“The formation of attraction relationships helps any entity, including your self, to be in a more full, stable, and secure way. The greater number of balanced supportive relationships an entity has, the more stable is its being.” Michael Cohen
Our brains develop in relationship to others. When we feel valued, loved, understood non-judgmentally – we feel we matter- and this sense of safety and security forms a foundation of resilience on which to build our continuing development and evolution.
When we are in relationships that stabilize us around a trustworthy sense of acceptance and support we learn to develop trust in our competence and mastery and interact in the world from our inner sense of connection and security.
Establishing a secure relationship with a “Safe Other” facilitates our inclination to creatively use our strengths to “broaden and build” social, emotional, and psychological capital for our well being.
Nature is ready and willing to extend a part of itself as a Safe Other for you to be with, converse with and feel loved by.
Nature Being Safe Other ~Guardian Plant Friend ~Practice
Purpose: To find and connect with a Plant which is willing to be your Nature Being Safe Other – Guardian Plant Friend.
To Do
Follow your Attractions to a safe and lovely outdoor space where there are Plants or a Plant that you are attracted to asking to be your “Nature Being Safe Other- Guardian Plant Friend”.
Sit or lie on the ground next to this Plant.
Put your hand on your heart and begin Heart Breathing. Bring your attention to your Breath. When you feel relaxed and ready ask this Plant which attracted you if it is willing to work with as your Nature Being Safe Other- Guardian Plant Friend.
If your sense of attractions increase – continue.
If your sense of attractions decrease or are not present – thank this Natural area and follow your attractions to another natural area.
Once you have connected with an attractive Plant, ask permission to work with this this Plant as your Nature Being Safe Other-Guardian Plant Friend.
Relax and let this feeling of attraction to this Plant and your imagination take you to a time and place in your life – either past, present, or future imagined – where you felt the most nourished, supported, and secure in your surroundings and imagine your self being present with your Nature Being Safe Other – Guardian Plant Friend.
Recognize that this remembered – past, present, or future imagined- place and Nature Being Safe Other- Guardian Plant Friend, feels good, safe and nourishing to you because many of your life’s desires are fulfilled as you imagine this time and place with this Nature Being Safe Other -Guardian Plant Friend.
Think of this good feeling fulfillment as part of your psychological home and safe haven- as a safe Guardian for you.
Spend some time savoring your experience, feelings, and sensations of being fully present with your Nature Being Safe -Other Guardian Plant Friend.
Keep breathing these feelings and experiences into the whole of your body.
When you feel complete take a breathe and bring your self back to your own self and time and place.
Thank your Nature Being Safe Other -Guardian Plant Friend for sharing it’s self with you.
Before you leave this space:
Jot down some key words that describe your experiences of finding and being with this Nature Being Safe Other – Guardian Plant Friend.
Continue on to Reflections to complete your Guardian Plant Friend – Nature Being Safe Other Practice.
Nature Being Safe Other – Guardian Plant Friend
Reflections
“When you experience sensations you experience Nature in action. A vital way to know more fully any sense or feelings is to put it into words. When you discover a natural feeling or sensation, write it down … and discuss it. This is very important. It connects your educated rationality and language senses with your other natural senses. In time, this enables Nature to speak through your heart, thoughts, and voice.” Michael Cohen
- Write down your experience of doing the activity of finding your Nature Being Safe Other Guardian Plant Friend.
- What does meeting and connecting with your Nature Being Safe Other Guardian Plant Friend mean to you?
- How do you feel having made this connection with your Nature Being Safe Other Guardian Plant Friend?
- Where any visions or inner journeys sparked by your visit with your Nature Being Safe Other Guardian Plant Friend?
- What is being revealed about your self through your Nature Being Safe Other Guardian Plant Friend meeting and connection?
- Is there personal guidance for you embedded within your Nature Being Safe Other Guardian Plant Friend meeting and connection?
- Does your Nature Being Safe Other Guardian Plant Friend activate a sense of any of the following:
Wholeness
Self-esteem
Safety
Support
Connection
Healing
Belonging
Hope
Possibilities
Any other - Explain how these feel to you and what it means to you.
- Does this Experience enhance your sense of self-worth? How? Why?
- Your confidence of your Sensory Intelligences and Nature ?
- How might this Nature Being Safe Other Guardian Plant Friend Experience be used to enhance your Wise Woman Wortcunner practice?
- What other thoughts, feelings and experiences come to mind about your Sensory Communication with the Web of Life?
- Three most important things you learned:
- Your experience in nature shows you that you are a person who gets good feelings when (list 3):
- Summarize your experience with this activity. What have you learned:
On a head (thought) level?
On a heart (feeling) level?
On a hand (behavioral) level to do in the future?
What's on your mind?