Everything we eat and drink becomes part of our body in an intricate process that manifests into physical health and wellbeing. Everything we allow into our lives—activities, beauty, art, friendships, work—also impacts our wellbeing. We are sensitive to the subtlest vibrations imaginable. But we coat ourselves in a veneer of protection. We draw around us a shell we hope will keep us safe from harm, forgetting that we can never truly be separate from everything and everyone else. We use our mental body to justify, argue, judge, or resent, and we start to believe that we’re on our own and that we’d better watch out. But then, when we protect ourselves too thickly with too much armor, we feel lonely. Every now and again imagine our Mother Earth as a great breast, and that everything we eat and drink flows from her. We are all suckling babes. She nourishes us in ways we are as yet unconscious of. Let yourself feel this ever-present connection with her and everything and everyone in the world. Digest this feeling—feel it in your gut. You are never alone—and you are so beloved.
