15/02/2021
Visit your breath. One, two, three: be here, make a commitment to the current moment.
With closed eyes, imagine your forest. What kind of trees can you find there? Can you see a little sunlight sparkling through the emerald-green fir trees?
Feel your feet, may you be barefoot, or not. Imagine your feet touching the slightly swampy, muddy, brown forest earth. What do these first steps into your forest feel like? Can you connect to the thousands of roots?
Let your imagination go deeper: What does the forest look like below the surface? Like a network of glowing wires, intertwined, thicker toward the top, thinner and more complex the deeper we look. It’s a world we can only visit with our imagination. It’s the bond between the trees—woven together, communicating, like one big organism.
Feel your hands. What do they feel like? Do they hold on to the duties of everyday life? Can you bring softness to them, make them touch one of the big, old trees, feel their structure, the lines that were carved by weather and life?
If you can be gentle in touching the tree, can you be gentle with yourself too, for you are now a part of the forest, a part of this big, magical ecosystem?
Be still, be here, be firmly rooted like your favourite tree.
