As I write this post, Earth Day just passed and I spent the day hiking in the wilderness. I’d found a trail that is unmarked but well-maintained. J and I, and our dog were the only ones on that trail yesterday:
Something else about this hike? The mindfulness that it brought out in me.
To be sure, the daily meditation that I’m doing as part of the LIFE Project is having a profound effect on me. (I will talk about that next week when I summarize the month of April and begin the month of Simplifying and Decluttering in May.)
Yesterday was one of those days where I felt like I was 14 again, going on one of my first really long hikes with a teacher I adored.
(Yes, I adored my science teacher from middle school and stayed in touch with her until she passed away last year.)
The wilderness felt infinite and new – and so big. Seedlings were peeking out from the moist peat leftover from the autumn leaf fall. Everything was freshly washed from recent rains and the air smelled clean and pure.
I remember feeling this way when I was young – the world was so big, and filled with possibility. The forest – a place that I have always loved – felt like it would never end and couldn’t be touched or affected by humans….
It was in the woods yesterday that I commented, “I can’t imagine how every single being on the planet cannot enjoy this: the beauty, the serenity, the balance. This is what we have to save. People who love the forest will want to save it. Therefore, more people need to fall in love with it.”
It was then, the seed was born for the idea to do a guided meditation about planetary healing.
You see, one of the amazing things about meditation is that it teaches you to visualize the reality you want. Therefore, this guided meditation is based on a reality that I’m sure many of us would want…
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A guided meditation for planetary healing
Out beyond the ordinary routine of everyday reality,
There is a field, and I will take you there–
You walk to the edge of the town, and set on a path,
The earth gently crunches beneath your feet.
Shortly after walking into the dense forest,
You hear a stream. The waters bubble and flow by.
You walk until you come upon a meadow,
The foggy mist hugs the trees while you gaze at the dewy grass.
A log, perfect for sitting, parallels the stream.
The rays of sunlight beam directly onto the log, warming it with yellow beams–
And now you sit.
This is the world you imagine.
Birds happily chirp in the trees. Worms crawl by on the forest floor.
A deer silently grazes on wheatgrass and forbs, beautifully green and tender.
Butterflies graze on the nectar of purple flowers.
Bees happily buzz by looking for their favorite blue phlox or royal violet larkspur.
Fish have plenty to eat in their marine stream bed.
The rocks in the landscape have moss and tiny plants occupying their faces.
The air is pristine and fresh after a light rain.
Here, the peace is loud. Can you hear it?
It is the harmony of nature.
There is no war. There are no guns. Everything is balanced.
You breathe in.
One. Deep. Breath.
Then you breathe out.
One. Long. Breath.
You see, in the distance, an earthen home. You cannot see the people who occupy it, but it’s surrounded by gardens of native plants, with a garden of vegetables and fruits.
Instantly you understand that those people live in harmony with their environment.
They take no more than their fair share and give back all that they can to their Mother.
Give and take. Give and take. In perfect harmony.
You hear a bird you’ve never seen before.
It has landed on a branch near you. Your eyes drift up to the branch where it sits.
The first thing you notice are its eyes, gazing intently at you.
Next, it lets out a song – not of warning, but of welcome.
Because it knows your heart is pure.
This bird, with rainbow feathers, lets out the most beautiful song you have ever heard,
With pure tones of C, D, E, F and G in succession.
The music relaxes you and you can feel your heart beating more slowly.
You look back at the bird who is smiling at you in appreciation, for when you came to the forest,
You brought seeds you had collected previously, knowing it would be good for the birds.
Slowly, you get up and scatter the seeds in the meadow near you.
When you sit back down, the singing bird flies to the ground and forages for all the seeds you left.
Soon, more birds join in.
Before long, a score of birds enjoy in the delightful taste of seeds they know will nourish them and sustain long flight. Their song and chatter echo throughout the mountainside.
Around the bend, you hear a twig break and you’re aware that you’re not alone.
A light mist begins to fall, but it’s warm and cleansing.
A fellow human smiles back at you on his journey deeper into the forest. Your intuition tells you his heart is pure and is only sending out love.
In return, you send your own silent blessings carried on the vision of your smile. You reflect this love back at the other human.
Sitting back down, you smile. This forest is endless. It spans the planet.
Humans have come together, planting millions of trees. They have used their ingenuity and science to bring back animals that were on the brink of extinction.
They have brought back animals that were thought to be gone forever.
The ecosystem is in perfect balance.
You look at your clothes and smile. They wick the rain and you’re grateful for their protection.
But you’re also grateful for the communities who produced them.
Long ago, humans overcame their greed and capitalist ways, and instead looked to the artisans who could sustainably and responsibly produce clothing in harmony with the needs of the planet.
You remember those dark days – and are grateful they are gone.
For now, humanity has evolved into responsible beings who take only what they need – no more food than they need, no more water or clothing than they need. They give back in equal measure using their unique skills.
Indeed, humanity has become a true world community where everyone’s strengths and skills are honored and celebrated.
Artists create work using sustainably produced paint, or recycled products from the rest of the human community.
They create beauty in which an entire community gathers to see, and consistently use those beautified spaces for gatherings and celebrations.
Everything is recycled.
Indeed, the human heart recycled itself into a beating Whole.
Every human heart beats in tandem with everyone else. For now, they are truly, without a doubt, connected on a deep level – as they always had been, but now on a deep, intuitive level where they no longer ignore their True Self.
