The power of a tree

They stand quietly deeply rooted to the earth, there is no peace so lovely as being in the presence of a tree, according to angel intuitive Lorna Byrne each tree contains the essence of the tree angel. Lately when I’ve absorbed some pain and darkness from others or on those days my body wrestles to fight off my own negativity I go near to a tree.

Today I heard on our morning news radio show that in Canada nature is now being prescribed as a remedy for physical and mental health. It makes sense, even just gazing out on living green helps our immune systems and time off from the dominant strangle hold of modern technology is more and more essential to me lately much as I love connecting to others online time needs to be balanced and I must ground myself..

Today I fel myself in a lot of conflict over my concern with past pain in therapy and annoyed at all the figuring out and analysis that goes with sorting out how my own defences work. Then there are the times I reach out to help others in pain and in some way seem to end up absorbing it. Which makes me wonder how my own therapist copes.

Today I got out alone and felt freer when I leave my house and get out of my head which tries its best to do me in some days. There is a saying from AA “my head is a dangerous neighbourhood I try not to go in there alone”. This is where nature helps to change my perspective from a negative self centred one to one to one that can be more open and expansive. Trees give me shelter for a while reminding me too of the qualities that enable me to endure and try my level best to embrace the different types of energy weather that come my way.