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Nature's Spiritual Awakening Path and Guidance Program for Life Coaches and Sustainability Advisors "We were visiting in Taos. I felt attracted to a field across the street from our lodge. I later found this was the beginning of the Taos pueblo, which explained the intensity of the peace emanating and resonating from the ground itself. What initially attracted me was the contrast of the soft, golden chamisal, with morning light radiating across its flurry of brush - against a backdrop of steel grey sky. This contrast was both sharp and gentle. Awakening my senses of color, sound, balance, gravity and communion. The silence was so deep as it touched my inner ear that I opened to my sense of gravity and balance, knowing that these are also regulated by the inner ear. I found that the silence was anchoring and steadying, and allowed me to open my full visual contact to the mountains across the field. The visual impact of their sage green foothills and crisp white, snow capped peaks entered through my solar plexus to radiate out through my fingertips and breath. The tingling in my skin opened my heart. The opening in my heart moved up into my throat. I hummed a low, pulsing hum. This shot down my spine and I felt my feet rooted to the earth. I sensed in this rooting a residue of ages that I could only describe as co-abiding. Some guidance and balance of human sustenance, human community and active reciprocity with the earth. This made my nature activity feel more whole than usual. I usually do my nature activities in a park, a preserve, or in my yard or greenspace. These spaces are set apart. And so I have to leave my daily life to be in nature. Here in Taos, there are many miserable disconnected story issues. And simultaneously, the land has been used also for very sustainable agriculture, spiritual nourishment and creative nourishment almost as strongly as for excessive exploitation. So standing on the edge of the this field, I was able to sense the beauty of natural attractions without having to so severely shut out the community life around the natural life. This felt multisensorily attractive to me. Later, when I found that I had been standing on the edge of Taoseno pueblo land, this attraction made even more sense. I discovered that I am given a living model of Indigenous, Hispanic, White integration that includes the land with echoes of sustainable economy. This old sensory/cognitive brain balance allows me to deepen in nature. I feel unified with nature with this gift. It enables me to feel more human, more eco embedded and, as an advisor, I can build this kind of a future within both online and physical communities The ecopsychology of nurture occurs embedded in place. Starting first in the places between and within atomic (attraction/non attraction) levels, then moving into the cellular and through the human physiology into the larger eco system. Any ripple in the path of this concentric, mutually reciprocal synergy that gets blocked will impact the nurturer and the nurtured. For example, a child raised with healthy attachment parenting, in a loving household - may still experience profound alienation and isolation - if they are growing up in a culture that is not eco embedded. The best, most nature grounded parenting and education, is still at the mercy of the cultural environment in which this nurturing occurs. This poses a challenge of real creative accommodation and Ghandi-like, suburban subversive choices, in order to eco nurture in and around a five-legged imbalanced culture. I agree that these nature connection activities let us identify a multisensory way of knowing by which the sense resonated with each other and produced a personal and/or community consensus. They enable each of us to connect and commune with nature's spiritual guidance in ourselves, each other, and in the natural environment as well." ^^^ "This week I did my connection activity with a potted plant. I sat it and asked its permission to share some time. I found while doing the activity I, at times, became anxious when holding my breath whid not holding the plant. I knew this was because I was cutting off my connection with nature. When I would re-connect by touching the plant and breathing, the feelings were of relief, light and renewal. I then repeated this activity with an air freshener instead of the plant. I felt cheated. It was not alive, grateful or responsive. I discovered that to be a part of nature is to give and to receive and that nature counts just as much on us as we do on it. My sense of self-worth was enhanced with this experience as I now feel part of and embraced by the circle of life and not just an observer." ^^^ I did this activity in my daughter's back yard in Albuquerque. I went and stood outside and gained permission to be in reciprocity with the natural environment. She is in a city neighborhood near the university, but has a small yard - like most of those in Albuquerque, made of red dirt, cottonwood trees, some lava rock in the flower beds - yucca and prickly pear cacti are frequent yard visitors. I got quiet and felt attracted to the bark symmetry and leaf patterns of the cottonwood tree. The cottonwood tree is a mighty giver of shade and oxygen and a great survivor of desert climates. I walked over to a tree, felt the crunch of the yellow leaves fallen beneath my feet, touched the bark. My boys have been playing a game on their walks here. When we crunch through these leaves on the sidewalk they say, 'Uh oh, the bodies of innocent villagers, we'd better go around.' I felt the memory of their relationship to nature, the sense that leaves could be seen as innocent villagers. They glory in the silly agressiveness of describing the battles that brought these innocent villagers down. But their sense of not crunching on a fallen victim is real. I touched the tree bark, looked up at the powerful, steel blue, hard grey of the sky. There was a huge white cloud overhead, the wind was strong and cold and fierce. I felt power. And simultaneously under my hand, my attraction senses of community, sense of place, sense of friendship by identification with another's empowerment - were knocked in a tizzy so strong I almost fell over. I felt this tree and the senses of community moving up my arm from the tree bark activated a keening, wailing sense of grief - of the loss of community, of the loss of identity, of the loss of place. I felt trustable to know this was not my projection, but a naked moment with a tree species at risk. The annual flooding of the Rio Grande has been interrupted and contained for decades to preserve the city of Albuquerque, the cottonwoods are drying out - more susceptible to fire, and thus huge swaths of riverside Bosque are charred and sear. I felt an attraction to the ultimate power of the cold, the wind, the beingness of sky. And I felt connected to the keening grief of irrevocable loss of the trees, of members of their community. All I can do is become a guest, a member in respectful standing of their species, and be with these trees. And as I felt attracted to this connection, I sensed that even in this devastation the earth is moving toward, reaching toward, asking for - any new/old brain, five-legged/four-legged balanced human to please, please - gather, grieve, be with, embrace, move forward with, any ravaged communities. I discovered that I can trust my sensory reception of alarms in nature's sensory awareness to its own risk. I can be part of nature's sensory warning and by my own small, wrangled yet loving nature's spiritual life abiding with, provide some channel for healing. I have a responsibility to do so. Honoring my sensory awareness of an actual sensory response of pain of some kind in the earth is a relief. The ecopsychology of nurture is one that includes awareness of trauma and the need for healing of the planet as well as the people upon the planet. I agree that "Our negatives and abusiveness are runaway because they are unknown in nature" ^^^
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