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1. Bridget Holding bridget@bridgetholding.com www.bridgetholding.com
2. ‘To act according to your nature. Allowing the holistic orienting towards health and wellbeing. Flexible contact with all parts of the organism, and all aspects of experience, as appropriate to survive and thrive. Ability to return to equilibrium after disturbance to the system.’ -Bridget Holding ‘If we have spaces on our doorsteps in which nature is allowed to do its own thing, in which it can be to some extent self-willed, driven by its own dynamic processes, that, I feel, is a much more exciting and thrilling ecosystem to explore and discover, and it enables us to enrich our lives, to fill them with wonder and enchantment.’ -George Monbiot: the mass restoration of ecosystems
3. ‘I think, therefore I am’ -Rene DescartesTop Down Functioning - The senses (I sense)> -The thinking mind (I perceive/ I reflect/ I think/ I reason) (I act)> - Emotion (I feel) (I act)> -The appropriate role of Imagination (I imagine) (I act?)> - Instinct (I sense)
4. ‘In countries such as my own, the conservation movement, though well intentioned, has sought to freeze living systems in time. It attempts to prevent animals and plants from either leaving or- if they do not live there already- entering. It seeks to manage nature as if tending a garden. – George Monbiot, Feral (page 9)
5. -Attacking the Wild Self: things we believe about our wildness-Caging the Wild Self: repress, supress and distract from the instinctual self, using the thinking mind-Exiling the Imagination-Open the Cage and Let It Out: pushing big emotions out. The perils of catharsis-Instinct-The Senses: Is going out into nature the answer?
6. Often an emotion begins in a useful form and then, because we supress it, turns against us in the form of physical symptoms or in a delayed and exaggerated explosion.’ - Peter Levine, In An Unspoken Voice (page 339)
7. Re-finding the wild self depends on seeing the whole animal, rather than just its parts. ‘Rewilding has no endpoints, no view about what a right ecosystem or a right assemblage of species looks like. It does not strive to produce a heath, a meadow, a rainforest, a kelp garden or a coral reef. It lets nature decide.’ -George Monbiot, Feral (Page 10)
8. ‘I sense, I act, I feel, I perceive, I reflect, I think and I reason; therefore I know I am.’-Peter Levine, In An Unspoken Voice. (page 282) Bottom Up Functioning - The senses (I sense)> - Instinct (I sense) (I act?)> - Emotion (I feel) (I act?)> - Imagination (I imagine) (I act?)> - The thinking mind (I perceive/ I reflect/ I think/ I reason) (I act)
9. - Set a clear intention with the rational mind-Start with instinct: get in touch with the felt sense (the whole body). Track it using self-awareness. -Watch how aspects (sensory impressions, emotion, imagination, mind) rise and fall -Maintain a sense of the whole
10. -If you lose connection to the whole, and bodily sensations e.g. by thinking, imagining, or strong emotion, move closer- bring yourself back to the felt sense and body sensations.
11. -If you feel too close to body sensations, draw back to re-find a feeling for the whole
12. -Move alongside, with the felt sense and bodily sensations as your touchstone, but being open to the messages sent by other aspects of functioning. -Remember: you are an animal, always wild, and will orient towards health regardless of whether you think you are doing it ‘right’, or ‘wrong’.
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