Nature Connection

With so much chaos and noise in our modern world, remembering who you are on the level of feeling, consciousness, awareness, vision, intention, and Inner-Knowing is often quite difficult. The constant bombardment of information keeps us in our heads trying to process all of that information. As is a tendency for our species, we get identified with what we spend the most time doing, and today it is the case that we become identified with mental chatter - our stories about the world - and this can lead to a startling disconnection from the lived sentient consciousness of our very flesh and bone. 

 

Our bodies are alive, and life is conscious, sentient and aware. There is a knowing, a presence, and a life that can be made conscious within our bodies that is deep and ancient. This knowingness can be activated through tuning into nature with our full presence. By giving our full attention to a bird, the fluttering of a leaf in a tree, cascading shafts of sunlight, or the solidity of a stone, a remembrance is kindled within the heart. Our busy modern minds, caught up in the winds of the latest crazy fear, can find no rest in the thoughts and perceptions made available to us by mainstream living - but there is something stable and settled within the form of a scrub jay hoping around in the morning dew in your backyard grass. The blueness of feathers and the dear sharpness and sensitivity of the bird’s eyes remind your mind something about what is inside of you. 

 

Often, for modern people, it is difficult to focus the attention on the phenomenon of nature. The brain has been too habituated to focus on other things, things that have been perceived and judged as being more important. There is a normalized state of fear and anxiety which is the baseline that most modern people live in, and this energetic keeps people in a state of fight or flight, always needing to move on to the next thing. Fear drives the mind towards the to-do list. Nature, meanwhile, has no to-do list, but through it all things are accomplished, as said Lao Tsu. If we could be more like nature, we could re-orient ourselves to a far more peaceful and harmonious baseline. Imagine if your actions sprang from the blissful creative urge of nature or the inner-space of your consciousness rather than the driving anxiety of modern times? By aligning and attuning with nature, this becomes possible. Yet it requires a good degree of effort and application to retrain the brain to make space for the present moment. 

 

Through mentorship, it is possible to help a person retrain their neurological and sensory habits to re-tune into nature. There have been a few masters of this form of mentorship, my own late mentor Mac Stewart was one of them, along with the recently deceased Tom Brown Jr. Jon Young has done, perhaps, more than anyone else to develop the practice and process of mentorship needed for accomplishing this great challenge of helping people shift their attention from the chatter of the mind-stream, and into the even-flow, regulated, harmonious cycles of nature. With decades of training and study with these mentors, I am here to help you make this shift, to become present to the baseline peace and harmony which is already here, all around us, and within your every cell. By realigning the habits of your consciousness with this greater awareness of nature, you can begin to remember who you really are, and your vision for this life. 

 

Blessings,

-Sam McRee