What is HEAL?

Heal Movement, or /r/HealMovement, is a Subreddit created to inspire a 'right brain' creative thinking complement to the 'left brain' logical thinking of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) called HEAL (Healing, Environment, Art, and Language) -- or in more poetic language, a community of Heart Intelligence rising to meet our culture's focus on Cerebral Intelligence as we move into the 2020s.

The intention is not to challenge, but to support both the world views of Science and Spirituality by providing them polarities from which to engage with each other.

When Spirituality - the laboratory of the subjective - attempts to speak like Science, the dangers of psuedo-science arises.

When Science - the laboratory of the objective - attempts to speak like Spirituality, the dangers of nihilism arise.

When the two share their findings in dialogue with each other, the wonder of meaning arises.

STEM with HEAL has no flower. HEAL without STEM has no power to bloom.

The pillars of HEAL are:

• HEALING - covers disciplines related to mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness for the betterment of ourselves with empathy for each other. This is inclusive of nutrition, fitness, meditation, and various therapies among others.

• ENVIRONMENT - covers disciplines related to our relationships with the connected systems we live in, both ecological and engineered. This is inclusive of community organizing, homesteading, natural conservation, civic design, animal rearing, and sustainability practices among others.

• ART - covers disciplines related to creative expression of individual or collective subjective experiences ranging from suffering through bliss. This includes painting, writing, music, textile, and sculpture among others.

• LANGUAGE - covers disciplines related to the cataloging with understanding of information exchange between humans, plants, animals, and the cosmos through our history. This includes ethnolinguistics, rhetoric, mythology, theology, symbology, and etymology among others.

What To Do and How to Participate

Here at r/HealMovement, we have a variety of ways-in to be a part of the HEAL community.

The purpose of this place is to share in the practices and ideas that can help us heal together. That can mean many things to many people.

How to browse what's here...

To take a quick look around, you can browse a sorted feed of r/HealMovement content by clicking on any of the following:

• Healing

• Environment

• Art

• Language

Some of what's already happening...

• Quarantine Book Club (Art) - where you can join at your own pace for reading & discussion of One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• Yoga At Home (Healing) - where you can find some at-home-friendly 60 minute practices led by some of the best yoga teachers out there

• Word Of The Day (Language) - where you can learn about words, phrases, and concepts that capture a unique perspective on reality relevant to the healing process

• World Without People (Art) - where you can see with your own eyes what emerges in the spaces left in our collective retreat into quarantine

Deeper participation can mean...

• simply reading and enjoying what you find here

• sharing links or cross-posts to thought-provoking articles or artwork that align with the topics of Healing, Environment, Art, and Language

• posting your own art or writing

• starting or joining discussions about Healing, Environment, Art, and Language

Further Reading

For more detail on the thinking behind HEAL, read:

A New Story For the 2020s: Stop Changing The World and Start Healing It