Take a breath with me in nature

We are part of nature, Yes, we go outside to BE IN nature, yet we are intrinsically part of her.

The Schuman resonance of the earth is 7.83 hz which falls in the middle, between, the Alpha and Theta brainwaves. Theta is the restorative, deeply relaxed brainwave state associated with restorative healing, creativity and memory retrieval.

When we spend any length of time in nature, we tend to feel calmer, more relaxed, creative as our brainwaves begin to slow down, become less frenetic. They become more receptive and open to possibility, openess and joy.

I think this poem illustrates his so beautifully, how showing down and being in nature, is deeping connection into oneness and openness with the great mother, what do you think?

Lost

Stand still.

The trees ahead and the bushes beside you Are not lost.

Wherever you are is called Here,

And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,

Must ask permission to know it and be known.

The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,

I have made this place around you,

If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here.

No two trees are the same to Raven.

No two branches are the same to Wren.

If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,

You are surely lost. Stand still.

The forest knows Where you are.

You must let it find you.

An old Native American elder story rendered into modern English by David Wagoner, in The Heart Aroused - Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America by David Whyte, Currency Doubleday, New York, 1996.