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Democratic Health Images

Imagine your healthiest body is a democratic self/other empowering organism Ideally, most nutritionally, nurtured by an also open, living, dynamic win/win preferential, evolving, revolving planetary universe, in many sacred times and places also known as MotherEarth. Notice your democratic bodymind is an open holistic ego/eco-centering co-invested re-centering, co-acclimating interior and exterior bilaterally systemic infrastructure for democratic health, rooted in mutual trust. If your brain is in charge, this is a democratic charge, a coordinating complexly inter-communicating organic whole system responsibility, leaving no individual organ or health function irresponsibly behind. Not an autocratic, from above, hierarchically patriarchal, capitalistic head-mind over felt-body matter, unilateral authority capable of long-term win for leftbrain dominant mind only at the cost of a lose for rightbrain democratic organic interdependently felt nature/spirit body/mind bicameral communion intelligence Bilaterally ego/eco communing communication looking for win/win neurological whole system democratic resolution of health issues, pathologically autocratic cancers, cognitive/affective predations, viral dissonance, rabid and rogue behaviors, win/lose anthropocentric ego-inflations, lose/lose terrors and global humiliations, rather than win/win wonders and sacred awe of Earth's resiliently healthy democratic regenerativity. Now, recall important political statements influencing your own development: A family is not a democracy. A classroom is not a democracy. Both implied "should not be" statements almost certainly true in your own predominant civil empowerment/disempowerment formative experience, Embracing win/lose either-me/or-you competitions between empowered teachers and preachers and not yet mature and experienced sometimes you win, usually you don't, children and adolescents and young adults, Many of whom, especially those poorer and darker, will graduate into military-industrializing subcultures, where patriarchal leftbrain dominant autocracy of commanders over enslaved and rented both/and repowering bodies become reduced to untrusting tools and win/lose high risk strategic weapons. These young left-brain autocratic adults will certainly not be gathering rich Trust experience in democratic dialogue over autocratic debate about the weakness of win/win EarthJustice restoring democracy. So, is it possible to hear? Families, like competitive classrooms, intending young life healthy empowerment, often autocratically disempower An economic and political warning; A challenge to overcome not-yet mature democracy rooted in experience of robust cooperative Trust, rather than an unintended civics lesson in rabid leftbrain dominant autocracy, as if capitalism were patriarchally inevitable as racial and sexist and homophobic and xenophobic and anthropocentric apartheid. As if mutually mistrusting competition for individual investment power were democratically healthier than win/win cooperative models for shared mind/body spirit/nature sacred/secular eco/ego-systemic positive evolutionary wealth, Resonant trust, resilient love, compassion Imagining our healthiest bodies on our wealthiest days within ecological co-relational systems are democratic self/other empowering Earth responsible co-responsive win/win organisms non-violently communicating advocates for multiculturally intelligent restorative EarthPeace and Local Community EcoJustice.

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