UPDATED 2024
Nature offers us so many tools to get to a peaceful place within ourselves. Nature has given me so many powerful messages in times of chaos and confusion. Whether it’s being on nature walks, hiking up mountains, watching the way streams flow, or observing how gardens grow, nature is full of powerful life lessons. Consider the butterfly, universally used to symbolize transformation.
Just before updating today’s aligning, I was on a sunset walk, and saw a Great Blue Heron with the backdrop of a golden sunset. I snapped an image that was the perfect reminder that there is beauty in the world, we just have to slow down enough not to miss the experience of it. I could have easily missed the experience if I wasn’t taking in the scenery.
Here’s the link to the Facebook post I did to capture the message I got:
I didn’t start noticing all the signs, messages, and lessons nature provided until I had a particular encounter with a Banyan Tree.
I will be forever grateful to the Banyan Tree that taught me the importance of getting rid of dead weight, so that my energy could be distributed to places that will make me stronger. Trees come with many answers if we stop, listen, and observe. Just sitting under trees as the wind moves their branches puts me at ease with the world around me. I’m reminded to breathe in the magnificent oxygen that they provide. Buddha sat under the Bodhi Tree. The leaves clapping together sound like rain. A perfect tree for meditation and contemplation.
We make time for what’s important to us, so if peace is important, we must first start making time to be at peace. The world around us might be chaotic and frantic, but trees can offer us calm. If we don’t want to be in the chaos, we need tools to get our energy out of the chaos and into the energy where the best solutions lie—in our calm. Our best problem solving skills happen when we are in the energy of love, abundance, and peace, not fear, lack, and separation.
A practice I love to do is write down a challenge I’m facing, ask the Universe to provide me with wisdom, and sit under a tree, climb a tree (if necessary), or take a walk. Then, I stay as present as I can to see what comes to me. It’s all because of my experience with that Banyan. It was when I was climbing it, high in the branches that I became free from the chains that were holding me down. I asked for the wisdom, and I got more than I ever could have imagined.
Today’s Aligning
Love
These three things about nature fill my heart with love…what are they?
Abundance
Three reasons I’m grateful for trees are…name them out loud and FEEL the gratitude running through you. Where do you feel it in your body?
Peace
Today, I commit to projecting my peace through my love for something in the natural world.
With Love, Gratitude,and Peace,
©Rachael Wolff 2020, 2024
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