How to feel at home
When I was studying to become a Chiropractor I lived in the San Francisco bay area and would often go to Berkeley to study. I love it there, it's a hotbed of hippies, creativity & brains. It also has the best consignment stores in the world!
There's a bumper sticker from Berkeley that reads 'If you were in your body you'd be home by now'. Sadly, our cultural influences have brought most of us farther & farther from living inside our bodies and knowing our true inner self. There are tons of reasons for this, many of which fly below our conscious thinking radar, but some may be:
**the cultural fixation on youth & beauty that influences our belief that the outer is more important than the inner,
**the ability to get an instant hit by looking at our phones rather than tuning in to see what is going on inside our heart/soul/body,
**rampant addiction in all forms, a lot of which our culture deems 'normal' & OK which allows us to numb out and step away from our body,
**no longer living with natur…
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