IntraConnected

Embodied flow literally means “how energy flow occurs within the skin-encased body and its brain in various manifestations,”

As John O’Donohue once said, “I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding”

What might we do to create conditions that melt that ice, that free our compassion to liberate our connection?

To connect head to heart may mean linking the logical reasoning of the head with the compassionate feelings of relational connections of the heart. To melt that ice, we may need to inform and transform, to realize the relational fields that connect us, even if the logical eye cannot yet see.

The fundamental question, then, is how can we construct the most integrative experience of self possible to promote well-being in our world?

When we do not sense how we belong to larger systems, when we deny the reality of this unseen, intraconnected nature of the world, we come to live a partially true life, a life of separation.

have come to appreciate that our sense of self sometimes becomes distorted and misleads, constricts, and limits our well-being in life.

We can choose to take on these integrative ways of living in relationship with responsibility, with a mutuality of reciprocal influence, and in ways that redistribute and share our gifts—all driven by the innate force of love.

systems perspectives can empower us to see the interdependent whole and how we, individually and together, can then act to create a flourishing and fair world for all.