Building community is extraordinarily beneficial to the continued growth of future generations. A healthy social culture provides stability while assuring the inheritance of important aesthetics and habits.
There is an unfortunately short supply of community in America. Our culture has grown to support the "individual" in a way that denies self-expression; our people are encouraged to purchase style without substance or quality, and slowly killing connections between strangers while choking the trust and respect out of our most basic everyday relationships.
It is worrying that Traditional Chinese Medicine, historically the result of a practitioner treating generations within a community, now an industry where 90% of U.S. practitioners are flying solo, unable to support innovation or adaptation.
We cannot survive if this continues. If you consider our industry a living entity, it is barely thriving. Yes, TCM has survived 2000 years, but it will only exist in a state of struggle if we do not develop the appropriate organs for accessing our innate intuition. It needs to be able to adapt to the paradigm and that means growing organizations; fueling those organizations with our support (re: money); and continuing to diversify and educate our consumers.
We need something that combines a sense of community with the adaptable nature of our human intuition. This is my motivation for the Traditional Herbal Cooperative.
There is an unfortunately short supply of community in America. Our culture has grown to support the "individual" in a way that denies self-expression; our people are encouraged to purchase style without substance or quality, and slowly killing connections between strangers while choking the trust and respect out of our most basic everyday relationships.
It is worrying that Traditional Chinese Medicine, historically the result of a practitioner treating generations within a community, now an industry where 90% of U.S. practitioners are flying solo, unable to support innovation or adaptation.
We cannot survive if this continues. If you consider our industry a living entity, it is barely thriving. Yes, TCM has survived 2000 years, but it will only exist in a state of struggle if we do not develop the appropriate organs for accessing our innate intuition. It needs to be able to adapt to the paradigm and that means growing organizations; fueling those organizations with our support (re: money); and continuing to diversify and educate our consumers.
We need something that combines a sense of community with the adaptable nature of our human intuition. This is my motivation for the Traditional Herbal Cooperative.
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