Get outside.
Love Planet Earth.
The concept is simple,
But the practice isn’t necessarily so.
Especially given our modern world,
One fundamentally based on separation.
This false narrative of separation is killing us.
Just as it is killing our planet.
The remedy?
Get outside.
Get your feet on the earth.
Move your body.
Be with the earth.
Remember…
Remember,
You are this earth.
You are not separate.
You are very much a part of this earth as
each tree,
each rock,
each river,
each peak.
The false narrative is that you are separate.
The false narrative is that you are superior.
Get outside.
Get your feet on the earth.
Move your body.
Breathe with the forest.
Remember….
You are this earth.
Just as every man, woman, and child
is this Earth.
We are not separate.
As we remember this,
we remember love.
Because love is the flow
between each living being
as we know ourselves as part of the whole.
The whole
Planet Earth.
❤️ 🌎 🌍 🌏 ❤️
As I wrote this piece today, I held in my heart the thing that matters most in my life.
To understand what this is, it helps to understand my love for nature. My time out in the mountains, or in the forests - it is precious. It brings me joy and a depth of fulfillment that little else in this world can do.
Still, time in nature isn’t everything. Which begs the question, what else is there?
To answer this, perhaps we look to the rest of the world: a world that is burning, dropping bombs on one another, kidnapping our neighbors and sending them to far off prisons. All because we spew hatred narratives in the name of lifting up our own ego.
It is bullshit. And it has to end.
My time in nature helps me to remember the truth underlying all the bullshit narratives that humans have concocted. And the truth is this:
That we are all of this Earth. We are all Earth.
And upon Earth, there is no separation.
There is only one web of life,
one web of interwoven beings.
Humans have forgotten this.
And in its place, we weave false narratives based on separation.
This breeds hatred.
The remedy is not to run away from it all and hole up in nature.
Still, the remedy can be found in nature, because she reminds us of the truth.
This is why I teach what I do. To get outside. Get your feet on the Earth. Move your body.
Remember.
And, in this remembering, may we heal at every level of this broken world.
- within, our very own selves
- and, out there, in the connections between one another.
This is how we heal this Planet Earth.