8 July 2025 - Tuesday Nature’s ability for Repair and Healing Our Body Restoring Microbiome Diversity A Tz’utujiil Maya Reflection
8 July 2025 - Tuesday
Nature’s ability for Repair and Healing Our Body
Restoring Microbiome Diversity
A Tz’utujiil Maya Reflection
“I Carry the Mountain in My Breath”
A Ceremonial Introduction to Living Within Two Lands
from the Earth Remembers Series
Image above: Holds and generates this cellular light, and the heart within the person who is receiving and reflecting within this illustration in experiencing the weaving of this heart within light from everything, from anything, from everyone as a weaving within our outer nature - as a weaving within our inner nature. In a Tz’utujiil Maya way of Remembering, weaves us into our ability to live life within Kimoon K’uxlaal — the Weaving of Many into One Heart,
Nature’s ability for Repair and Healing our Body
Restoring Microbiome Diversity
A Tz’utujiil Maya Reflection
of the Great Grandmother’s Light Within Us
In the Tz’utujiil Maya way of remembering, we do not see the microbiome as merely bacteria or cells. We see it as the living weaving of the Great Grandmother’s Light within our body, the sacred community of life that remembers how to live in relationship. This is Kimoon K’uxlaal — the Weaving of Many into One Heart, reminding us that life is always lived in relationship.
When we walk upon the Earth — by the shores of Lake Atitlán, beneath the shadows of the three volcanoes, within the cloud forests — our body remembers its belonging. Our inner cellular light awakens as it touches the outer light within Nature. Every bird song, every rising mist, every scent of wildflowers and pine needles carries the breath of remembering back into our body.
Science now reveals what our elders have always known: the human body carries more diversity within its inner forests — our microbiome — than even the greatest coral reefs or rainforests. This diversity is not random; it is intelligent. It is the weaving of inner emotional intelligence, spiritual presence, and ancestral knowing held within our gut, bones, heart, and breath.
When we are stressed, angry, fearful, or trapped in the circling thoughts of Voice 1, our inner light becomes tight and the soil of our microbiome dries and cracks. The stress hormones move through the rivers of our blood, silencing the songs of life within us. But when we walk in nature, lay upon the forest floor, or breathe beneath the moonlight, the Great Grandmother’s Light moves through us once more.
We soften. We listen. We become the forest floor for Her remembering to root and grow again within us.
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Three Voices of Sleep: A Daily Example
Voice 1 (The Mind of Survival)
At night, lying on your bed, Voice 1 circles:
“What if I do not sleep enough?
What if tomorrow I fail?
Why did I say those words today?
The world is too broken for my hope.”
The muscles tighten, the stomach churns, the microbiome stiffens in fear. The cells close their tiny eyes, withdrawing their light.
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Voice 2 (The Light of Remembering)
But then, you place your hand upon your belly. You feel the quiet warmth of your gut. You listen for the soft breath of the Great Grandmother moving through your body. You remember:
“My cells are living prayers of light.
Each breath is a weaving of life into life.
I am held by the mountain,
I am cradled by the lake,
I am rooted by the forest.”
The body relaxes. The microbiome awakens its songs. Diversity returns as the inner forest grows in peace.
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Voice 3 (The Sacred Voice of Becoming)
As you fall into sleep, dreams open like dawn petals:
“I am light becoming form.
I am the dreaming of the Earth
awakening into tomorrow.”
In Voice 3, the new unknown light is woven into your cells for the day to come.
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Daily Practice with the Land: Moving and Being
1. At the Lake
Walk barefoot upon the damp sands before sunrise. Feel the water kiss your toes. Breathe in the mist that rises like prayers. Speak quietly to the bacteria within your gut:
“Remember the lake’s diversity within you.
Become as vast and peaceful as these waters.”
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2. Among the Three Volcanoes
Stand where all three volcanoes are visible. Feel their ancient presence within your spine. With each inhale, feel their grounded light descend into your microbiome. With each exhale, release your tightness, your worries, your illusions of separateness.
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3. In the Mountain Streams
Sit by the stream. Place your hands in its cold clarity. Feel its living microbiome blessing your skin. Whisper:
“Flow through me. Cleanse what no longer serves.
Awaken the waters within my cells.”
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4. Within the Cloud Forest
Enter the forest with reverence. Feel the moss, the lichen, the countless invisible beings brushing against your skin and entering your breath. Know them as your kin. Rest your back against a medicine tree of light. Feel the microbial intelligence of its bark, leaves, and roots seeding new knowing into your body.
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Cellular Light & Emotional Intelligence Reflection
Every cell is a tiny heart remembering how to love.
Each bacterium is an elder sibling carrying wisdom of transformation.
When our emotional intelligence flows in love, peace, and quiet presence, our inner microbiome blooms in beauty and diversity, just as the forest floor after rainfall.
And from this blooming, new unknown light emerges — the light of possibilities that guides our thoughts, our choices, and our becoming.
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Closing Prayer
Great Grandmother of Light,
Awaken the remembering within our cells.
May the weaving of my inner nature
and the Nature of all Life
become One Heart,
singing the beauty of the unseen
into the world once more.
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Kimoon K’uxlaal - Weaving of Many into One Heart
Restoring Microbiome Diversity
In the Tz’utujiil Maya way of remembering, we do not see the microbiome as merely bacteria or cells. We see it as the living weaving of the Great Grandmother’s Light within our body, a sacred community of life that knows how to live in relationship. This is Kimoon k’uxlaal — the Weaving of Many into One Heart, reminding us that life is always lived in relationship.
