Blog I: Finding Our Way Forward to a Post-Pandemic World
As the anthropologist Victor Turner put it, we are living in a liminal period, a time of ambiguity and disorientation, a time where the challenges are immense and yet the opportunities are unlimited. It is well over a year since the COVID-19 virus started its devastating journey across the globe, changing our world forever. Now, with the days getting longer, signs of spring in the air, and with increasingly optimistic news about the latest vaccine rollouts, it's time to start thinking about the future. Let us draw strength and courage from what we have all been through and now dedicate our creative energies to imagining and realizing a new world, a better world! Not being on the front lines, I remain comfortably at home cocooning in the safety of my home office. There has been lots of time these winter days to think and wonder about how and when we will surface from this crisis and return to some degree of normalcy. The other day I came across a message that said something to the effect that one day you will tell your story of living through this pandemic and how you managed to overcome it, and this story will become part of someone else’s survival guide in the future. This got me to thinking about the importance of stories in our lives, how they influence the way we are in the world, and how they guide us and provide a unifying lifeline to future generations. Sometimes life just flows forward in a relatively calm and normal fashion, but this is not the material our stories are usually made of. Rather our stories most often arise out of traumatic challenges that require us to make urgent and critical decisions to find the way forward. Stories are the glue that connects us to each other throughout time, moving from the past toward future. How will our stories from this time of global pandemic contribute to strengthening our bonds to each other, and to forging a strong collective commitment to making the world a better place? It is at this very time that we must grow our awareness and realize that we have a once in a generation opportunity to review and contest certain of those less than beneficial established ways of our past. Strategic revisioning and change can serve to create a better future both for us and the planet. Undeniably, there are some weeds that need pulling, the question is where to start? As health and wellbeing are at the forefront of our concerns at present, it is from this perspective that I would like to begin a conversation to re-imagine how certain of our health care concerns might be better addressed going forward. I come to this subject from a so-called “alternative health” perspective, arising from my personal health history and my experience in the practice of energy healing. I remain deeply passionate about and absolutely convinced that this sector can and will make a huge contribution to the creation of a new health care paradigm. From this standpoint, I also recognize that alternative health as we currently describe it is but part of a much bigger and immensely complex field of research, study and practice, based upon a wide variety of health-related customs, practices and perspectives. The integrative medicine model of combining conventional and complementary approaches is increasingly gaining recognition as a beneficial approach to healing. The challenges and opportunities for creating more integrated, holistic approaches to health care in all its many manifestations, will also feature here and in future blog entries. Maggie A Healing Gift, Cognitive Energy Healing by Maggie McLaughlin is available online through Indigo/Chapters, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Balboa Press Contact: www.cognitiveenergyhealing.ca
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AuthorMaggie McLaughlin is the author of A Healing Gift, Cognitive Energy Healing, CEH founder, practitioner and instructor. This blog is dedicated to exploring well-being within the context of current health and wellness concerns, including insights gained from readings and research on a broad range of health-related matters. Where relevant, insights from a CEH perspective will be shared. |