The truths I’ve discovered since embracing my the barefoot journey.

Each step of my journey facilitated by Vivobarefoot, I discovered how human movement is not just part of our experience but it in fact shapes us and the world.

The need to connect with nature is necessary and in doing so we see we are nature as anything else and nature reminds us of many things that books and discourse cannot teach. Our connection with the beauty and complexity of nature allows our important communication to the flow of conscious and unconscious experience and to something we must feel humble to.  To something we cannot understand or control and would be best if we didn't try. 

The process of connection with our nature through ambulation is more than a need to move formed by the laws of entropy but is a manifestation of our natural psychological need to be in the complexity of life that we require to thrive.

It is very important we recognise that we are born into total dependency as we only are alive because we are a compendium of other species and it is mutual dependency that has defined human ethics, because always we have been or about to become dependent upon others.  The fruits of our cultural system is utterly hand woven into the worlds ecosystem. We can only gain that knowing by directly experiencing and developing a deep connection with the nature around us and recognising it as us, our home and that the consequences of our actions upon it are profound.

95% of human history has seen us in right relationship as egalitarian hunter gathers. 99% of that history was before the industrial revolution where we were intimately involved with nature on a daily basis.  Our neurophysiology developed in that very different time and certain needs and expectations were born out of that. Our consciousness developed in a very particular environment where to scan for predators, look for food, live in small foraging communities were prime. This was at time when there was no false dichotomy and the alchemy of attention was designed to activate something in relation to reciprocity and sharing because that meant our survival within the community. We are living in a time that our consciousness has not experienced and while we are remarkably adaptable there are certain costs to living as we do now.

We are constantly rewiring through our neural circuits a particular type of consciousness born our of experience and if nature is not by enlarge featuring, our sense of requirement is thus denuded. Consequently it means simply we don’t feel the need to have nature in our lives and because of that result it physically becomes less so.

Ways of drawing us back from a precipice of neglect are required now more than ever and the bodies ability to sense the patterns of nature will be crucial in us knowing how to move with the balance and speed required to navigate our futures precarious paths.   We feel we get what we need to be human through the vicarious experience of digital worlds but this is a forsaking of our evolution and what our actual needs are to be full of the story of humanity  and find our place in this life and we deny that at our peril.

Its is no mean feet to step away from the irresistible allure of modernities bright lights but for the health of our self, communities and planet we must see and feel our relationship back into the web of life that our ecosystems require.  As the issue for humanity is that as a species we cannot survive alone, we are a compendium of other species, we are the embodiment of nature both internally and culturally.

We feel our nature by experiencing it daily and for myself, my family and patients I have incorporated nature into the physical and psychological healing processes. This incorporation of ourselves by physical contact, acceptance of who we are and what we actually need is enhanced by every step of the journey that Vivobarefoot facilitates. By really being in the place that gives us healing, knowledge, compassion, purpose and where the experience of a sublime states allows a gateway into deeper connections. This community with the natural world is our way to flourish and hopefully this will be mirrored in our desire to reciprocate its generosity by evolving humanities relationships with humans and non human worlds alike and to become a grateful species in reverence to the limits of our planet.

There is a powerful sensory connection between the feet and the brain and thus, our movement and place in the world. A Vivobarefoot shoe reconnects you to the world around you, literally bringing you closer to nature.

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