Today we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Lane Cawthon.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I was often sick as a child. I remember my grandmother also having health problems. My mom began learning about natural healthcare, and both my grandma and I benefited from various approaches addressing physical, energetic, and consciousness aspects ourselves and promoting harmony within them, turning our lives around. True healing involves growth, which drew me to explore more long after my symptoms resolved. To me, the exploration of my own healing and that of others offered a path to understand not only “health” but human consciousness, nature, natural systems, spiritual traditions and practices, and so much more! Being interested in all of this, my career path became clear. I became a doctor of chiropractic to offer assistance to people on their healing paths. Then I became a minister to open up the freedom to use what I’d learned beyond the scope of practice of a chiropractor to help people more as I continue to joyfully serve in this way, witnessing the miracle of healing, growth, and evolution in this life.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back, would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It’s ironic that the training for healthcare practitioners basically requires an unhealthy lifestyle. The demands of the educational process not only ask one to sacrifice a healthy balance of exercise, sleep, social activity, self-care (such as food preparation), etc., but also promote an internal imbalance in the students, driving the extreme development of the mind and attainment of knowledge to the neglect of the intuitive sensitivity and openness of the heart, a crucial asset in healing. Aided by a love of science and learning, I overcame this difficulty, but it took time to feel like I reached a human balance that better supported healing processes of those who came to me for help. Of course, aside from formal education, doing this work requires the practitioner to have the ongoing courage to face and resolve internal imbalances and come to terms with feeling discomfort associated with softening what’s rigid within. Yet the familiarity with traversing that territory is necessary in order to be a guide for others, and the journey gets easier with experience, while the rewards of walking the path make it even compelling beyond just being necessary. I’ve learned and grown so much through healing physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual disharmonies in my past that it enticingly fuels my current evolution. Being motivated by a compelling future is preferable to me to being motivated by a symptom.
As you know, we’re big fans of Conscious Embodiment Mission. For our readers who might not be as familiar, what can you tell them about the brand?
The physical body is a tangible expression of consciousness. Sometimes the consciousness that we embody is one we’re unaware of expressing or don’t consciously perceive, yet it influences our physical functions. Sometimes we want to embody a certain consciousness but find ourselves in a rut of physically habituated ways of acting or thinking which oppose that. I use training and experience gained over more than 25 years in functional neurology, functional medicine, Somato-Respiratory Integration, Taoist meditative movement practices, various bodywork approaches, and coaching to support people in experiencing more harmony and ease in their tangible and energetic bodies, providing not only therapeutic services, but wellness education to help people more effectively work with themselves. I offer individual and group sessions in person and online to support greater self-mastery and proficiency in promoting health and healthy self-expression throughout aspects of life.
We’re always looking for the lessons that can be learned in any situation, including tragic ones like the Covid-19 crisis. Are there any lessons you’ve learned that you can share?
While living in Beijing, I went on a business trip in Malaysia with a suitcase and a backpack. My last work day there, I was told my cousin died, so instead of returning home, I came to the USA to his funeral. One morning I saw that China was closing its borders, and I couldn’t return home. I got lost in the pain of what I was experiencing and lost touch with what I knew but wasn’t practicing in the moment. I lost my center and failed to use my knowledge to express mastery. After realizing that, I came back to practicing the guiding principles that I’d used in the past; I again became healthier, happier, and more consciously embodied, proactively creating in my life. I compassionately recognized that the process hadn’t been a failure, and I could release the blame and shame of my responses. It had been a way of reorienting my attention to important principles that I needed to be guided by and master using on a deeper level at that moment; I needed to integrate them more deeply into the core of my being and self-expression on different levels of life for it to improve. I needed to be flexible and grounded in truth, regardless of what I felt about it, and make the most of the moment because the future is unpredictable, remember that as long as I’m breathing, I’m still creating my life and that I’m loved and taken care of, even when I think I’m not and that both learning and remembering are two ways of bringing knowledge to the front of our awareness to act on and master, and compassionate patience with self-acceptance and self-love facilitates a much more fun journey, and that’s very important! On a practical level, learning to more effectively offer services remotely online has been pivotal for me, and the people I support, as well as focusing on educating them in using self-care tools.
Pricing:
- $45-160 depending on services offered
Contact Info:
- Instagram: Conscious_embodiment_dao
- Facebook: DFW Taiji
- Youtube: https://m.youtube.com/@consciousembodimentmission
