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Becoming embedded into Nature and Self: tips and perspectives
It can be difficult to step outside of my day-to-day mindset and see things around me anew, from a different perspective. Creature of habit, I might go for a bush walk intending to be mindful and after twenty minutes still not have shifted my mindset I had at home....
Reflections about Perception and Relationship in Connecting
I want to discuss, very broadly and briefly, the role of perception and relationship in the way we experience life. This is because enhancing perception and human-nature relationships is the core of my NatureConnect approach for facilitating deeper states of...
Tuning into the Silence
When you go into nature it is often the sounds that have the greatest calming effect on your mind. Just as you walk into a landscape, you walk into its soundscape: all the sounds and their sources and directions and distances from the listener. It could be dominated...
The eye of metaphor in connection
Its amazing how powerful the learning can be when opening the eye of metaphor to the engagement experience. One of my connection activities is standing before a tree that draws me and viewing and touching it as if I were a wondrous child. I engage it with the eye of...
Reflecting upon connectedness and our world
When I reflect on my life and my world, as wonderful and troubled as it is, I wonder on what motivates people to act in a way that knowingly perpetuates our destructive systems. I look at behaviours that deliberately undermine the ecological and social fabric of our...
Mindfulness: a critical approach for dealing with inner pain & trauma
In reflecting upon the question or challenge of how am I to deal with unwanted negative feelings and emotions that stem from observing global systemic breakdown manifested through climate change, terrorism, nation state breakdown, domestic violence, suffering by a...
Dealing with anger, anxiety and despair in a world gone crazy
Do you look at the evening news, do you read the FB posts or read the online newspapers or blogs and feel the physical sense of being overwhelmed with fear, despair or trepidation about the state of the world? You know what I mean – that sinking feeling of...
Integrating meaning into our felt sense of psychic pain
I attended a meditation retreat on the weekend and experienced very deep altered states of consciousness. While most of the altered states were positive, loving experiences, a few were very dark and painful…..essentially about confronting my own inner traumas and...
Letting go of our armour
Walking along my favourite bushwalk the other day, I came across a tall pine tree growing between the track and the bubbling creek. I felt as if I were meeting an old friend such was my familiarity with its presence. I stopped to engage and feel its organic, towering...
Stage 1: Recognise
The first step in any journey for inner change is recognising the need to move beyond the suffering arising from disempowering situations and negative psychological states. You can’t commit to change unless you have the motivation to change (indeed, you need to...
Stage 2: Re-awaken
One of the key questions I think we all need to ask ourselves when committing to become more aware, to re-awaken to our inherent perspective is what do we have to relinquish or let die in order to experience this new perspective? To fully live, what needs to die...
Stage 3: Re-engage
In the third stage of connecting, we look to re-engage nature in a way that can alter our perceptions of the surface worlds around us. Deepening our perception alters awareness in a way that creates a portal of experiential insight into our inner world. It is through...
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