The Story about My Healing from Trees

 

Trees have been my saviours on many occasions, and were nearly the death of me once when I was involved in a car accident that narrowly missed a tree head-on (my life literally flashed before my eyes)

 

When the first covid lockdown happened​ sitting with the trees, and in tranquil nature, brought such relief to my way-overwhelmed brain and sense of mental unwell-ness.

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I was able to find a serene sense of peace despite all the covid-crazy going on, this  brought resiliency and ability to stay on track mentally & emotionally.

 

The trees - and all of nature - called me home to the sense of stop! and showed me the opportunity this offered - to come into a new, honouring & reciprocal relationship with the natural world - that normally my busy life stopped me having.

 

This invited me into a whole new world of awareness & presence where I’d slowed down enough to begin to enter an altered state of receptivity, where I began to hear what the trees and nature had to say in support - a sort of mentorship if you like. 

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There is such intelligence in the natural world ​. So much magic going on in every moment in the natural world - like the trees making oxygen for us to breath, like the swallows finding their way to and from Africa, like the plants using light to create food for themselves with photosynthesis, I could go on and on and on….

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I believe alongside this intelligence is a sentience.

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During this covid-crazy time (or the big-pause as I began to call it) I suffered a back injury,

that made it difficult to walk or move around.

 

The trees called me to them for healing. I was invited to attend 6 trees for 4 days-each for healing.

I would lie on the earth on a blanket with my feet on the tree (sitting was v. painful) I quickly learned

that I needed to activate my parasympathetic nervous system in order for the healing to begin.

 

Each time I dropped enough into the rest and digest state an energetic flow would begin moving

from the tree into me. Each tree had a different feeling. for e.g. Beech felt light green and gentle, Willow felt purple and rooting.

 

Each had wisdom to share too.

 

Oak told me to get in the river for cold-therapy. I resisted for 3 days, on the 4th day of being told this,

I relented. It was the best thing I did  - my pain would be relieved and I could walk with ease for a little while. It was also sooo good for my mental health and helped bring all the inflammation down. My Acupuncture therapist later said (when lockdown eased) that this was the best thing I could have done.

 

There is so much wisdom & support available to us from the Trees - they really do want to help us humans - if we could just slow down enough, & take ourselves in to the parasympathetic (rest and

repair mode) nervous system, calming ourselves sufficiently enough, to enable us to open up to it with our hearts, ears and other senses.

 

I know from experience, that unless I do this initial slow-down process the trees and the nature are harder to hear, and certainly the healing energy from trees does not start to flow till I activate that state.

 

I want to share the teachings the Tree’s gifted me - so it keeps on giving in ever wider circles 

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