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After
a day by Oak Creek in Sedona, Arizona 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…
Shamanic
“Gazing”.
Shamans use a technique called
“gazing” to expand them 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 children, 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 Indian mystic –
saint in his sutras called this “making samyama” on
an object , to become one – merged with something
and yogic powers would then open up with this 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 strengthen me and I will be able to give you my
beauty and love back.”
Later I found a quote by Albert
Einstein that seemed fitting.
“One
feels as if one is dissolved, merged into Nature”
Albert
Einstein
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