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They Speak to Me

November 11, 2021 By Nancy L Leave a Comment

“The beauty of the trees,
the softness of the air,
the fragrance of the grass,
speaks to me.

The summit of the mountain,
the thunder of the sky,
the rhythm of the sea,
speaks to me.

The faintness of the stars,
the freshness of the morning,
the dew drop on the flower,
speaks to me.

The strength of fire,
the taste of salmon,
the trail of the sun,
And the life that never goes away,
They speak to me.
And my heart soars”

-Chief Dan George

Filed Under: Inspire Nature Love, Open to Earth Wisdom and Guidance, Sacred Earth Tagged With: Chief Dan George, forest, joy, listen, love, mama earth, nature, sacred, sea, sky

Look Under Your Feet

September 7, 2021 By Nancy L Leave a Comment

The lesson which life constantly repeats is to ‘look under your feet.’

You are always nearer to the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.

The great opportunity is where you are.

Do not despise your own place and hour.

Every place is under the stars.

Every place is the center of the world.’

~John Burroughs

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#EarthWisdom

Filed Under: Inspire Nature Love, Open to Earth Wisdom and Guidance, Sacred Earth Tagged With: divine, John Burroughs, listen, love, nature, sacred, transform, wisdom

Listening to Mother Earth

August 31, 2021 By Nancy L Leave a Comment

It comes like a faraway whisper on the wind; so faint that you may not notice it the first few times. But then, maybe the five or sixth or tenth time, something new registers in your awareness. She’s calling to you. Mother Earth is trying to connect and communicate.

That is my experience of listening to the land; I spent weeks sitting and trying so hard, my mind positively pushing to hear Her. And hearing nothing. But then, one day when I wasn’t trying and striving, there She was, like a whisper on the wind.

Had Mother Earth been talking to me all those weeks and I simply couldn’t hear Her? Probably. We modern humans have become so attuned to loud, regular man-made sounds. But Nature isn’t loud or regular. Earth’s voice is quiet and subtle; more like a fragment of a poem than a linear, logical sentence. And it is a poem written in the breeze, the pulse of stone and the meandering flow of river water.

I suspect that our ancestors who used no clock except the sun, and who lived with Her dirt constantly beneath their feet were much more attuned to Her rhythms and voice than we are today. Living in cities and traveling in fast cars, trains and planes is not exactly conducive to hearing the subtle voice of Nature.

But Mother Earth is still there beneath us, every single day. She is living and breathing and trying to connect with us. We came from Mother Earth; She is our original mother. We are supposed to be connected to her! 

Mama Earth is longing to connect with us again. She has billions of years of wisdom to share with us. We simply need to learn how to listen again.

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Basic Earth Listening Practice

Close your eyes, right where you are. Breathe deeply. Feel the seat beneath you. And breathe some more. 

Extend your awareness down beneath your feet and your seat. No need to puzzle or push to do this. Your animal body is wired for this, to connect with Mama Earth. Simply ask your animal body to extend its awareness down into the dirt and stones beneath you. 

Extend your awareness deep; 10 feet, 50 feet, 200 feet, 1000. Drop your awareness down below the surface where humans have been mucking about. Drop deeper. Go down into the pristine soil and rock of Earth. 

Listen with your entire body. What do you feel in your your toes? Your head? Your skin?  Smell anything? What do you hear? What thoughts or images pop into your head? What emotions come up?

Don’t push for logical answers. Don’t push for any answer. Just ask what She wants to share with you today and then listen. 

It may be completely confusing and unclear the first twenty times that you try to sit and listen to Mama Earth. It’s OK. That’s normal. It takes time to recalibrate your senses and connect.

Be patient with yourself. Building relationships takes time and commitment. Deep friendships aren’t formed overnight. Keep sitting with Her and listening. Eventually you will hear Her.

Once you begin to connect and hear Mama Earth, her wisdom may take many forms. Keep in mind that She may speak in riddles and dream fragments. You may get an immediate ah ha . Or you may not realize what was “said” until hours later. Her subtle, voice may take awhile to percolate up into your consciousness. Be patient. You’re learning a foreign language. Slowly but surely you will begin to hear Mama Earth singing to you.

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This practice can be used to connect with Mama Earth’s living, breathing ground beneath your feet. You can also use it to connect with an old tree or lake or boulder. Experiment and have fun.

Filed Under: Dream a New Earth, Inspire Nature Love, Open to Earth Wisdom and Guidance Tagged With: dream, elemental, learn, listen, love, mama earth, nature, ritual, wisdom

Awaken to the Dark

July 19, 2021 By Nancy L Leave a Comment

“To connect with God, we first have to connect with nature, and to connect with nature, we have to awaken to the dark. That is why he (Rebbe Nachman) advised his disciples to follow a solitary path into the darkness outside the city, and to enlist the aid of plants and flowers once they got there. To follow nature and return to nature—that itself was the path to God.”

~Clark Strand, Waking Up to the Dark,
Ancient Wisdom for a Sleepless Age

Filed Under: Open to Earth Wisdom and Guidance, Share Ideas and Practices Tagged With: Clark Strand, dark, listen, nature, night, sacred, wisdom

Shhh… Listen

June 6, 2021 By Nancy L 1 Comment

Filed Under: Open to Earth Wisdom and Guidance, Sacred Earth Tagged With: listen, mama earth, nature, sacred, wisdom

The Pathless Woods

May 27, 2021 By Nancy L Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Inspire Nature Love, Open to Earth Wisdom and Guidance, Sacred Earth Tagged With: joy, listen, Lord Byron, love, nature, sacred, solitude, wisdom

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