Innate Health".
It brings to mind one of my new favourite quotes from Dr. William Pettit, Jr. "There is always hope because there is always health."
He wrote that primarily with mental health in mind; however, it's also true for physical health. Our mind and body are actually one thing and have innate health. What we call unhealthy is non-judgemental compensation or handling of challenges that arise in an effort to return to perfect functioning. The symptoms we don't like are actually the innate health of our body doing its job. It may require action on our part to help it along but often doesn't. We never stop expressing full health. We can also take salutogenic action to enhance body connection to innate health.
Salutogenesis is the study of factors that bring about health. When I was in school (both chiropractic and molecular biology degrees) salutogenesis was used to describe the inborn force observed at both a cellular and a larger physiology level that works behind the scenes to direct the unerringly perfect function of our bodies.
I recently wrote an email to one of the other doctor speakers at the conference about why salutogenesis is a concept worth exploring:
"What is this salutogenic force? It directs all intracellular activity. What genes get transcribed and when, what proteins form and when, what gets let into the cell and doesn't and when etc. At first, a chemical field was proposed and then discarded as no chemical field exists. Then electrical potential - nope. Now the current thinking is that there is an energy field that interacts with the greater energy field of the Universe at large and is directing cellular and molecular activity of our bodies. lol. We have the answer they are looking for. Also, the chiropractic profession looks for salutary principles. They say it's the removal of interference to the innate intelligence of the body in the form of thoughts, physical injury and chemical injury or toxicity e.g., poisoning. We have the answer they are looking for. "
The simple yet radical act of seeing your body, mind, and life as perfectly healthy while listening and trusting intuitive action is foundational.
With Love,
Sara Joy