Nature is amazing. One thing I have learned is that we can always go to Nature for answers and guidance. Being still and present in Nature allows inspiration to flow. Nature is healing. This is the basis of ecopsychology.
This summer I was told, “You just don’t get it.” The conversation was left at that. For the life of me I couldn’t figure out how this statement fit in with what we were talking about. But it stuck to me like an unpleasant thorn.
I wanted an answer, “What was “IT” that I didn’t get?”
While pruning a beautiful, lime green gold thread cypress into a ball shape at one of my landscaping jobs, I got my answer. I stood back and looked at this pruned shrub and realized I tamed it, forced it to “fit in”. Its beauty and spirit where changed.
“As soon as we attempt to label or define (change or control) something, we take away from the beauty and mystery that first attracted us.”
I received a text back… “You got it!!!”
This message can apply to all facets of our lives, especially to relationships and friendships. What about just appreciating the moment? Letting life be as it is. Enjoying the unfolding.
I find that many “messages” we receive from the Universe are something we already know but just need a reminder on. Or something we “know” but we haven’t experienced consciously, it isn’t our personal truth yet.
Can you recall something you “knew” but it didn’t really become ingrained in you as a personal truth until an experience made it real?
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Great analogy Tania. There are things that we may consciously know but haven’t really gotten through to us. Learning is remembering all that we have forgotten.
I have to agree that by studying nature we can learn much from it.
Thank you Justin. So true… “learning is remembering all that we have forgotten.”
yeah studying nature is really important, a lot of us forget how nature can heal us or help us, I love this post thank you!
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I have learnt from nature but not in the beautiful way you describe. I have watched the daily struggle for survival in nature.
This has reminded me that if you want something you have to go out – search for it and grasp it quickly before it’s gone.
Life can be brutally difficult and that you must learn to stand up for yourself.
Hi Chris,
Thank you for visiting Whole Living Today. Yes, there is a survival instinct in nature but there isn’t a need for greed as society has created. There is so much beauty in nature to observe and learn from… seeing the stars at night, a rainbow, sunrise and sunset. Flowers and plants exist and receive what they need just by being. Water and clouds can remind us to just go with the flow.
Life is all about perception and what we focus on. I hope you take the opportunity to get out and look at Nature in a new way
Peace & Blessings,
Tania
Thanks for sharing this. Your thoughts about messages from the Universe and things you have learned in the past really resonated with me. Always learning and “relearning.”
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