In recent years, I've felt a greater yearning for nature.

I don't know if that's because my life patterns and aspects of my livelihood are more dependent on using devices, with nature then providing an antidote to the effects of the virtual world. Or that I'm more tuned to what my body and soul need. It might be a combination of both.
 
This yearning I feel, and the nourishment I'm gaining, feels magnified several fold in recent weeks. With much of humanity in lockdown, and having paused many of its activities (I know this has started to change!), one plus is the cleaner air, bluer skies, more pronounced birdsong, the calling of the radiant plants. It's drawn me in, and it's almost as though I both love it and I can't get enough of it.

I hear a message that nature is singing. The song, with its beautiful rhythm, is reminding us that we are part if it. It's as though we're being called to remember who we are, and where we belong, what's our real home.

Our New Story

There's a new story to be written. It's not a story where we know each and every step. But the old story we have lived, of being fractured from nature, is not a story that serves us or the planet. 

We are being called to be true to our deepest self, to our true nature. To honour all of our being. Collectively, the question we need to ask is, what does that mean?

In what ways can we apply our energies, such that we honour our selves, and serve life, rather than degrade it?

The time for business as usual is no more.

As well as nature and the wild out there, a part of our nature that we often marginalise is the wild part in us. As a society we're not very good with the messy aspects of our selves. The paradigm of linearity doesn't hold the unpredictability of our messy, uncomfortable emotional world very well. Rationality and feelings aren't usually common bedfellows.

Yet if we deny the wild parts in us, they don't go away. They gain strength, and run the show behind the scenes through unconscious drives - disguised in the covering of rational inadequate explanations, because such reasoning holds more currency in the current paradigm.

We need to give space for the emotional world. We need each other to support the collective re-writing of a story that embraces this reality. The emotional world has currency. Just as nature has.

Coming Together

This Thursday (4th June 2020), a few of us are coming together to honour our body and emotions. We'll be hanging out for just under an hour on a zoom call (yes, I know, technology!), as happened two weeks ago. I'll be guiding us through an exercise or two that will support us to both tune in to what we're really feeling, and also to be more at ease with it.

It's amazing when we just sit with what is real for us. Even if it's uncomfortable, it begins to ease and soften. We open into parts we've blocked, and feel more at home in our self. Insights may arise, or they may not, but our receptivity to our heart increases.

If this nurturing time appeals to your soul, there's a link below to save your place. There's the option to join us this Thursday, and also - if you scroll far enough on the link - to do so in a fortnight . You can select one or both!

Emotional Decluttering and Renewal Online Circle

Date options: Thu 4 Jun and Thu 18th Jun, 3:00 pm - 3:50 pm BST

Via Zoom
Due to many more of us being in financial hardship I am currently offering this as a Free / Pay as You Feel event.

Register Your Place HERE

Alternatively, if you feel you would prefer more personal attention and support to work through any difficult issue you may be facing, then click this link so we can have have a chat. There's options for private coaching, and also powerful emotional breakthrough Journeywork.
 
If you have any questions or comments on any of the above, feel free to share below, or drop me a note on my contact page.

I wish you a great week, and hope you also get a chance or three to immerse into the wild!

Warmly,

Muzammal
(PS If you have responsibility for a workplace experiencing distress that might benefit from a similar/adapted session to the above, just drop me a note to get the conversation going).