Through learning the daily skills of mindfulness practices, through great nutrition and through releasing trauma, our nervous systems get out of cell danger response, they unfreeze, stop fighting or running, and become available to assist the immune system to fight pathogens.

The buzzword on the lips of all cutting-edge scientists the world over at the moment, from doctors to biochemists to enlightened therapists, is “inflammation”. The most promising current research is talking about harnessing this power of our innate ability to heal from within to reverse even auto-immunity, cancer, heart-disease, diabetes, arthritis, chronic stress and other difficult conditions.

The current pandemic is calling our attention through a global crisis to find new solutions deep within ourselves. To limit the damage of this pandemic, and to be able to meet other new and future health challenges, we need to look after our immune systems. In doing this, we help our loved ones and communities to do the same. Being the change we want to see in the world, by healing ourselves and then witnessing the ripple effect out from this one, this new me. This me, as I heal myself, is the most powerful tool i have.

Immunity lives within each individual cell, within all of the body’s systems, but also in our relationships, our finances, our spiritual connectivity, our intellectual health, our emotional wellbeing and in our environment. When we learn to sit with all parts of ourselves, when we touch all parts with listening and compassion, new possibilities open up.

Our primary focus at High Hopes this summer is to help you to safeguard both your immediate and your long-term immunity. We do this by walking with you into gentle, powerful and loving daily habits through our comprehensive healing programmes. A primary focus in our year ahead at High Hopes is on harnessing your brain’s natural neuro-plasticity for effective change. One of the core ways we do this is by healing a maladaptive stress response within your own nervous system. Nutrition also plays a major role, along with nature and specific healing modalities.

Setting yourself on a path of calm and ease is like getting an inner trust fund which you can draw on for your whole life. This is something that we can each learn. But first, as teacher Jack Kornfield so skilfully puts it, “we have to be present to win”. It is our deep joy to help you win.