Wild Nature Heart
Journeys Into Reconnection
“The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong. Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.” – David Whyte, Sweet Darkness
“If we surrendered
to earth’s intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.” -Rumi
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This is for the women we work with (though much of it applies to all of us). What is instinct? It is the knowing that comes from listening to our animal bodies, and it is our true heritage as human beings. In my work with women there is something I find myself saying again and again.
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“You have good instincts.” Each time I say it, it is genuine and born of my amazement that, despite all the cultural messages designed to get us to doubt and numb our inner knowing, good judgment that comes from deep within (which is the best definition I can give for intuition) still somehow gets through.
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Not all the time. But often enough that I can say with certainty that there is hope for us.
Every time I say these words, “you have good instincts”, I become a witness to a woman taking back a little of her power. One woman’s shoulders get a little straighter. Another seems to breathe a sigh of recognition.
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Or, a woman’s eyes get just a little brighter with that spark that’s always been inside her, or she beams a smile as if to say “you see me!” And then I get to feel more vital too and my heart fills with gratitude for this sacred work I do. Like the woman who sings over the bones in a story told by Clarissa Pinkola Estes in Women Who Run with the Wolves, I help women to re-assemble all the parts of themselves by speaking these simple, magic words.
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Lately, I’ve been saying these words a lot to my daughter too. She is an amazing eighteen year old young woman now and her good instincts (along with her brilliant curiosity and her fierce courage) really do inspire me. The little girl she used to be (shown in this picture) was fiercely brilliant and courageous too.
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Children are innately intuitive. The trick is to hold on to that when we grow up. Clarissa Pinkola Estes says, “There is no greater blessing a mother can give her daughter than a reliable sense of the veracity of her own intuition. Intuition is handed from parent to child in the simplest ways; ‘You have good judgement. What do you think lies hidden behind all this?’ Rather than defining intuition as some unreasoned faulty quirk, it is defined as truly the soul-voice speaking.”
-Katie Baptist
Redwood therapy-Never fails 🐸🐾
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#trees #sacredpause #deepbreath #forest #reconnect
M is for Murmuration and Moving with it.
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” - Alan Watts
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#change #movement #fly #dance #flow #water #birds #alanwatts #beauty #nature
Get into things, and let them get into you.
#MondayMotivation
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#nature #reconnect #wildnatureheart #flow #play #water #earth #rivertherapy
Pelican Parades at Pt. Reyes National Seashore. “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” -Albert Camus
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#freedom #inspirationalquotes #wildnatureheart #Camus #nature #birds
🐾Not the first day
nor the second or third
but on the fourth
something ancient awoke in me
shouting,
"I am mammal"
clear and bright
made to move
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With sun-soaked knuckles
and dirty calves
I play through the meadow
among pop up wild currant
water lilies and wild onions
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and finally with happy muscles
and well-stretched ligaments
collapse exhausted
making my bed among the needles
of the mountain hemlocks
my home
#poetry #nature #reconnect #wildnatureheart
