Dear one, 

Old patterns fashion the body. 

Some habits weave these limbs so tight, they have closed you off from your Heart. 

And when that disconnect restricts you from seeing your true nature…look beyond yourself, your shape, and your body.

For there is a truer mirror to be used.

Take a moment right now, in the room that you’re in, in the space you occupy - and look closer. 

The table, once part of a woodland, once a forgotten seed sleeping in the soil, now, here in this room.

The material hugging your skin, once a crop soaked in warmth and nourished by the rains, a thousand strands of sunlight touching your skin. 

The food in your belly, grown by mother moon and her seasons, now having a conversation with your body.

The daylight cutting through the window, its glass made of eroded rock and minerals, eroded over millions of years.

Cultivate a closer relationship with everything around you and you will cultivate a more intimate relationship with yourself.

TIPS ON FINDING NATURE’S CONNECTION WHEREVER YOU ARE

- Use a different mirror. When you see something beautiful in nature, remember that that there is an element of yourself being reflected back.

- Connect with your breath, often. Everything alive breathes. Take a deep breath and think about how many other living elements are breathing with you right now.

- Find wholeness in imperfection. Everything in nature is imperfect. Not a single petal, root, wing are the same (often our definition of perfection). Find a marked tree, a leaf-eaten rose, a discolored patch of grass, and notice how the plant grows anyway, never believing in the story of its flaws.

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POEM

Undulating valleys 

can be found in

the body’s

bending limbs,

wilder paths

in the 

untamed thickets 

of forgotten skin -

and reflected in 

the surface of 

deep blue water -

the Heart’s

unfettered youth

ever luring you back

into her depths.

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