Find Your Tree

I'm in the midst of "move madness" so not posting a lot, but within all this busyness I've managed to stay surprisingly centered and even "rooted." I attribute this to the fact that I've found my tree friend and continue to make time for that relationship no matter how busy I get.

Yes you read that right: I found my tree friend.

There is a tree in a nearby forest that I visit almost every day when walking my dog. I put the back of my heart chakra against it and plant my feet on its roots, sometimes also holding the dog up to the front of my heart chakra, which all 3 of us really get a kick out of. I'll stand there like that for 5 minutes or so, letting it send me energy, insights, and various forms of its natural love for all beings and connection to the Earth.

The tree teaches me, heals me, grounds me, and nourishes me.

Then I turn for a minute or so before I go and put the front of my heart chakra to the tree, so that I also give it a little love in return.

The trees in that grove in general have become a bit of a friendly neighborhood I'm a part of, but that particular tree is my friend there.

Is there a tree where you live that you could cultivate a loving relationship with?

Maybe you're not into chakras. But you could just sit or stand with physical contact in some way, and simply relate to it as a conscious, loving being relating to another conscious, loving being. Are you willing to feel love for a being that isn't ambulatory like you?

It can't walk. Can't really move it's arms, unless you consider the wind moving its branches that. I suppose it is possible the trees could call forth the wind. I've had that experience as a human, and they are far more tapped in than I am in terms of connection to all of life, so maybe. But I don't think of them as engaging in deliberate movement. They are stationary. Their roots gradually move in search of water and their leaves grow toward the sun, but they don't walk or talk, or even bark or meow. So we don't relate to them naturally as being both alive and conscious. We don't think of them as having a sense of self, where we might recognize such for a pet, because they aren't ambulatory or vocal like us, and our standards for "self-aware" are fashioned after our own experience of life.

So I ask again, can you break out of that limiting belief set? Can you relate with love from one conscious being to another, giving and receiving, even if only one of you walks and talks?

If you can, then find your tree. Cultivate that relationship. It may just be one of the most important ones of your life.

If you do it today, come back and tell me what it taught you.

(Photo source: Pixabay)