The Good mEdicine Roadmap

The embodiment of true health is when body, mind and spirit are working together in harmony and in balance. When you address and heal the nervous system you are also healing the emotional body, when you heal the emotional body you are also healing the psychic body. When you heal the psychic body you heal and elevate your vibration. Once you have healed your vibration realities shift.

Reclaim Your Sovereignty

addressing the body 

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Understanding Anxiety as Energy 

Anxiety is not just a thought pattern or a chemical reaction. It is an energetic current that moves through the body, carrying shape, texture, and rhythm. For you, Azi, this current does not stay rooted in one center. Instead, it circulates; weaving through your throat, your heart, your stomach, your lower chakras, and even into your head. That movement is why it feels so overwhelming: because it refuses to stay still, it keeps you searching for where it began and why it is there.

Anxiety often feels like a roaming geometry. Sometimes it presses at the throat and makes words hard to find. Sometimes it contracts the heart and makes it difficult to feel open or safe. At other times it churns in the stomach, twisting choice into confusion, or it pulls at the pelvis, bringing a sense of disconnection from ground and belonging. Even the ache in the head is part of this pattern; the mind straining to translate a current that does not belong only to the mind.

When energy moves in this way, it creates sensations of not knowing where to place yourself. That’s why anxiety can feel like a cloud of “what ifs” or a hum that won’t stop. It is not one clear voice. It is many small voices speaking at once, in many places at once. This is not weakness. It is simply the way your nervous system is carrying unprocessed information, trying to keep you safe by staying alert in all directions.

From the oracle’s seat, anxiety is understood as a signal, not an enemy. It is the body’s way of saying: “There are patterns here that have not been seen, there are places inside that still want witness.” That is why it travels, why it doesn’t stay in one chakra. Each part of the body is holding a fragment of the message.

When you experience anxiety, you may notice it as tightness, restlessness, shallow breath, a racing heart, or a looping thought pattern. These are not random. They are the geometry of energy that hasn’t yet found resolution. The more you can learn to recognize these shapes in your body, the less mysterious they become. Anxiety, then, is not a fog but a map.

This is the beginning of the work: to see anxiety not as a monster to be silenced but as a current to be decoded. By understanding that it is an energetic pattern, one that moves, shifts, and circulates through different centers, you gain the first layer of clarity. Anxiety is movement without anchor. Once you know that, you can begin to gently guide it back toward steadiness.

Foundational Sovereignty Scan

& Identifying Cords of Attachment

What is a sovereignty scan?

A sovereignty scan is a short, gentle check-in that helps you remember you own your energy. It is a way to pause, locate where sensation lives in the body, and name what is present without immediately changing it. The purpose is clarity. When you can name where energy sits, you regain choice about how to respond to it. This is not a ritual of ‘fixing’. It is a practice of seeing and claiming. Before we can move energy, we have to understand it.

What are energetic cords of attachment?

Energetic cords are felt connections between you and another person, place, memory, or pattern. They look like threads in your inner field that pull your attention and nervous system outward. Cords are not inherently bad. They can carry love, obligation, fear, or old agreements. The point of this early work is to identify which cords are active, where they attach in your body, what emotion they carry, and whether they are serving your highest good. We are not cutting anything yet. We are only mapping.

How anxiety and cords show up

From your intake, anxiety moves through the throat, the heart, the belly, the lower chakras, and into your head. That roaming quality is a clue. The anxiety has no single root because it is carrying many threads. Some of those threads will anchor in speech and truth in the throat. Some will anchor in belonging and grief in the heart. Some will anchor in choice and digestion in the belly. Others will live in safety and rootedness in the pelvis. The headache signals the thinking mind trying to translate a message that is mostly somatic.

A short sovereignty scan practice (5–10 minutes)

Do this daily or when anxiety peaks. Keep a notebook nearby.

1. Settle and breathe
Sit with both feet on the floor if possible. Close your eyes or soften your gaze. Take three slow inhales and full exhales. Allow the body to arrive.

2. Ground the body
Place one or both hands on your belly or over your low pelvis for 30 seconds. Feel weight and contact. Name silently: I am here. I belong to myself.

