Possible Worlds

What is the natural health paradigm? It's a way of looking at health that has been quickly spreading over the last few decades. It involves taking responsibility for one's own health choices, using your intuition as well as logic and relying as much as possible on natural solutions. This can mean exercise, meditation, supplements such as vitamins, minerals and herbs and any number of both ancient and modern systems for maintaining and increasing health, energy and well being.

There are more and more resources available for people on this path. Sometimes all of the information is confusing, as there is so much of it and it is sometimes inconsistent. As with anything, you have to do your own research and try things out for yourself.

I think that the most important aspect of what I'm calling the natural health paradigm is the belief in freedom to follow your own path. This requires a certain amount of trust in yourself and your own intuition. For if you put all of your trust in experts or authorities, even "alternative" ones, you are still following the old paradigm. I'm not recommending that you throw away all of your beliefs (or medicines or whatever you may be using or doing right now), but that you explore alternatives at your own pace.

For some resources and information on this exciting movement, check out my other Squidoo lens, New Health Trends!

Liminal refers to things, ideas, experiences or events on the border or threshold -or something that is emerging. It was originally used by anthropologists to describe times or places, as in rituals, that focused on "in between" states, as in a ceremony where a child is initiated into adulthood.

The liminal is an important aspect of the possible. To be able to manifest the possible worlds of our choosing, it can be helpful to recognize the liminal, which are often hard to see at first glance.

Liminal Worlds

A "meme" is a cultural trend, custom or habit. It can be something good or bad, important or trivial. Popular culture, racism, nationalism, languages and religions are all arguably memes.

The "abundance meme" is the idea that abundance consciousness can spread in a similar manner. This will take some change in the way many of us think. For one thing, it means we have to take responsibility for our lives and not look to outer realities like "the economy" so much. The abundance meme will most likely not be spread by the mainstream media. Rather, it will have to be a grassroots movement.

For more about this, go to: Abundance Meme Project