The stone.
Compared to the pond, it’s quite small.
Yet if you drop it in the middle, ripples will spread out in all directions, ripples you can see.
Ripples you can feel.
The elder asked me, “What kind of stone are you?”
We moved invisibly through the woods. Silent. Moving as nature does. Discovering ourselves and our world. Exploring moving naturally.
“Years ago I learned if you tried to sneak through the woods, the birds would tell on you. Some birds, that’s their main job. To let everyone know that someone is sneaking. So being a sneak backfires, both in the woods, and in life.”
Sneaking through the woods is about as effective as sneaking through the mall, all you do is get funny looks, way to much attention, and as a bonus you get to be “out of the flow”.
Let’s get in the flow – naturally instead.
Because, if you are out of the flow, your experience of the woods, isn’t gonna be the same as a native, someone who lives there.
You’ll be an alien, instead of being natural. You won’t experience a world of wealth and abundance, you’ll struggle to survive.
I invite you to explore becoming more natural.
In contrast, we’ve been walking on floors that are level, flat, and hard – wearing shoes that are shaped funny and remove us from the earth. We’ve been doing this “unnatural thing” so long, that low back pain, and blowing out your knees – not to mention being under constant subtle structural stress because you don’t move naturally, well all that is considered normal.
Here are a couple tips to getting you walking (and being) more – naturally.
Let your body be long. Being long invites you to feel the whole way down to the earth.
Let your steps be shorter than most, about 14 to 18 inches – like a deer. Longer steps require you to fall all day long. Touch the earth, don’t hit it.
Let your feet roll from the outside to the inside with every step.
Notice the flow – the rhythm around you – and allow – invite – your body to match it.
Something really cool happens when you do these things. For some reason you start feeling better, your mind clears, and you have more energy.
As a bonus, you start seeing nature at rest and at play. You’ll see animals, birds, even bees in a more natural state. They won’t be alarmed by your presence, they will be invited because of it.
And if you come more – naturally from the core – connecting more fully with the earth – for some reason, even the people around you will relax, and play and be like the deer I almost touched this past Monday.
I wasn’t stalking him – the deer. I wasn’t even camouflaged. I was just moving naturally, and I walked within 6 feet of a feeding deer in the woods.
Just because…. I wasn’t a stone – I wasn’t moving like I was stoned. I wasn’t dropped into a pond. I was in my element, exploring and enjoying my world. Discovering me, and you, and life, in the moment!
Twenty Twenty Gathering Nettles
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You’ll become – more – naturally
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Twenty Twenty
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