11/05/2025
Yes I am a tree hugger! If you’ve never tried it, I highly recommend it! It’s one way I show love to the beautiful GAIA, Mother Earth. It’s a living, breathing reflection of our cyclical nature and deserves the same respect we show ourselves. Plus if you ever feel heaviness, try hugging a tree. It can transmute all of that energy.
Being kind to ALL living things can be a challenge sometimes. Whether it be a person, an insect, an animal, etc. we do have choice to respond in a kind way. And we can practice being kind just for today! I still struggle with being kind to things like mosquitos, roaches, wasps. I often react rather than respond because it’s engrained in me. So I have to work real hard at my belief systems around these creatures.
And the other place I struggle to respond and not always react is with loved ones that may say something triggering or harsh. I try to remember that I don’t have to match their energy or give them the pleasure of a reaction. But I am human! And sometimes it gets the best of me.
Did you know that some phobias are embedded in our psyche by just being human? Humans have experienced living in all kinds of environments with real threats throughout time and therefore we can inherit the same response to something that is really not that threatening. It just takes continuous conscious awareness. Which is one of the hardest things for humans to develop. There must be a desire.
So just for today, as I lay on my hammock and look up at a wasp nest forming I will go do my research to see the kindest way to get rid of them without harming them. 🫣
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