Walking the Andean Medicine path

For me, walking the Andean Medicine path means:

Choosing to walk in the light. Choosing to follow the heart. Choosing LOVE. Choosing JOY. Choosing to live The Beauty Way.

Choosing to walk in the light might sound like taking the ‘easy’ way, or that it’s bypassing or denying darkness, disquiet, and disruption within ourselves and in the world. But actually, choosing to walk this path and choosing to live from the heart is not always easy and it takes courage and commitment. Part of the beauty of it is that it denies nothing - it’s a way of living in our wholeness…of touching, feeling, knowing, owning, and loving every part of who we are and the world we live in.

When we can truly say that we choose to walk in our light, it’s not because we deny the darkness, but because we have been willing to descend into it so we can make it part of us again.

Walking in our light, cultivating joy, following our heart - this is medicine that’s been forged in the flames. It’s the medicine that is revealed to us when we live a life committed to self-discovery and to saying yes to the unknown. The medicine that we become when we allow ourselves to embrace the full spectrum of the human experience. It comes from peeling away our layers, patiently and gently one by one, to reveal the golden, luminous treasure that has always been there at the centre of it all. We then embody this essence so we can bring that light into the world and share it with others. This is the journey of reclaiming our truth of who we have always been, and awakening our medicine.

Do I still feel pain? Most definitely.
Do I stumble? Almost daily! Do I still have challenges to overcome? Yes. Yes. Yes.
Do I come up against resistance from others? Mmm hmmm. And sometimes from those I’d most hoped would have my back.
Do I have all the answers? Probably less than I ever did, thankfully. Do I ever feel afraid? Absolutely. But I choose to trust I will find my way.

Disruption is inevitable. It is part of our lived human experience. But after years (actually decades) of walking the ‘medicine path’, of unravelling and rearranging, of stumbling, falling, rising, of making peace with my past, of being taken to the very edge and being stripped bare, of digging deeper than I ever thought possible to find the strength and courage I needed, of dying and being reborn, of discovering what it means to trust…to lean in…

I say with all my heart:

I choose to walk in my light. I choose to follow my heart. I choose LOVE. I choose JOY. I choose to live The Beauty Way.

Walking in the living energy. This is the way of the Andean medicine path. And it is my path too. What’s yours?