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the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems that have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natu- ral ecosystems. It calls for harmonious integration of landscape and people to create a regenerative system, one that nourishes itself to maintain homeostasis. A study of permaculture tells us that diversity alone is not enough. For any system to achieve resilience and health, meaningful connections must exist between the diverse elements of the system. This stability principle, as it’s known, is as applicable to humans as it is to a garden. As a whole system, the body mirrors the principles of permacul- ture. A guild in permaculture is a combination of plants, animals, in- sects, and fungi that functions through collaboration. Similarly, the body is a blend of water, bones, organs, and bacteria working together. Each element contributes something valuable to the composition of the guild or body. For example, fungi recycle plants after they die and transform them into rich soil. If not for mushrooms, the Earth would be buried in debris and life would soon disappear. By the same token, the bacteria in our bodies digest food to produce waste. This waste nourishes the same soil that returns our food to us. Anatomy and its concomitant medical disciplines would like to di- vide the body into its parts and examine them separately. The word anatomy comes from the Greek tomia , “to cut,” and ana , “up.” Anat- omy is based on dissection, whereas somatics, the study of the body as a complex relationship between cells, comes from the Greek soma , “body.” When we look at the body somatically instead of anatomically, we can see that we are complex beings, part of nature, and as much interconnected in ourselves as we are to our environment. By aligning our bodies with the Earth’s body, we can maintain the connections necessary to thrive and let our healing also become the Earth’s healing. Since these systems are always changing, it is import - ant to observe both seasonal changes and internal physical shifts so that we can respond to them. We can turn to centuries-old systems of using food as medicine as our guides to help us live with the flexibility that allows for resiliency. Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, and the Mediterranean way, among other traditions, all ascribe to the principle of “as within, so without.” They recognize the connections between body, mind, and spirit and the time, seasons, age, life circumstances, and interrelationships be- tween these factors. Lisa Masé is a board certified holistic nutritionist (BCHN) and a registered health and nutrition coach (RHNC) as well as an herbalist, intuitive eating coach, food sov - ereignty activist, and poet. The founder of Harmonized Living, a wellness coaching practice, Lisa lives on unceded Abenaki land in Montpelier, Vermont. www.harmo - nized-living.com/ This article is excerpted from The Culinary Pharmacy by Lisa Masé© 2023 Healing Arts Press. Printed with permission from the publisher Inner Traditions International. www.InnerTraditions.com
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