Urea Soldwine guides us to connect the Earth, awakens thanks, and guides to hear more deeply at the natural places around him.
Many modern Western cultures do not have a deep understanding of how we connect to the earth through collective identity, story or purpose. There is a feeling that, yes, the earth can be beautiful – but it is mainly seen as a source of entertainment or extraction, not necessarily as an integral part of us and the formation of generations to come.
In this guidance process, indigenous scholars and teachers, which are connected in Naawa and Maya, introduce a new way to consider our relationship with the natural places around us. It is a process that invites devotion, thankfulness and relationship, where our experience of the earth strictly leads to interconnection and being relative.
A meditation on connecting lands and stories
After each paragraph, stop and follow the guided meditation script below. Or listen to audio practice.
- If you haven’t already done so, turn off your devices or leave them in a different place where you will practice it. Find a place inside the easy reach where you feel relieved. If this place allows you to ignore the landscape, this is great. If you can sit outside, surrounded by natural landscape, and even better. Wherever you decide to sit, make it easy for yourself so that whenever and anywhere in your daily life you are able to act.
- Let your body rest in a way that helps you stay comfortably but carefully. Although you may find that some meditation ways is engaged in consideration with the closure of the eyes, in this exercise, keep your eyes soft but open, take your surroundings with a soft, wide, panoramic view.
- Pause Possess where your focus is. Just see where your brain is wandering. Where is your mind wandering? When is your mind wandering? How is your mind wandering? Just notice. Collect your attention gently. And bring it back to this current place and moment.
- Thank you for their welcome, request permission to enter the land. Open breath, anchor, presence. Look at the structure of these lands where you are. What are the odor, the scent, the fragrance? What are shapes, colors and colors? Tin, resonance, timberis, rhythm? What is their contact, their temperature, their stroke? What are their fun tastes? Even more subtle memories, imagination?
- Breathe, admit, recognize, welcome. Welcome the lands. Who are the palace land? What are they? Where are they? Parse lands are telling stories. They have voices. They sing. With intensive care, just as you want for a precious elder or a newborn baby, just stop to hear. What are you telling you right now? What do they sing about themselves? What is the story of them about you?
Pause to listen, as you will do with a precious elder or a newborn baby. What are you telling you right now? What do they sing about themselves? What is the story of them about you?
- It took a few moments to maintain this experience. Embrace our first opening in your shared sacred place, discovering the open welcome of the land. To welcome you, thank them for this opening. Take a deep breath and breathe the ground. Now let this experience flow.
- There are some indicators here to mobilize your experience. Feel each of these indicators when they are associated with your body, heart, brain, memory, imagination and it. Let you connect these questions to the world. What does it emerge? How is the land connecting to you? What are their languages? How are they being born? And how do you belong and reward it?
