Humans are electromagnetic beings connected to the energetic landscapes around us.
Our current context is excessive in electromagnetic fields and whirling, shifting, dense energies that tug for our attention. It also normalizes frenetic, unbalanced, distracted energy while simultaneously selling individualized “diagnoses” and “solutions.”
May we pause and remember the sun, the water, the trees, and the soil.
This is our medicine.
We know this. And we forget.
We walk around in plastic shoes and scroll screens for help to “heal” and “reconnect.”
And the sun shines and the water pulses and the trees tell the news.
And the soil, oh the soil, how it holds us as we spin.
Go outside. Take off your shoes and socks.
Place your bare feet upon the soil.
Stand or walk or sit.
Look up. Look down.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
Let your hands dig.
Laugh with the worms and say hello to a bird.
Savor the richness between your toes and underneath your fingernails.
Don’t dust yourself off or wash your hands.
Let the minerals of the soil mingle with your skin.
Feel the ground receive your swirling thoughts.
Feel the slowing down.
Feel the earth absorb what you don’t need.
Feel the returning to yourself.
Always the soil receives you and returns you to yourself.
Love, Melissa
Related posts: You are water; What do you love?; You are frequency
Additional Resources:
Perelandra Garden Workbook: A Complete Guide to Gardening With Nature Intelligences by Machaelle Small Wright
Get Grounded, Get Well: Connect to the Earth to Improve Your Health, Well-Being, and Energy by Stephen T. Sinatra, Sharon Whiteley, Dave Asprey
Good Nature: Why Seeing, Smelling, Hearing, and Touching Plants is Good for Our Health by Kathy Willis
Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth by William Logan
Zach Bush (zachbushmd.com); soil health and the gut biome
Farmers Footprint (farmersfootprint.us); education, community, transformation
Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner (picture book)
Mud Book by John Cage (picture book)
Soil health children’s reading list from NACD
Listening to Children
Read to learn more: It’s not what you think it is
Button Snail Hum is a pollination project of Noticing Matters.
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