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Journaled Reports from Nature-Connected Students of the Healing Arts: Deeper Intimacy and Respect My nature-connecting, "Let Earth Teach" activity took place this morning, sitting in the hot tub with my partner, David. As usual, I gazed up at the lovely tree that fills my vision when I look up. Behind its sparkling yellow leaves shone the clear blue sky, and I couldn't help but smile. I asked the tree, silently, for permission to visit, and suddenly noticed a new attraction ... to its bark. I then felt the desire to share what I was feeling and seeing with David, and he came over to sit closer to me in order to experience the same view. I told him how we ask permission to visit with nature, and how silly I had felt the first time I asked permission of this same tree (at which I have been gazing for five years now). I also shared how amazed I had been that first time, because it had made a big difference in how connected I had felt to the tree. David was intrigued and gazed with me for some time. I felt a new kind of bond (webstring) developing between David, the tree and me. I reflected on how important it was for me to show the same level of respect for the tree being as I would with any human being. I also felt a deeper level of respect for myself developing based on my awareness of the tree's value and worthiness for respect. David then said, "don't forget the other tree". We have a lovely pine tree in view, but more off to the side. We gazed at it together and it reminded me of the wonderful feeling I get when we are together with my grandchildren... that sense of joy that I feel about our shared adoration for these beautiful beings. He talked about climbing the tree to put Christmas lights on it, so we could see it more clearly during the winter months. And he reminisced about the times he had climbed up pine trees and felt the swaying of the tree in the wind. He was beaming. I was beaming. Even though I knew the tree did not need Christmas lights, I loved the fact that David wanted to climb it, feel it more closely, and adorn it with light. I learned that my relationship with nature can enhance my relationship with humans and that my long-term practice of focusing on what attracts me to other people is a skill that is very useful with nature too. I discovered more about the relationship between nature-deprivation and low-self-esteem development in children. I would feel angry if these webstring attractions were taken away from me. I feel reinforced in my love for nature and more educated about the why of it. I sense a greater depth of respect and adoration. To the extent I am respecting and honoring others, am I able to respect and honor myself. I intend to share these kinds of experiences with my granddaughter ASAP so we may embrace a deeper sense of intimacy and respect. In Joy, Lucy Support and Understanding I had a most wonderful experience today of transformation and I want to tell you about it. It happened because of this course. Opening to and trusting my nature-attraction senses is helping me strengthen my relationship with Earth. I was talking to a close, Nature-loving human friend. I was saying how although I have received many affirmations from others and even myself in this life time, after giving me a boost, they then drain out of me like water through a colander/sieve. In the ensuing conversation of her wise questions and my deep answers, the very shiny stainless steel sieve moved away from the central place it held all these years in the bowl of my pelvis and was replaced by Earth! First just my body size patch of soil and then that spontaneously expanded to be the whole Earth. The stainless steel sieve, gave up its efforts to protect me in that form and turned into a woman guardian/healer instead. This is so exciting because I can feel a body connection to Earth that I didn’t feel before and the rest of the image is that the appreciations are seeds that fall on Earth and grow there inside me instead of draining out again and again. This sieve image has been there for as long as I can remember and has never been transformed despite all my efforts, until now. I believe it is because I have honored Earth and felt our reciprocal relationship in a Real Way. This is a very green/green experience. It is amazing and marvelous how in the process of this course helping me to re-connect with Nature, I have been given permission to be who I really am. I have been going through some dark places lately but I know that it has been a releasing of them not a takeover by them that has been happening. Thank you all for your support and understanding in these last weeks or months or whatever its been. Like Wires Connecting Dear All- just had to burst this out! Before reading Chapter Three I have just read Chapter One and feel totally uplifted (understatement)- I am so very comforted by it, it’s like a homecoming to my nature family plus receiving gifts from welcoming neighbours! It all feels so familiar and reassuring- the descriptions of the sensory natural attraction connections and the various quotes, helped me understand totally why I felt the birds are weaving back connections and validated all the information I am receiving from nature. Moment by moment, organic systems are naturally attracted to create additional energy connections that increasingly weave balance and repair the web of life. This is not done haphazardly; rather it forms an attraction intelligence that produces nature’s optimum of life, diversity, cooperation, balance and beauty. It is worth remembering that the process is inclusive and caring enough to globally produce and sustain the web of life without creating garbage. At macro level, nothing is left out, unattached or unwanted- a way to define unconditional love. This statement is really strengthening me in recovery and as part of the process of regeneration. I also understand more about my pain as an attraction formed due to missing an attraction that once before gave me good feelings in the garden. With my natural attractions rearranged, forms changed, and the lack of access to those feelings registered as pain and pain is really an attraction towards healing. This process does not feel daunting like before in trying to save what has gone, more like an opportunity to diligently witness natural sense attractions forming. They deepen my connections and understanding of attractions and how they regenerate. They enable me to be consciously part of an infinitely loving process and to know we have everything we need. I sensed this today as I was outside trying to help some flattened bushes. As I coaxed them became upright I felt synergies forming between them, like wires connecting. Zap! One love, Ruth You are invited to read or distribute a press release about this webpage.
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