ECOTHERAPY = HEALING WITH NATURE
Let’s come back to how you can take refuge in nature to help yourself in the 21st century. The following seven steps are a pathway for this.
1. Establish a regular meditation practice. Quieting the mind allows you to enter a level of consciousness that creates, over time, an experiential knowing that you’re an inseparable part of nature. You become more open to healing – in whatever form that may take.
2. Practice conscious awakening daily. Consciously practice opening your eyes, and other senses as if you are experiencing your environment for the first time and everything is new. What do you notice internally and externally that you’ve never noticed before?
3. Spend some time in a natural environment daily, preferably outdoors. If you’re unable to go outside, get comfortable, close your eyes, and consciously visualize walking in a natural setting. How much detail can you bring to the experience? If outside, you can do a walking meditation: moving as mindfully as possible, with no thought of a destination... just walking and paying attention to the world around you and what’s happening inside you.
4. Whether you’re outside or using visualization, become aware of each sense. Use your sense of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch to experience all the sensory delights that nature provides so abundantly. Strive to find new sensory experiences in nature each time.
5. Write about the emotions, feelings, and ideas that come to mind as a result of this exercise. Journaling is very useful in the process of healing. It gives you the opportunity to reflect and process your thoughts, feelings, and experiences, especially with the act of pen to paper. Attempt to get your thoughts down immediately after your ‘green immersion’ when it’s fresh in your mind.
6. Witness the healing effects of this practice on yourself, community, and planet. Because of our inner connection with all other aspects of the universe, practices promoting healing extend beyond us, to others in our environment. In this way our healing actions are like a ripple effect --the wave of healing energy propagates and others may benefit.
7. Celebrate and express gratitude for your senses, your existence and your connection with nature.
The following is an excerpt from a meditation that I wrote and was used in a global event last February. You are welcome to use it also.
“See this green healing energy now encircling the globe - in a clockwise direction - bathing all sentient beings, all of Nature. A large wave of peace covering all. Elephants, ladybugs, dolphins and eagles. The iced peaks of Everest, the rainforests of the Amazon, the Grand Canyon, the islands of Hawaii, the Danube river, the great expanse of the Steppes.
We pray for Peace – both planetary and in each of our bodies – and for the Divine grace to stop the ecocide and rejuvenate the environment.
Pure water/clean air, blue sky/green grass, rich soil, vibrant health and strength flooding everyone, every species so precious to the ecological web. See this green consciousness flowing around and through our fragile globe, Mother Earth, as Matter and Spirit unite, Evolving by the Supramental Light, Peace and Love.”
Miriam Belov, MAT, RMT is a best-selling author and expert in mind body spirit work, sharing the techniques for integral health and realization she has pioneered. The “Keep Calm” Mentor creates programs for organizations, i.e. the MET and the UN, appears on TV and all media. A Reiki Master, her psychic energy work and global wisdoms transform lives.
www.wellnessagenda.com
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