New Moon Intention

Looking at it from the surface, an acorn is just a seed.

Look a little deeper, and we see it holds the intelligence of a fully-grown oak tree.

The seed has the code for the bark, limbs, leaves, sap, and even the biological adaptation of the ability to leverage light as fuel for growth.

Meditation, by design, enables us to perceive the essential nature of an object. It is a tool for insight.

Meditation inspires us to look at the acorn and see the oak tree.

________

Those of you tracking my journey know I've spent the last two months applying all sorts of measures to enliven my body, mind, and spirit.

I did this for two reasons:

1. This approach feels most natural to me.
2. I was scared shitless.

Hearing the words 'stage four cancer' overwhelmed me. I felt fear of death, fear of cancer, and fear of losing all the things I love.

As I pursued treatment, my angsty bias toward Western medicine's disease-based approach that sees mind and body as two separate things and my inherent mistrust of the pharmaceutical industry added to the resistance.

My perspective collapsed under the weight of all of it.

I was in a field of acorns and only saw seeds.

________

Today, I begin immunotherapy treatment.

The past two months, I've made it my meditative business to focus on cancer, these tumors, and this treatment as seeds, aiming to perceive the code of their innate intelligence. What do these seeds look like as fully realized trees?

Here are a few highlights from that practice:

Cancer is more than a disease. It's a calling to take a closer look and an invitation to upgrade my health and life in every way.

This tumor is more than a mass of cells dividing too quickly. It's a rip in the fabric of space-time caused by a child's broken heart. Above all else, tend to that.

The treatment is more than a drug. It's decades of devotion, dedication, and intelligence encoded into the molecule structure of a golden elixir designed to usher back radiant health.

________

On this new moon, I offer you the same questions:

What are your seeds?
What insight arises when you start to see them as trees?

As always, please share your thoughts and insights here.

With love,
Kevin