When we walk in Nature — along the volcanic slopes of Tolimán, Atitlán, and San Pedro, through the cloud forest mist, by the sacred streams flowing into the lake — our body remembers its wholeness. Our microbiome blooms with the voices of creation, awakening a cellular light that remembers its purpose: to be a vessel of interconnection, compassion, and beauty.
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The Healing Power of Nature: A Tz’utujiil Perspective
1. Birdsong
In the early dawn, as the birds sing, they awaken our inner seeds of light. Their songs weave frequencies that restore the harmony of our inner forests. Each note carries a prayer of wholeness, telling our cells:
“Remember the joy of being alive.
Open again to the Light of the Great Grandmother within you.”
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2. Water
When we sit by the streams or bathe in the lake, the waters cleanse not only our skin but also the stuck grief within our cells. Water reawakens our microbiome’s diversity, softening our gut lining, restoring flow where we have held tightness and fear.
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3. Sunlight and Moonlight
The sun’s golden threads awaken the vitality of our inner world, bringing light into the darkness of our hidden thoughts. The moonlight, in its silvery quietness, calls us to release old patterns of pain, reweaving new possibilities into our cells. Both remind us:
“You are woven from light.
Let yourself glow with what you truly are.”
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4. Forest Bathing
Science now confirms what elders have always taught: being among trees heals. The forest does not heal us from the outside in alone. It remembers us back to life from the inside out. As we breathe the scent of pine needles and earth, our stress hormones diminish. The antibiotic effect of cortisol lessens, and our microbiome’s diversity blooms again.
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5. Blue Mind
The lake’s blue expanse, like the blue sky above the mountains, brings a deep remembering to the nervous system. Its vastness tells our cells:
“You are held within an even greater stillness.
Your small griefs are waves within a vast ocean of Love.”
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The Intelligence of the Microbiome
Our elders say: “Intelligence is not only of the mind. It is of the belly, the bones, and the heart.”
Science reveals the human colon carries more biodiversity than coral reefs or rainforests. This is the inner forest of life, the place where Voice 2 (The Light of Remembering) and Voice 3 (The Sacred Voice of Becoming) dwell quietly, waiting for us to listen.
When our microbiome is diverse, our neurons transmit frequencies of creativity, compassion, and possibility. The billions of nerve endings in the gut lining listen to and speak with the microbiome. This is the ancient conversation of life within life.
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Voice 1, Voice 2, Voice 3 – The Journey of Healing in Nature
Voice 1 (The Mind of Survival)
When you walk into the forest with Voice 1 dominant, you may think:
“I am tired. I am broken. There is no time for this.
I must solve my problems.”
This voice tightens the gut, narrows vision, and closes the listening pathways of the body. The microbiome’s diversity contracts.
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Voice 2 (The Light of Remembering)
As you continue walking, you hear a woodpecker tapping, or see the sun glow upon the lake. Your chest softens. You inhale deeply, exhaling tension. You begin to feel:
“I am held by these mountains.
The trees are breathing me back to life.”
This is Voice 2 awakening: the body remembering its relationship to all life.
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Voice 3 (The Sacred Voice of Becoming)
Sitting upon a mossy rock, you close your eyes. The songs of the birds, the movement of the leaves, the scent of damp earth weave into your inner landscape. You feel:
“I am light woven of Earth’s love.
I am becoming who I truly am,
held within Kimoon k’uxlaal –
the Weaving of Many into One Heart.”
Here, new unknown light emerges, guiding your path forward not from fear or planning, but from a place of sacred stillness and creative knowing.
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Why Minds Without Compassion Disconnect Us from Nature
When we live only in Voice 1 — gathering information without embodying compassion — our microbiome contracts. We become separated from Nature’s intelligence. We may think we are “smart,” but true intelligence is cellular, relational, and compassionate.
We are here to see beauty, to proclaim it, to nourish life by loving it. When we say to a tree, “You are beautiful. Thank you,” the tree’s roots release nourishment and its cells grow stronger. Likewise, when we say to our gut, “Thank you for your life within me,” our microbiome blooms in response.
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True Compassion Begins with Grief
Unconditional love is born from grief.
The Great Grandmother teaches:
“You cannot protect that which you love forever.
All that you love will return to me.”
In grief, we feel the preciousness of life. Love and grief become one wave of remembering. This wave moves through our gut, our bones, our heart, awakening the cellular intelligence that knows:
“Life is beautiful and finite.
I will love it now with all that I am.”
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Stillness, Wonderment, and the Emerging Light
When we stop – truly stop – we allow the memory of who we are to catch up with us. We become still enough to feel the beauty of our microbiome, the radiant community within us that is always in conversation with the outer community of Nature.
From this stillness emerges Voice 2 – the vibration of beauty, compassion, and remembering, and then Voice 3 – the quiet knowing that we are part of the Great Weaving of Life.
“Stand still,
Feel your back against the Great Grandmother’s Light.
Feel the ancient mountains holding you.
Feel the water’s song moving through your blood.
Feel the birds awaken your cells.
You are a healing being of light,
woven into Kimoon K’uxlaal,
the Weaving of Many into One Heart.”
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Closing Reflection
In the Tz’utujiil Maya way, to walk upon the land is to restore the microbiome of the body, the spirit, and the world. It is to remember that Nature is not a place we visit. Nature is the Living Weaving that we are.
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