3. Body map check (slow)
Turn your attention through these zones, spending 20–30 seconds at each point. Notice sensation, shape, temperature, tone, or image. Do not fix; only observe and name.

  • Throat: tightness, pressure, muffled words

  • Heart/chest: heaviness, openness, smallness, vibration

  • Belly/solar plexus: churning, tightening, nausea, flutter

  • Pelvis/base: sinking, floating, anchoring, coldness

  • Head: pressure, fog, throb, clarity

4. Name the cord to follow the thread
When you find a charged place, ask silently and simply:

  • Who or what is most present when this tightness shows up?

  • When did this first feel familiar? (a memory, a person, a season)

  • What does this want me to know?
    Spend a breath or two allowing an image, name, or memory to surface. Write down the word or phrase that appears.

5. Check for origin and trigger
With that word or image in mind, ask:

  • Is this currently being triggered by someone in my life? If yes, name them.

  • Does this cord serve my highest and best now? (Yes or No)
    Record quick answers in the notebook.

  • Example entry: “Throat tightness..happens when I avoid saying no… I was triggered by so and so’s tone, does it serve me? no.”6. Anchor with a simple sensory reset
    After naming, take five slow breaths with a finger pressed gently to the spot you scanned. Breathe into the area for three counts in and four counts out. Tell yourself: I can feel this and I am not lost in it.

Quick journaling prompts for after the scan:

  • Where did the strongest sensation live?

  • What name or image came up when I asked who or what is present?

  • When was the earliest time I felt something like this?

  • Who in my life currently mirrors this pattern?

  • Is this cord supporting my life now? Why or why not?

Place your feet firm on the ground & Breathe slow. Do not let the noise scatter you, stand as I Stand, steady and unshaken. Trust the Earth beneath you; she will carry your weight as she has always carried mine.

-Elephant Medicine

Releasing The Smoke Imprint 

Cannabis is a beautiful plant ally. It softens edges, opens channels, and can bring insight or comfort. It has likely supported you in meaningful ways before. But for you right now, Azi, this medicine is no longer landing as steadying. Instead, it’s amplifying the very currents of anxiety you are trying to calm.

This is not because you did anything wrong. It is not because the plant is “bad” or you are flawed. It’s simply the chapter your body is in. Cannabis naturally opens the energetic field. When the root is strong and steady, that opening can feel expansive and creative. But when your baseline is scattered, as your anxiety pattern shows, the open channel becomes too much to integrate. Instead of calm, the body receives overwhelm.

What happens is that the limbic system (the part of your brain wired to detect threat) interprets this flood as danger. It launches into fight or flight. The racing thoughts, shakiness, fog, or desire to withdraw aren’t failure. They’re your nervous system doing its best to manage an experience it doesn’t currently have the anchors to hold.

Why this is common for empaths and sensitives

For people who are empathic, intuitive, or highly sensitive, cannabis often amplifies what’s already present in the field. If the body is ungrounded, cannabis magnifies that ungroundedness. If the body is steady, it magnifies that steadiness. Right now, with your energy moving between throat, heart, belly, pelvis, and head, cannabis opens the door to even more input than your system can process. That openness also makes it easier to feel drained by, or exposed to, lower vibrations that don’t serve your highest good.

Naming the smoke imprint

Over time, the body builds a “smoke imprint;” an energetic and somatic habit of turning to cannabis as a regulator. At first, it can feel like shelter. But when it becomes the main way the nervous system tries to find safety, the very thing that once soothed can start to deepen the fog or scatter the focus. Recognizing this imprint is the first step to changing it.

Steps for releasing the smoke imprint

  1. Name without shame
    Say quietly or write: This plant helped me then. Now my body needs something different. Naming reduces secrecy and restores choice.

  2. Introduce a pause before use
    Before lighting or inhaling, place both feet on the ground, breathe slowly three times, and ask: Am I seeking connection, creativity, or avoidance? If avoidance, delay by 10–20 minutes and try a grounding micro-practice first.

