Some people like to have parties and hang out with people to feel good, or have some great food, go on a hike, playing with their pet, the list is endless. As for me, the highest good is when I have a chance to sit in a stream with my bare feet in it. Just spending hours sitting there, as I’m doing now.
Here, at Buckhorn Springs, Southern Oregon, I’m on a nature retreat just before the autumn equinox. Such a perfect timing being on a healing land. Today is a perfect day for me to have my barefoot in this very special creek. It has healing minerals in it, the CO2 is bubbling up sometimes.
I’ve been sitting here for 2,5 hours realizing this land is a true healing land. Story tells that all the indigenous tribes decided to never fight on this land, They all brought their people on this land to heal. And they kept peace here. (Until the white folks came and pushed them out, very ugly story.) But, later there were better white people in history who tried to preserve what’s still left. The land itself.
I do feel tremendous healing energy coming from this area. A divine radiation. Literally working on my ego. Wherever I go, on the meadow, in the forest and right here in the stream, I feel it. It’s very powerful. It’s transforming me as I breathe.
At the stream I saw many beautiful insects. As they move feels like they are playing a complex but beautiful symphony. The blue dragonflies. My nation see them powerful messengers of Light and purposefulness.
I love learning about nature just by watching it rather than reading about it. Something mysterious involved and deeply grounding when I feel the connection between me and my surroundings just by my observation. True, that you need to stay in one spot for hours to recognize any pattern but it worth it. This is the ancient way of learning. Before we had books. Before we had internet. We learnt everything by observation and experiment and when we learnt something and we were sure about the pattern we shared our stories with each others. That’s how we gained knowledge. Listening to each other. That world was much slower but we were also much more connected to Earth and to each other.
Even today, for me and for many more, going slow, being in nature and practicing silence is the way to find our way back to our heart sense, to the true compass that we can trust. And the more time I spend in nature the more I’m sure that I can trust Life. There is something deeply intelligent how everything was created. Our bodies and the natural world around us, all the stars and other “invisible” beings. We all carry the same essence of Life. And that is where our power lies. Within.
