Biomimicry – Using Nature’s Principles to Heal

I have been doing this for years without knowing its name. I mimic Mother Nature every day to regulate my nervous system, process my trauma, restore my true self, and build my values and beliefs. She is my mentor in every way possible, and it works.

I speak about this principle in my YouTube channel – Return to Matriarchy, and my blog on feminism. I just didn’t know what it was called.

Biomimicry is emulating nature’s principles to restore the innate state of who we are before we were harmed by trauma or conditioned by social norms. We are her in human form.

It has healed me better than any other method.

Biomimicry’s Principles

Balanced Ecosystems

All elements in nature (earth, water, air, fire, spirit) and all life forms (plants, animals, bacteria, fungi, etc.) work together in balance to ensure sustainability. When one exceeds status for too long, nature changes its landscape to adapt. Destruction may arise during this shift, and life could be altered dramatically.

Health and trauma are the same. Our bodies are designed to maintain homeostasis, but something out of place can cause change. Trauma affects our ability to function to a point where we adapt to pure survival instead of vitality. We can become deserts instead of lush forests where we still have life but not in abundance.

Healing is restoring our inner ecosystem.

Acts of Sustainability

Nature cycles its energy through abundance and deficiencies. From spring blooms to winter hibernations, daylight and dark, birth and death, and a calm breeze to storms, nature understands the ups and downs of energy.

Our energy is the same. We are meant to cycle between work and rest, play and sleep, exploration and sitting still. We become sick and stressed when we do too much of one thing and are lacking in another. Our world loves to keep us producing, but nothing in nature works that way.

Healing is learning how to recognize our inner cycles and follow them accordingly.

Value Based

Nature fits form to function. The value of practical functioning proceeds beauty aesthetics – substance is key. Our society will produce and reproduce with profit in mind without concern for how it affects our people’s functioning and the community’s roots. The beauty industry gaslights everyone into false beliefs of image at the expense of their health.

When we strive for perfection or excess of consumption or beauty without achieving substantial inner values and stability, we lose the ability to function. We rely on drugs and addiction to keep us going instead of securing our basic needs and health. Trauma does not have to be something big, it can be as simple as not attending to our values and inner foundations.

Neglect of self-care is trauma. It often comes from the conditioning from our youth or poor relationships where we were neglected. We internalize it and keep sabotaging ourselves in the name of achievement. Our modern world lives on us neglecting ourselves.

Healing is returning to our core values that nourish us.

Attunement

Wild animals have excellent survival instincts. They use their senses to monitor their surroundings and find food. They also shake off their fight-or-flight responses to release them from their bodies and return to baseline. Thus, they are constantly attuned to their bodies’ messages and environment.

We have the same ability but have lost it through modern technology. We also lose it when we have been harmed and are unable to shake it off and return to baseline. That survival energy stays with us and creates havoc within. Our senses shut off, and we run on fight and flight instead.

Healing is returning to our senses and body’s messages so we can finally remove the pent-up survival energy.

Practices with mother nature to regulate our nervous system

I have created worksheets with Biomimicry principles. When I made these, I used my experience with Mother Nature to heal and regulate. Now, I can say they follow Biomimicry. Check them out here:

More about Biomimicry

Biomimicry is often used in architectural design. It can also be applied to other life models, such as healthcare, education, and healing trauma. The principles stand across all genres.

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