The Flow of Life: Healing Beyond a Mechanical Model

When we observe the stream of time, we see that everything unfolds in one direction. A flower emerging into the morning light cannot be folded back into its bud, just as an embryo forming into a human body cannot return to a single cell. This is self-evident, yet when faced with sickness or disease, we often forget. Consciously or unconsciously, we long to return to a state we once knew, as if health were something to retrieve rather than something to evolve into.

It is easy to see the body as a machine—something that is supposed to function a certain way, and when it doesn’t, we assume it must be fixed. But this assumption rests on a mechanical understanding of life, one that suggests healing is about restoring the past rather than moving toward the future.

Yet we are undeniably flowing forward. The health we seek exists ahead of us, not behind. Many find themselves feeling stuck, unable to move toward that unfolding, and in doing so, they inhibit the natural intelligence of consciousness—its ability to flow in the direction it was always meant to.

In an evolutionary biodynamic approach to healing, we do not seek forces that return a person to their original state. Instead, we listen for the forces that are guiding them toward their intended unfolding, toward the blueprint that has always been within them. In every challenge, there is a longing; in every disruption, an offering. Within chaos, there is a hidden order. It is only because we do not know how we are meant to blossom that we reach for familiar patterns from the past, hoping to anchor ourselves in what is known.

But look at a flower blooming—no intervention can dictate its unfolding. It is only through witnessing that we come closest to understanding. And that witnessing, that deep listening, is an act of being rather than doing. The forces that shape an embryo—the same forces that sculpt life into matter—are inseparable from consciousness itself.

Many healing traditions speak of oneness and wholeness, yet they often break the body down into fragments, satisfying the mind’s need for control through techniques, anatomical models, and structured methodologies. But nature does not create through linear processes. Nature is not mechanical; it is emergent, fluid, unknowable. All life arises not from rigid structures, but from the vast, creative emptiness from which matter itself is born.

Set aside everything you know. Strip away science, theories, techniques. Simply observe an embryo—a delicate form unfolding within the fluid that once cradled us all. A space, a shell, a container, a home. Within the drop of water that holds it, there is already the image of all it will become—a blueprint encoded within, requiring nothing but time and the right conditions to unfold.

Who are we to impose a “perfect image” of health or wholeness? Who are we to judge whether a present state of chaos is not, in fact, precisely what was meant to be? Who are we to believe we can fully grasp the mystery of creation?

Let your mind sink into your body. Listen to the teacher that is always present, within and without—the universal intelligence of nature, whispering its unfolding in every moment.