{Connect Medicines}

Gather your friends for a crowd-sourced meal. Everyone dresses up as their ancestors and brings dishes their ancestors would have eaten.

Walk out of your house with no goals and no idea of where you are going. Let your improvisational impulses guide you.

There is so much we don’t know about each other. Ask questions, and find out more about even your closest beloveds. Game-ify it! Get a group of people together to learn more about each other and cultivate deeper intimacies.

Make a new habit of starting conversations with people in your building, on the street, in stores, and anywhere. Help people whenever you feel the impulse to do that and when others consent to accepting your help.

Is connection a border zone of uncertainty and discomfort for you? Let yourself out in small drops, like water dripping on stone. Start with what’s easiest. Over time, you will build more confidence and feel more at home in the world.

Spend a whole day or two not saying anything self-defining. Don’t share your opinions, convictions, likes or dislikes. Don’t tell the stories you always tell to let people know who you are. Surprisingly, this make space for greater intimacy.

We live in an infinite mandala of beings and bodies. Talk to animals, ancestors, plants, the sky, deities, rocks, rivers, fire, water, the earth and the moon. Make offerings to all that guides you and brings you solace or even joy. And then listen for the response in your own heart.

Gather to sing. Singing with others puts us directly in touch with the vitality, joy, intelligence, and generosity inherent in reality. Boundaries are softened, and we remember our capacity for peaceful collaboration.

Eat each of the six tastes at least once each day: sweet, salty, sour, pungent, bitter, and astringent. This regulates your digestion and reconnects your to the subtle wisdom of the five elements.