Sedona - Oak Creek
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'Ancient Pine' - Sedona
"Appreciating" Nature
a Message from Mother Earth
After a day by Oak Creek in Sedona, sitting in a chair with my feet in the water, hopping on the rocks, sharing blackberries with a skunk, swimming, I received a message from what felt like Mother Earth herself about an easy way to heal ourselves and the planet.
The word Appreciate according to Webster's new universal unabridged dictionary means:
1. to value, to esteem...
2. to recognize gratefully...
3. to increase the price...
4. to be fully or sensitively aware...
Shamans use a technique called "gazing" to expand themselves and connect with deeper aspects of the world around us. This happens naturally whenever we slow down and enter the "Be still and know that I am God" space. Most of us naturally do this as kids, often while playing in nature, when we get absorbed in something that fully captures our attention and we become one with it, merge with it. Patanjali, the 11th century mystic - saint called this "making samyana" on an object in his sutras, to become one - merged with something and yogic powers would then open up with perfect attention - merging. As I sat and de-focused my attention while looking at the stream, I saw how when we love-"appreciate"-feel gratitude for Nature, we actually lift it up. Our love-gratitude-appreciation energy actually infuses the plants, rocks, water, the very air around us. We feed them with our Love (God's Love). We are the God seeds, we are the "made in God's image" creatures that can be the vehicles for Divine energy.
"The seed of God is in us....Pear seeds grow into pear trees,
hazel seeds into hazel trees,
and God seeds into God."
--Meister Eckhardt
The plants, rocks, water around us get "excited" by our love. The same way an electron gets excited by heat energy and speeds up. Love is the highest energy form in the created universe, it excites everything. The plants, rocks, water, the air - subtle ether feed off of our Love, they want to play with us, they want to share, dance, exchange energy with us. When we give them our attention they notice, when we give them our love they dance.
And then they automatically want to give back to us in the form(s) of beauty they create.
Nature is the most chaotic, rambunctious, dis-organized system there is. Look at the fallen logs, the leaves, the "dirt", the plants trying to grow through rocks, the rains washing "away" the earth etc. Yet there is a perfect Order running through-out all of it. We instinctively are awed by Nature's grandeur and beauty. We feel the majesty of the creative force just behind the vista of Nature.
Mother Earth said to me:
" There is no 'work' involved with 'appreciating' Me. Just come out into my spaces and Love me, enjoy me, drink me, breathe me, sense me. It will fill you back up. And you will 'save' Me as well. Your Love for the trees, the streams, the rocks, the animals will feed them and keep them safe. Your appreciation of me will 'appreciate' me, will lift me up in vibratory rate, will strenghten me and I will be able to give you my beauty and love back."
"One feels as if one is dissolved, merged into Nature"
Albert Einstein
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