I have an idea that was never mine to offer you - gaze inside the sepal of a flower and receive the heart of the cosmos.
When the world feels a heady and swirling place, when the main-stream is a dead-river and the language of your heart - and crucially your nervous system - sees no corresponding mirror of sense making around you, choosing to nature gaze could be the most practical thing you do all day.
Why?
Because moments of awe can instantly move our awareness out of our thoughts and back into the innocence of our hearts.
And according to research by the HeartMath Institute whatever brings this electromagnetic field into peace and grateful coherence is far more powerful than we've been taught for our health and well being and I would add - our ability to tap into the synchronous flow of the universe and our higher-soul-selves.
I personally love how nature steadily prevents me from losing my grounded psychic marbles!
I was recently at the beautiful Manor Gardens in the old town of Bexhill and what struck me as I stood in what felt like 'The Secret Garden' watching the white blossom fall was how vibrationally rich flora and fauna can be.
There's healing to be found on so many levels in these states of oneness, beauty and awe.
Surrendering - in the best empowered and receptive sense - to the myriad cyclical teachings of nature can definitely occur between routines and places and adrenal-pounding duties.
It just requires a shift in our belief systems to a very new and yet very ancient way of seeing the world, and one that was incredibly intimate with the bird, electron and the galaxy.
That could show you a crow at a vital moment of asking, that mysteriously sends a padding wily fox across your path right when you need to learn observational stealth and stop default people pleasing.
The esteemed terms are shamanism and/or animism and I salute both as absolutely necessary, I really do, because through them all of the world becomes vital, wise and magic: a giant play of spiritual reciprocity that might send your curiosity off to a neighbouring star or three, and can greatly orientate and anchor our nervous systems to states of safety.
And this is what I aspire to continuously in my work and my own journey to health and sovereignty - to activate and fully realise our embodied potential as spiritual beings on a challenging yet profoundly beautiful planet through deep states of embodied integration, inter-connected magic and relaxed reciprocity ✨
A Sepal Spring Poem
Spring rises the growing vastness of hummingbird skies
opening salutations of cleaved healing touch,
birthing a hope-led survival we dream to
explore limbs with cusps of new air
while the cold breeze tussles our
bursts, shrugs each delicate
cloud, lean eyes to a
sky wagon of new
born dreams.
we breathe
our core
anew.
we smile
to more
green.
Photo by Lucas Dalbera on Unsplash