Embodied Awareness Blog

So why do we react to change the way we do? Our reactions to change indicate the youth of our evolutionary process.  Our first reaction – fight, flight, freeze, faint comes as an instinctive animal response to change. Fight-flight-freeze-faint is actually a reptilian response – an automatic brain stem reaction formed hundreds of millions of… Read more

In my last blog I shared with you the dream I had about the Mystery of Change.  The mystery of change is also the mystery of evolution.  And, how we embody not only physical evolutionary change, but also the shifts and changes that awaken our consciousness. We are spiritual beings housed in physical bodies.  … Read more

I had a dream the other night… In my dream I was teaching about the Great Mysteries in a retreat setting, facilitating a workshop with all of my mentors, and we had a group of around 40 participants.  In the morning session of the first day, one fellow shared a dream he had.  In his… Read more

It’s summertime where I live. In Calgary – the place I call my home – we have four seasons.  And, although, I am sometimes challenged by the extremes of this climate—like long dark winters and summer sunsets at 10:30 PM—the seasons as I experience them at 51 degrees northern latitude offers important learning. . .… Read more

My mother died a year ago.  This last week, on July 2nd my brother and I made the sojourn to her grave.  This was the anniversary of her burial.  It also happens to be the day she was born into this world in Philadelphia, on July 2, 1929.  While at the cemetery, after talking to our… Read more

Kim, “You have all these species of plants and animals here… how do you know which combinations to put together for your medicines?”    Penan Elder, “We know which plants to put together because the plants sing!” Page 292 – Embodied Awareness, Dr. Beth Hedva Using less developed nations as our mass factory sights and offshore… Read more