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Program
Outcomes:
Judy N, an online program participant, shares her results from
a nature-connecting activity.
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MY TRUE SELF APPEARED IN HONOR OF MEETING ITS BROTHERS AND SISTERS
There must be about 500 skyscrapers
in Hong Kong, quite filled with metal, but the mountains are
so close and really add magical dimension. And we stayed in a
teachers college right in one arm of the mountain. I could have
stared at them all day. I was able most mornings to spend a couple
hours just looking at them. I noticed that many of us were very
happy with the mountains.
For this activity I found a quiet place where there was a picnic
table at the base of the mountain and in the shade of the buildings.
I asked permission and was given permission by a wonderful sense
of feeling comfortable and cozy. And I expressed my gratitude.
The wind began to blow as I
went to a number of plants and took hold of them and pulled gently
but firmly. The reaction I felt right away was the connection,
the bonding of me with this plant and this plant with the earth.
It was feeling the reality of each plants living earthness and
my touching this also. I felt the power and profundity of each
plant. I knew how much to pull without causing harm. This reaction
was a surprise to me.
I discovered that each plant
has its own purpose and reality with the earth and that the webstrings
of me and the plant and the soil and the earth and sun are so
much a reality for which I am grateful. I love the way the plant
holds firm to the earth. I am happy to be able to take the hand
of a stalk of a leafy plant and feel its connection to the earth.
I am so happy to feel the magical love of the mountains wrapped
in mist or showing its tropical green colors.
I have always loved wind for
some reason: it connects me to something larger than myself
and expands my soul. This adds to the depth dimension of my life
and without it my soul would shrink. I find that words cannot
fully express what we feel/experience, but they can point the
way.
By asking and receiving consent
from the Hong Kong picnic table area I felt my presence in that
serene area change. I was no longer a foreign being having to
stare at a foreign land. All that is natural about me became
evident and I felt as though my true self appeared in honor of
meeting with its brothers and sisters.
I was attracted to this area
first for it mountain shadow that relieved the heat given from
the sun. While this connection provided physical rewards, my
most rewarding experience was the balance that is held and displayed
so preciously by pulling the plant. It also provided me support
for my health in that it offered me pure positive wisdom, and
acknowledgement of my instincts that will maintain my health,
mentally, and physically.
Nature is reactionary and purposeful. To obtain balance it must
have an understanding of it's own purpose and the purpose of
others in nature. To gain this understanding a consensual relationship
would have to be established with all things in nature. I feel
this reflects survival in nature, everything is given the opportunity
to live, contribute, and prosper as well as the opportunity to
obtain consent for its presence in that place in time. If no
relationship is establish, and communication and acknowledgment
of nature is ignored than so is the significance of our presence
and purpose in nature. Then balance is difficult to obtain along
with survival.
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