Melinda H. Connor, DD, PhD, AMP, FAM, EHP-C, Executive Director, IJHC

 We are in an extraordinary time in the US, watching the structure and content of our government change. A wonderful fiction author whose books I love, Patricia Briggs, said in one of her volumes, in essence, “change is never really just good or bad but brings something of both.” So how does one balance as the currents of life are shifting all around ? How does one dance in the waves of chaos and change, survive and thrive? 

To begin with, breathe. Just breathe. Then, if you know how, ground, charge and find [the center of the center of your belly. If you do not know how to breathe ask any singer. Or search social media for a video of the process. Breathe into that center of the center of your belly. Gently, smoothly and deeply. Allow your body to relax. Then allow yourself to begin to receive the flow of current from the earth and the world around you into every cell of the body. When you are in tune with the Earth, standing in the flow of the currents around you, much like standing in a stream, you have the potential to perceive the path to take for your life at the moment the new pathway opens up.