While some find temporary comfort in rituals performed by others, lasting healing begins when we become true to ourselves and start making the changes our being is asking for. Healing and staying healthy is, in fact, unbelievably simple. The reason it’s been externalised and mystified stems from imperial interests realising there was no money in people taking care of themselves.

So in an effort to eradicate all connection to innate knowledge, not only was our connection to spirit severed through religious indoctrination, but witches and shamans who challenged the new world order were killed. People were systematically taught to be suspicious of wild healing plants, calling them weeds—and to destroy them in favour of crops that depended on agriculture.

To complete the vision, life was made unnecessarily complicated. Access to vital resources was cut off. People were forced into meaningless labour. And soon enough, they saw the doctor regularly—to treat the very illnesses caused by that severance.

Healing, then, is not just individual—it’s reflected in what gets implemented culturally, shaped by both power structures and collective wellbeing. More wholesome societies create fewer obstacles to health. They don’t punish rest, poison the food supply, or sever people from the natural world. They reinforce what the body already knows.