There is a tendency, particularly in health discussions, to reduce everything to a simple question of what is good and what is bad. Parasites belong firmly in the latter category, at least according to the conventional story. But the deeper I get into the terrain model, microbial ecology, fasting, and the strange adaptability of living systems, the less satisfying that binary becomes. What if the organism we are calling the problem is sometimes part of a much larger process? And what happens when we start asking not simply what an organism is, but what it is doing, and why?
Tag: healing
The Language of Illness: From Symptoms to Systems
The Living Terrain of Body, Mind, and World
There’s something about the simplest questions that can open into much larger territory. A cold, a symptom, a restless night, a shift in mood, a change in the weather: none of these things necessarily exist in isolation. They happen within a living system, within a particular person, at a particular moment, in relationship with everything surrounding them. And perhaps some of what we have forgotten begins there, in the relationship itself.
There are some ideas that seem almost too simple to notice until, once noticed, they begin to rearrange everything around them. Perhaps this is one of those ideas. Perhaps the body has been telling us the same thing all along, in a language older and more immediate than anything we have constructed to explain it.
The Body in Motion: From Slow Jogging to Whole-Body Locomotion
Feet, Fascia, Breath, and Rhythm
Somewhere along the way, movement became exercise, exercise became industry, and ordinary human function became something we apparently need experts, equipment, programs, and branded methodologies to recover. Slow jogging is interesting precisely because there’s almost nothing to it. Move gently. Stay relaxed. Let the feet, legs, hips, arms, breath, and nervous system remember what they already know how to do. The more interesting question isn’t whether we can optimize it, but how much of our natural movement we’ve gradually trained out of ourselves in the first place.
The Body Remembers: Fascia, Healing, and the Shape of Experience
Adaptation, Injury, and the Search for Wholeness
There are times when the body seems to be speaking in a language we only partly understand, and yet we feel, instinctively, that it is telling the truth. Not merely in pain or stiffness or fatigue, but in posture, in tension, in the subtle ways we compensate, endure, and carry ourselves through life. What begins as an inquiry into fascia soon opens into something wider — into memory, habit, injury, emotion, and the strange intelligence of a body that is forever adapting, and perhaps, when given the chance, trying to restore itself.