My lymphoma didn’t disappear because I expected it to.
It disappeared after months of returning, week after week, to something my body had been missing for far too long.
The wild.
Its rhythm.
One of the foundational pillars of BioWild Psychology is BioRhythm.
Human beings are rhythmic creatures living in an increasingly rhythm-less world. For most of our history, our nervous systems synchronized with sunrise and sunset, flowing water, changing seasons, fresh air, forests, and the steady pulse of the living Earth.
Today, many of us live almost entirely inside artificial environments.
Our biology was never designed for that.
Healing doesn’t begin by forcing nature to match our schedule.
It begins when we slow down long enough for our biology to begin matching hers.
That’s what I discovered during my weekly wilderness immersions while battling lymphoma. I wasn’t trying to force a miracle. I simply kept returning. I rested. I listened. I breathed. I let the forest set the pace.
Little by little, my nervous system stopped fighting the world around it and started moving with it.
When we begin matching nature’s rhythm, nature rewards us by allowing our biology to remember what it was designed to do.
I lived it.
That’s why BioRhythm is one of the foundational pillars of BioWild Psychology.
If you’re exhausted, anxious, grieving, or simply feel disconnected from yourself, perhaps your next breakthrough doesn’t begin by doing more.
Perhaps it begins by returning to the rhythm that made you.
If you’d like me to personally guide you through this process, send me RETURN. I’d be honored to walk alongside you.
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Research: Forest bathing has been associated with increased natural killer (NK) cell activity, reduced cortisol, healthier heart-rate variability, and improved immune and psychological health (Li, 2010; Bratman et al., 2019; Twohig-Bennett & Jones, 2018).
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