Nature Spirits: Tree Spirits - V
You might ask what would happen if you go to the wrong tree. The answer is that this can never happen; there is no wrong tree, and whatever tree you find yourself at is the right tree, no matter how you got there. Ideas like right / wrong – “Am I doing this right?” – such ideas only apply to the world of concepts. In the world of feelings, there is no right or wrong, only here and now. How do you feel? No one can answer that question but you; so take responsibility for what you’re doing. The only way to learn how to trust your feelings is by trusting them.
Although trees don’t operate on a concept level, they are capable of talking to you. But this is not the main way they communicate, and to turn your time with them into a dialogue would be to tangle yourself up in concepts again, and take time away from their true healing function. So once you’ve learned to talk to them, best let them initiate any conversations, unless you have some pressing question to ask.
Somewhere in your vicinity, in a nearby park or woods perhaps, there is one particular tree which is your own special tree, no matter who you are or whatever virtues are proper to that particular tree. There has to be such a tree near you, because you couldn’t live in an area that was too far from a special tree of your own without soon going crazy.
It’s worthwhile to search around a bit to locate your own special tree – and if you go looking for it, I guarantee you will find it, whether you can talk with trees or not. In all likelihood you know it already. Your special tree can tune all your fibers at once. Sleeping, dozing, or just sitting under your special tree relaxes you completely, removes all your cares, and soothes your inmost soul. You feel that you are at home, exactly where you belong. The warmth, joy, and complete acceptance which you feel at your special tree is enough to recharge your batteries for days.
If you do nothing else of the exercises and techniques given in this book, but only go to the trees (for a few minutes at least) every day or night, then you’ll find after a couple of months that you are just plain happier all the time, without any obvious reason for it.
(excerpted from Thought Forms. Copyright © 2000 by Bob Makransky.
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