Naturally...

Unique Perspectives: Naturally...

By Kim Stevens

Naturally…Our bodies are designed to heal.

It’s built in. Biologically, innately, intelligently. Every cell is designed to move toward balance, vitality, and wholeness. There is a deep wisdom in our biology, an intelligence that quietly whispers, “I know what to do.”

Our natural state is health. Our natural state is love. Our natural state is joy.

That is... until we interfere.

With stress, with fear, with overthinking. With habits and beliefs that disconnect us from our essence. We do so many things, consciously and unconsciously,  to block our body’s natural inclination toward healing and our spirit’s natural pull toward joy.

But still, underneath it all, that true nature persists. Quietly. Steadily. Waiting for us to return to it. In Yoga, when we are lying in the final pose of Savasana. We are integrating all we have done in our practice. Our bodies innately know how to weave into our being everything we need. Naturally. Some say it’s the most important pose OF our practice.

I’ve been reflecting lately on what comes naturally, not just in biology, but in personality and purpose.

For me, leading comes naturally. It’s not something I try at. It just happens. It’s not that it’s easy. It's not that it’s hard…  it’s just who I am. I see the big picture, I hold space, I sense what’s needed. I can decide. I can act. It’s how I am wired.

I love watching what comes naturally for others too. It actually fascinates me. I see it so clearly in those I work with, and especially in my boys. My son Jake, for example, is naturally skilled at handling difficult client situations. He doesn't even realize how valuable that is, because to him, it’s just what he does. It’s effortless. It’s instinctive. It’s natural.

I think that’s how we were all meant to live, flowing with what’s already encoded within us.

I believe joy is our natural state. But we learn somewhere along the line that joy is frivolous. That it belongs to the naïve or the irresponsible. We trade joy for duty, intuition for logic, presence for productivity. And in doing so, we step away from what’s real.

Nature reminds me how to come home to myself. The trees don’t struggle to grow or diminish their towering. Peacocks don’t second-guess their flamboyance. Lions don’t apologize for their roar.

There’s such beauty in simply being what we already are.

And when I step outside into nature, into the woods, into the wind, into the stillness, I feel it. That innate part of me that knows how to be joyful, how to be healthy, how to be real. How to be me.

That part of me that remembers who I am…

Naturally.