HEALING FOR BODY, MIND, AND SPIRIT

My BlogTalk Radio show on the great healing quality of nature reminded me that I have felt this way about the natural world since I was a young child. As I prepared my notes for the show, I asked myself to look back and find my earliest memories of feeling joyful and alive in nature. Lots of vivid images came to mind: hiking, fishing, lying on the ground in the forest and looking up at the treetops.

A SWEET MEMORY

Then I  remembered a moment that felt like a sacred vision quest. My dad was very much at home in the wilderness, and  one day when I was 4 years old, he took me on a long hike through the woods to show me a beautiful fresh-water spring he had discovered. We were silent and almost reverent as we drank from that spring. It was the most delicious water I’d ever tasted. And that simple and sweet moment is forever etched in my mind- full of meaning.  It felt then, and now, that my dad and I received something precious from Mother Earth.

FIND YOUR OWN MEMORIES

Take some time, when you can, and look back into your own childhood. Remember how much you loved the feel of the Earth under your bare feet, the smell of the forest, ocean, and wildflowers, or the sound of the trickling stream? That child who loved the natural world is still in you, like mine is still in me. Let’s take them out for a walk under the open sky.

“As we live, breathe, walk, and enjoy each day here,
Let all of this life be seen, felt, smelled, and revered by us.”

From “Prayers of Light- heal yourself, heal your world”

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Blessings and Love,
Anita