🌱 To you, the A.L.I.V.E.
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| A face without fixed identity – just a living gaze, reminding us that the A.L.I.V.E. are first and foremost living beings seeking vitality beyond appearances. |
To you who
have ticked every box and yet feel extinguished.
To you whose body is suffering and few seem to understand.
To you who feel fragile, anxious, exhausted.
To you who are worn out from fighting your own body for too long.
To you who perceive the world with the clarity of your senses,
yet doubt this clarity in the face of isolation and misunderstanding.
To you who live in a world that often confuses being alive with obeying
thought under the name of performance.
This is for
you –
for those who sense that their body knows something their mind has not yet
understood.
📌 A.L.I.V.E. – who are they?
I call A.L.I.V.E.
those who, in a world built against nature, feel they have lost their
connection to it.
A.L.I.V.E.
is an acronym:
- A – Adrift: you’ve ticked all the boxes, achieved
everything, and yet you feel lost and empty.
- L – Lost in symptoms: your body is suffering and you
feel like no one really understands what it’s going through.
- I – Intense feelers: you perceive the world with
the clarity of senses, yet you doubt this clarity in the face of
misunderstanding and isolation – in
a world that often confuses being alive with obeying thought under the
name of performance.
- V – Void of energy: worn out, drained, fighting
your own body for far too long.
- E – Eager for meaning: longing for coherence, for
something that makes sense – beyond
merely obeying thought.
These are
the people who often, quite naturally, find their way to attentive medicine.
🛠 Work, development, and distrust of
nature
We live in
a world we call “developed.”
A world that would not exist without heating, air conditioning, machines,
supermarkets, or medications.
A world that has become liveable in climates where, without all these
technologies, the human body could not survive.
Yet there
are places on Earth where human life could go on almost without work:
regions with mild, stable, and fertile climates, where nature offers the
essentials for life on its own –
southern Italy, Sicily, Greece, the Azores, the Canary Islands, Madeira, or
some high plateaus of Central America and East Africa.
There, the land and climate are so generous that life could be organized in
cooperation with nature, rather than against it.
“Developed”
societies, by contrast, were built in places where nature alone cannot carry
us.
And to survive in those environments, they have had to constantly correct
nature,
building entire economic, technical, and medical systems on a foundation of distrust
toward it.
Human work
has thus become the art of forcing nature to serve human needs,
instead of living with what it offers.
🌀 The paradox: offering the intelligence of
nature in a world that distrusts it
Modern
medicine embodies this same logic applied to the body.
It sees illness as an error to be corrected.
- Conventional medicine seeks to
suppress symptoms.
- Functional medicine seeks to
correct faulty functions.
- Integrative medicine combines
different corrections.
They all
share the same underlying assumption:
nature has
made a mistake,
and the human being – who no longer sees
themselves as nature – must correct it.
In such a
world, saying that intelligence lies in nature – of which humans are a part – and not in the thought to which Homo sapiens
has become identified
makes it seem paradoxical to even practise medicine.
What, then,
would its role be?
🌿 What attentive medicine offers
Attentive
medicine starts from the opposite premise:
The only
intelligence is that of creation – and
thus of nature, of which humans are a part.
Symptoms
are also expressions of this intelligence of nature.
The loss of vitality that comes with illness reveals a vital relationship
that has been altered or broken.
Illness is
not a failure.
It is a search for balance.
It asks us:
“Which
living relationship have you stopped honouring?”
And the
first sign of this break is neither pain nor biological markers –
it is the loss of vitality.
The withdrawal of the living impulse.
✧ Alongside conventional medicine
I practise
attentive medicine alongside conventional medicine.
Conventional medicine has an essential role:
it acts in emergencies, saves lives, relieves unbearable pain, and helps
control certain serious illnesses through medication.
But when a
bodily change does not endanger life,
when it develops slowly,
or once medication has stabilised or controlled it,
it seems absurd to me not to try to understand what nature is expressing.
Because
even when it seems to trouble us, nature is not wrong –
it is always trying to restore balance.
✧ Restoring vitality, not correcting
the body
Health is
not a return to a “normal” state,
nor the absence of symptoms,
nor performance.
For me,
health is this:
to recover
the living rightness of our relationships – to ourselves, to others, to the world –
by recognising that the loss of vitality in illness signals a broken vital
relationship.
If and when
this rightness returns, vitality returns.
And when vitality returns, nature finds a new balance on its own.
🌱 A medicine of reconciliation
Attentive
medicine is not a medicine of struggle.
It is a medicine of reconciliation with nature.
It does not
correct.
It does not prescribe.
It listens.
Because we
do not correct nature.
We stop resisting it – and then it
leads us back to its rightness.
🌿 Ready to take the first step?
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