connecting with source

I can’t help but wonder if we have become too attuned to looking for answers in the wrong places.

If we are not careful business and finances can cause us to become dogmatic and rigid in our practices.

This thing “we need to survive” in this society can become viewed as our most essential need. We get hooked on the coverings- money, what we have, what we can get. And quite possibly, forget to tune into the intention behind all of that in the first place. 

Stability. Safety.

We all want to feel safe, and loved.

So when we get lost in work to seek safety, we lose out on a whole lot of love-right here, right now. 

Pulling attention and affection toward its encompassing energy, threatening to pull us from the source. When all along this life force exists within, and in nature. In the reciprocal receiving of oxygen from the life force of plants, the life force of earth. 

So while I walk frequently on the concrete, I do not live in a concrete world. In between work I take creativity breaks. And earth-always has the answers.

When I have the choice, I choose to wait for the sun to greet me before I move into doing. I take walks around to listen to the earth, at different times of the day. I walk past familiar spots checking on all of the life that is shifting around me with each walk.

Leaving any attachments and devices at home- I just go- to listen, to learn. 

Earth is my mentor, and I am an intern. 

Rather than pull out my phone, I ask the earth- what is the weather going to be like today?

I look at the clouds, I recognize if the wind feels cool or warm. Noticing connections between changes in my surroundings- I ask questions.

It is undoubtedly a conversation that brings me right back to the source of my life force.

I notice how just 2 weeks ago gingko leaves were releasing their golden glow upon the cracks of the sidewalk, and how today the trees are naked-not a leaf in sight. 

I notice new tiny blooms of bouganvillea, and a plant in the aloe family with brightly red, shining torches a top. I say hi to these as I pass by. Those flame like torches become inspiration- I say thank you. 

I see these plants on my walks as familiar faces, as friends, as neighbors. 

I stop to admire a massive shrub of althea officinalis, marshmallow root. I bend over curiously to see where their roots might be. I ask questions, I inquire, I connect.

A few steps away I see a patch of mallow growing a long a fence, I say hello to new leaves that are marbled in a beautiful ivory white. I pet the fuzzy leaves and compare them to the smaller mallow leaves of a solid light green. I wonder if they are one in the same.

I notice things like the wind feeling crisp, and I tell the sky that the sun has been beautiful, and that I know rain will be too. 

So, what might our days, weeks and lives look like if instead of always reaching for external & instant validation, we connected with self and nature, & began to inquire from the true source that gives us life?

To ask earth, and sky, and moon for the weather, and then to listen for the answer. To look at the signs of change in plants and nature. To commune with nature and inquire, instead of seeking instant validation from our devices. 

What if we didn’t map that destination every time we wanted to know about traffic, and what if we just went and found out?

What if we left our devices at home, while on our walks, and reconnected with nature & self (with source)?

Do you think our world would become more spacious?

Would we remember this source as so much bigger than the concrete world?

I’m curious. And so I ask you.

How do you imagine your life feeling if more often than not, you moved from this space?

From curious inquiry and connection with nature.