  3. Ground before opening
    If you do use, begin with a 90-second grounding: feet wide, knees soft, inhale for 3, exhale for 5, hands on the low belly. This helps contain the field before it opens.

  4. Contain after use
    If you feel foggy or anxious afterward, do a reset: hydrate, step outside and stomp your feet for 30 seconds, splash cool water on your face or neck, then lie down with your hands on your low belly for two minutes.

  5. Experiment with short breaks
    Try 48 or 72 hours without smoking. Notice your sleep, focus, and anxiety levels morning and night. Jot down observations in a simple log: date, hours sober, morning anxiety score, evening anxiety score, and one sentence of notes. This is data, not judgment.

Reflection prompts

  • When did I first find comfort in smoking?

  • What am I usually trying to avoid when I want to smoke now?

  • After I smoke, how does my body actually feel compared to before?

  • Does this help me take the next small step, or does it postpone it?

  • If cannabis could still be an ally for me in the future, what would need to change in my body or field for that to feel safe again?

What this is not

This is not a demand to quit or a judgment about using. This is a map to help you regain choice and steady your field so that your system doesn’t feel hijacked. Cannabis can still be a sacred ally, but right now the medicine your body most needs is grounding first, then opening. In time, the plant can feel supportive again when your roots are stronger.

The Heart-Lung-Throat Bridge

Why this practice matters

When anxiety is moving strongly through the throat, heart, and lungs, it can feel like there’s not enough air, not enough space, not enough release. The body reacts by constricting. Breath shortens, the chest tightens, and the throat feels small. Over time, this builds into what some call “heart walls;” a protective barrier around the chest that makes it harder to feel safe, open, or fully expressed.

This practice is designed to gently clear that constriction, open the breath, and bring your heart, lungs, and throat back into coherence. It is simple but powerful. You’ll practice 10–20 minutes at a time, three times a week or more if you feel called. Each time you do it, you create more space for air, voice, and feeling to move through.

The Practice (10–20 minutes)

1. Grounding the body (2–3 minutes)

  • Sit upright in a chair or cross-legged on the floor with both feet (or sit bones) grounded.

  • Place one hand on your low belly, one on your chest.

  • Take three slow breaths: inhale through the nose for 4 counts, exhale through the mouth for 6 counts. Feel your body begin to settle.

2. Breath expansion through the lungs (3–5 minutes)

  • Place both hands over your ribcage, just beneath the chest.

  • Breathe in through the nose and feel the ribs expand outward. Exhale through pursed lips as though blowing gently through a straw.

  • Repeat 8–10 times. Focus on widening the ribcage, letting the lungs fill and empty completely

3. Opening the heart space (3–5 minutes)

  • Interlace your fingers behind your head or at the base of your skull.

  • As you inhale, lift your chest slightly toward the ceiling. Exhale, let the shoulders soften down and back.

  • Imagine the breath moving directly into your heart center with each inhale.

  • Repeat 6–8 breaths, visualizing the chest opening like a window.

4. Clearing the throat (3–5 minutes)

  • Sit upright and hum softly on each exhale. Let the vibration travel from the throat down into the chest.

  • Alternate humming with gentle sighs, allowing sound to release tension in the throat.

  • For a few breaths, whisper the word “ahhh” as you exhale, imagining it creating space inside your throat and heart.

5. Integration and stillness (2–3 minutes)

  • Place one hand on your throat and one on your chest.

  • Close your eyes and breathe slowly: inhale for 4 counts, hold for 2 counts, exhale for 6 counts.

  • Repeat for 5 cycles.

  • End by silently affirming: My breath is steady. My heart is open. My voice is safe.

How to use this practice

  • Begin with 10 minutes if you feel pressed, and work toward 20 minutes as your body allows.

  • Practice three times a week, or anytime you notice tightness in your chest, shallow breathing, or anxiety climbing upward.

  • Keep a simple journal log afterward: What part of my body felt most open? Where do I still feel constricted? Did my breath deepen?

Over time, this practice retrains your body to expand rather than constrict when anxiety rises, helping your lungs, heart, and throat work together in coherence.