Sensory
Our Senses and Nature saved our lives, even with a constant 4-6’ of snow on the ground.
Thank you for sticking with me this week as I explained a few of the strategies of my SIMPLE Method. I certainly didn’t create these strategies, but I noticed their importance when I sat in the silence and the space of working in/with Nature.
Nature always has, and always will be, our greatest source of healing.
It's our job to protect Her, just as She protects us. Reverence, stewardship… nurturing Nature.
When we really embody these strategies, we find harmony with our health. That’s why living SIMPLE is the ONLY effective way to transform your health. It’s the very aspects of health most people don’t mention—the subtle strategies that affect our health, wealth, and relationships.
I appreciate you investing your time to understand these core strategies further.
I’ll discuss deeper levels of Sensory input next week, but we humans love stories, right!? If you can first understand WHY it’s important to think about your senses, you’ll have a deeper interest in the mind-blowing aspects of these 5 6 senses we have…
How our Senses and Nature saved our lives, even when buried…
We noticed the moon in the sky during the day. Seeing the moon and the sun at the same time was something we’d never noticed before. (Have YOU ever noticed this!?)
We fell in love with the grouse, turkeys, deer, bobcats, groundhogs, red squirrels, and chipmunks on our property. We had new wildlife alongside the common birds and gray squirrels we knew.
An immature (>2 years old) bald eagle perched on our spruce tree.
We soon understood rural animals are much different from the animals of our suburban/urban past… much more cautious! Human animals aren’t much different in that respect. 😉
At work, I obsessively listened to health podcasts and webinars while caring for 12 greenhouses and 2 fields. Weeding, watching the resident geese have babies each year, befriending the crows, and spreading my awe for Nature with coworkers. These are the gifts Nature gave me for Moving to a new state, Exploring, trusting Intuition, and Loving Her.
How deliciously SIMPLE.
Most of us take our environment for granted and never think about the effect it has on us. Even as a nature freak all my life, I missed so much of what surrounded me daily… the abundance Nature provides for us.
The air here is crisp and clean. It’s pitch black and eerily quiet in rural towns. There’s nothing better than feeling the sun on your bare skin after a 6-month winter, where 3 layers of clothes cover your skin. Every year, I now yearn for that first late spring sunburn.
My god, the stars and planets and night… talk about a humbling experience.
That’s the night sky without street/business/porch lights. Ah, Venus in all her glory!
I started understanding—KNOWING—how intertwined we are with Nature. How similar we are to all that surrounds us. I began writing a book on the metaphors I saw between us and plants while I worked in fields of lilies, irises, ferns, and mums. (It’s still a work in progress!)
Have you had those moments of allowing yourself to get lost in Nature?
Maybe you had an ah-ha moment, solved a problem, or just found peace.
That’s what Movement and Exploration give you.
I vividly remember walking through our chrysanthemum fields that first July. I fixed broken water lines and adjusted the mums our resident geese misplaced by walking through the field. I checked for aphids on our plants.
I noticed the irony of walking on black weed fabric in 90+ degree weather, sweating profusely. I was caring for a plant that wouldn’t bloom until late August or September. Their fall blooms required a cold snap or drastic reduction in their fertilizer—stressors made them bloom. 👈
Here I was, sweating in the dog days of summer. Planning a future so drastically different from what I was experiencing right now. I was contentedly in 2 places at one time…
Wellness at the deepest level became clear…
-We need to plan for the future, despite our current situation.
-The stressors of life force us to bloom.
Two of the most powerful metaphors I’d learn…
Those 3 years in Nature gave us the recharge and strength we needed. Our Intuition was spot on, of course. You and I wouldn’t be having conversations about transformation and living SIMPLE had we not listened to our gut and moved.
I wouldn’t TRULY understand that planning 20 years ahead was hard, but absolutely necessary for health and wealth. That, my friend, is how Intuition, Movement, and paying attention to your Senses lead to a SIMPLE life.
I told you it wasn’t always easy and it won’t be… but it’s always worth it.
Next week, I’ll dive deeper into your Senses, so you understand why they’re so important. I teach about this topic deeper in my Transformation 101 and Elements of Ayurveda books/courses. But I’ll distill the most important pieces for you, and pass them along.
If you don’t have the level of health you want, this is a key strategy you’re unintentionally ignoring.
Until then, can you remember a struggle in life that later turned out to be a gift?
Is there a time your Intuition seemed wrong, but it wasn’t? Was it every wrong!? Because it’s not always correct!
Every made that scary physical move?
Please share your journey comments, so you can inspire others!
Yours in Health,
Alicia