In this episode of the Wild Soul Confidential Tonya gets candid on why she walks in in the woods and why it is important to sit, be silenient and listen.
There’s a sense of belonging in the forest - so much to gain in terms of how we relate to life, each other, our sense of righteousness in the world… but in the forest everything means everything and nothing at the same time.
3 things we’re talking about
- feeling of belonging
- Feeling of greatness and smallness at the same time
- When nature shows itself to you
There’s a fierceness and a gentleness to nature - things are both fierce in their survival and gentle in the reality of how easy and precious life is.
Nature is both brutal in it’s death and it’s unrelenting survival of the fittest, it’s recovery and moving on and amazing in it’s interconnectedness, the respect and how every little tiny thing has a job, a purpose, a meaning.
Humans have a tendency to look on nature as a nuisance but nature is truly our home. The more disconnected we are from nature the more disconnected we are from truth. We have no idea what our world does for us. The reason the earth is sick is because humans are disconnected and we’re sick because we’re disconnected.
We have no idea of our true place in nature and how we have become a dominator, a taker instead of participant in life. We are on the earth but really we are of the earth as much as the ant we step on, disregarding it’s place in the web of life.
Trees speak. There is a wisdom that tells the truth son the ages and truths to come. When you sit in the woods with trees, breathe in the truth, purpose, problems shrink, and purpose magnifies. When we sit with trees we gain access to wisdom that lives within us that normally we can’t hear in the noise of the day to day life, with everything on bust and we’re overcorrected but we’re truly connected in the forest.