Cedar Tree
Allow yourself to notice how your energy is affected by
the natural world. Notice what happens to the air around you, to the light
around you in the presence of birdsong. Notice the difference in sensation as
you walk in the presence of trees. Become aware of the shift in your energies
with the scents of the forest -- the sweet scent of poplar, the rich scent of
cedar. Notice how the presence of an abundance of wild things holds you,
includes you.
An awareness of how the trill of a sparrow tickles your
energy field, how the calmness of cedar soothes your emotions and how the
trickle of a stream or the brush of a breeze move and change the contents of
your energy field helps bring you into a more profound sense of your place,
your origins and your destiny.
Paying attention to life can tell you all you need to know
about life. Develop an awareness to the seasons around you: the seasons of
nature, of people, of events, of circumstances. See the changes as a dance of
movement in relationship with you and in relationship to every other thing. To
move into awareness is to move into the essence of life itself. As you breathe
the seasons and know them without thinking, of all that happens around you,
you dance life. We are Cedar.
Although you may notice certain aspects of nature as you
walk by and you may hear us as we whisper to you in the evening, understand it
is all the other aspects of nature that surround us - the trees that are
farther from the path, the water, the air, the wind, the insects, the earth
that provide you with the depth of feeling you experience in places like
these. Alone, we have a rich and beautiful song. With all that surrounds us,
our song becomes a symphony. Come to us then, with gratitude and welcoming,
and include as well, all the elements seen and unseen that make up this
symphony you call conversation. We are Cedar Tree.
We scatter our seeds with great abandon, fulfilling our
need to express who we are. We do not rejoice if these seeds find fertile
ground and grow. Nor do we weep for the times that they do not. If the
conditions are right and the timing is right and the place is right, then our
expression will continue in physical reality. It is the joy of our expression,
whether in physical or not in physical that brings us a fulfilment of who
we are.
So look then, to your own lives, and know that your joy
and your fulfilment come from your expression, not from a need to continue
your expression in a particular way. Allow yourselves to be filled with the
joy of creative expression, to be filled with the life of opportunity and know
that this is who you are. We are Cedar. Be like us.
To take a walk in the woods for the sheer pleasure of
being in the company of trees and the other wildlife there is to sing your
song of love. To work at something you truly love to do, for the sheer
pleasure of doing it, is to be fully in the energy of your own being.
You may have deadlines to meet, schedules to keep and
responsibilities to uphold, but within that framework, you can love to make
the words in your memo the perfect words to describe what's in your heart. You
can make that trip to the store one of pleasure and laughter and discovery.
Listen to what your heart calls for you to do. It is your
best master. If you are afraid to skip because you fear you will look foolish,
who is your master? There is a time and a way for you to follow your own heart
and still make your own way within the framework of your life. How does it
call to you? Listen. And then live your own song.
Even when you live in the deepest recesses of city and
have rarely an opportunity to even see a tree, you can connect with Nature in
very real and practical ways.
Look at the materials around you. They carry the energies
of their origins as well as the energies of the manufacturing process, the
energies of the people who have used them and carried them, and the energies
of their current circumstances.
Is that desk made of Oak? Is a part of it made of Oak? If
so, you can tap in to the endurance, the power and the ancient wisdom of Oak.
Steel gets its origin in Iron. When you use a tool that is made of steel, you
can look deeply into the origin of this tool and feel the energy of Iron that
has allowed itself to be transformed into this new state. Look to the form and
structure of the tools, projects and objects that you have created in this
world. Notice how many of them are designed in a similar fashion to designs of
the Natural World.
You honour flight when you create an airplane. You honour
communication when you create a world-wide electronic network. You honour any
of us when you use our patterns, our growth and our materials in a way that
honours us, respects us and allows our unique energies to enhance your life.
You enhance us as we enhance you.
There is a balance to be found of your use of what you
find in Nature and your honouring its need to be as it is. In your hearts you
know where that balance is.
So allow yourself to seek the Oak in a desk, the energies
of Iron in a tool, the patterns of Nature in your structures and the qualities
of Nature in your relationships and activities and you honour us as we honour
you by providing these things.
Who judges you but yourself ?
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