Cannabis Wisdom and the Resilient Human — Part III
By Susan Boskey
Once you recognize your conditioned separate self perpetuated by the societal matrix, you are at choice. You can see the matrix for what it is while still navigating your life in it. The difference is, when you see the matrix, you gain an option to voluntarily broaden your view. (See Part I and Part II of the series.) In the background, an un-conditioned, universal intelligence awaits those who check it out; a medicinal dose of cannabis can take you there.
Resilience does not come easy living in the matrix. Quite the opposite. For the most part, the guiding principles and beliefs of the matrix cultivate disconnection – from ourselves, others and nature. Disconnection thrives on the ground of a binary, either/or type of thinking. Blame, anger anxiety, stress and depression result.
As mentioned in Step I, our society’s guiding principle of competition as not only important, but superior to cooperation, colors our thinking and behavior. Shades of being stubborn, unfeeling, unforgiving, rigid, uptight and/or defended are considered ‘normal’ and to be expected.
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It’s all in your head
What happened? Have we trapped ourselves in ‘the matrix’? Have we forgotten both what we deeply value and who we are?
“It’s all in your head” is a phrase that has been said for decades to unkindly suggest that someone’s psychosomatic disorder (soul pain) lacks any real physical corollary and is illusory. Yet considered thoughtfully, the corollary exists because of the body/mind connection. Patterns of thinking become habitual and express themselves as emotions crystallized as physical pain. [1]
Pain can lead us to believe the problem lies exclusively within ourselves. Certainly, we might need to re-evaluate our lifestyle choices, etc., but the cause of our malaise is often a response to external situations and circumstances generated by the matrix.
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It’s no secret that today’s environmental and social politics have taken a huge, emotional toll on individuals, flooding downstream to family, friends and colleagues. Polarization and tension runs high. Many feel depressed and hopeless. Soul pain can also be existential when questioning the meaning of life.
Leaping back – your sanity or your life
No one really wants to surrender their wellbeing to the downward spiral  our society is taking; yet relief is hard to come by.
The only real ‘fix’ is taking matters into our own hands. Each of us has the power to voluntarily ‘leap back’ from the fray and start a restorative walk-of self reflection. Temporarily pulling the plug on the new media could be helpful. To this point, Albert Einstein said it best:
We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.
Human nature informs us that only once someone realizes they are hurting themselves, and possibly others as well, can they find the will to heal themselves.
I believe that the extreme polarization of today’s society warrants a counterpoint response of equal intensity if to reverse the trajectory. A thoughtful medicinal dose of cannabis, based on age, weight, health profile, lifestyle, etc., can open the possibility of ‘zooming out’ to connect with unconditioned universal intelligence and get needed distance from everyday patterns of thought and behavior.
Doing this many people:
- Recognize a world outside an either/or mindset of: right/wrong, black/white, good/evil, light/dark, left/right
- Reconsider any rigid thought patterns
- Feel more connected with nature
- Recognize their emotional triggers/ narrative of blame
- Gain a sense of self-responsibility
- Realize they are not a victim
- Get a new outlook on life
- Sense being part of something larger
- Find meaning where there was none
Resilience, calm and personal impact
Dr. Catherine Panter-Brick, Anthropology professor at Yale has studied resilience and its many variables due to cultural and environmental factors. Her definition of resilience is:
Resilience is a process to harness resources to sustain well-being.
Resilience also includes: calm, going with the flow, acceptance, coping skills, capable of changing course, recovering quickly from difficulties, managing impulses, and the ability to be happy, again, after a trauma, etc. Resilience requires deliberate action and cannabis is a potential resource to harness to sustain well-being.
Once having gotten a glimpse of the wisdom imparted by medicinal cannabis (or in any other way), we can awaken from the trance of our conditioned self with new understanding and renewed mental wellness.
Renewed mental wellness spills over to how we feel physically, and how we treat others, including those with whom we don’t agree. Reconnected individuals affect their sphere of influence like a stone thrown in a pond creating concentric circles. Seeming contradictions of gender, politics and religion become irrelevant to what it means to be human.
Next – Final Step III: Normalizing wellbeing and happiness
Susan is a Certified Cannabis Educator and Practitioner and graduate of the Holistic Cannabis Academy with over 45 years of personal involvement in the spectrum of wellness modalities. Her mission today is to intervene in the noise of modern life and help her clients identify and remove stressors that trigger their dis-ease. She personalizes care plans regarding the best cannabis strain, dose and delivery system to address her client’s issue. As a non-physician coach Susan enjoys the added flexibility of also providing protocols for simple lifestyle changes to accelerate the healing process. Visit her website: LifestyleWellnessRx.comÂ
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