The humans have learned to listen to their hearts and cast out rays of love. LOVE in all respects.
They have learned that the suffering of one person is the suffering of all, so they eliminated it long ago.
The world became one and where there is a surplus of food, people now send it to regions where more is needed.
Places that had an abundance of solar energy send their excess to those who need it in regions that are shaded or in darkness.
Any walls they built were torn down; the materials were recycled to create buildings and dwellings in sync with the needs of the planet.
Humans responsibly manage their population now. Many couples long ago decided they would leave a different legacy than with their own progeny, but in their dedication to saving the planet.
And it worked!
Now there is an abundance of oxygen, their carbon footprint is Net Zero, all by-products are recycled anew.
Instead of many religions, they all came together as one, in the understanding that each has their own path to Enlightenment – in one cosmic ideology, devoid of dogma and theology.
All humans, in the realization of saving the planet, have saved themselves and all who dwelt upon it.
In so doing, they evolved to a higher consciousness – one in which their hearts became pure.
In this new age, there is peace.
It is because every person now realizes that it begins within. That with enough people creating individual peace, it spreads and changes the face of the earth – forever.
Their hearts see only Truth.
This truth includes powerful love, powerful intuition, and the desire to exist in harmony with all surroundings.
Now, there is no competition.
Only cooperation.
No one person has to take more than another.
People exist to give and be of service, not expecting anything in return.
Long ago, the climate returned to its normal: the snow-capped mountains continued to exist, and the glaciers that had begun to disappear, grew and grew until they occupied their previous space.
The bleached coral reefs came back from their demise and humans took all their pollution from the sea.
The polar bears now have enough ice from the glaciers to walk out on them and catch abundant fish in the sea.
The whales still speak in their sophisticated language, celebrating their clean and beautiful aquatic home.
Humans got rid of their corporations that exploited themselves and the earth’s resources and instead, grew their local communities, utilizing local resources to build unique and vibrant, balanced neighborhoods and municipalities.
Every human touches the earth with bare feet every day. This joining of person to planet provides needed communication with the rhythms of nature to understand the needs of the planet, animals and world community at any given time.
Humans faced, embraced and acknowledged their mistakes of the past – and actively learned from them.
They became one Human Race, no longer separated by the color of skin, language, handicap, sexual orientation, gender, or religion.
They have transcended it all.
Now, every person is equal. Every person receives fair compensation for a day’s work, and every human acts with responsibility and a duty to help all who need it.
Homelessness was eliminated when they reached out and actively helped all those who had fallen on hard times and eliminated the term “scarcity” from their psyche.
Through living in higher consciousness, humans learned to overcome disease and lack. From it, they have become beacons of light in all dark places.
They treat animal people and the tree people with equal respect. They always ask permission before ever taking. They tread on the rock people only after acknowledging their gratitude for the terra firma the rocks provide. They respect the insect people and fully understand their role in the ecosystem. They respect the mountain people and respectfully rebuilt them in full apology for once having blown them up in the name of greed. They respect the water people – the streams, the rivers, the lakes and oceans – and have vowed to keep them as pristine and beautiful as they were many millennia ago.
Now, if there is ever an imbalance, humans know to correct it immediately, using their intuition and communication with each other and the planet to restore harmony.
They operate only with love. And love, they know, is the highest form of consciousness. They are forever grateful.
I hope you enjoyed that guided meditation.
Until next week, friends.
Some say that I’m a dreamer…but I’m not the only one….
Such a beautiful walk Cyndi.. And so loved listening to your voice within that meditation of a future in harmony where we unify with nature and her creatures for the betterment of our planet and all in existence. A truly wonderful meditation of a vision of a future where we work and live for the community and good of all. In peace and harmony, restoring our planets oxygen supply with the love of trees… No longer distroying, polluting and killing..
I loved it.. And your photo’s .. So pleased you had a wonderful Hike..
🙂 Have a beautiful week.. 🙂
I will be back and put you in touch with Alia.. whose visions of another world are beautiful too.. I am slowly reading through her back posts..
And know you will enjoy.. I will be back with a link.. She is living within a community… 🙂 and loving it .. 🙂
Sue – ah, thank you, sosososo much! Hehe, I think I might be gaining a little confidence – the more I do it, the more I think it helps me to get better. 🙂
I could so envision that future if we but just listened to our hearts. I think this future is possible, but yes, we must take heed. Can you imagine, though? A future where we work and live for the community and the highest good of all!? I’m confident that perhaps enough people will wake up and come together to create this reality.
Yes – this was the hike I spoke of when we headed out on Saturday. We went to a place called Water Rock Knob and there is an unmarked trail. I love it because no one usually is on that trail and I can let my doggie run free….you know, your beautiful slide show inspired me to take a few photos – I hadn’t known I would use them for this post, but I thought I would take photos just in case. 🙂 Thank you for connecting me to Alia. I went to her blog for a moment before I needed to head to work this morning. What beauty and tranquility! I can’t wait to learn more.
I hope you have a wonderful day/week sweet friend! I cannot express how much our conversations mean to me. And, someone came by yesterday who read all our comments here and commented that she loved them. 🙂 Just thought I’d share. I hope you’ve had a wonderful rest of your weekend and start to your week in the allotments and being outside. Sending big hugs! xo
The link I spoke about
https://newearthparadigm.wordpress.com/2017/03/29/time-to-imagine-the-cities-of-light/
Sue – thank you for sharing this link – so that I’ll remember but also so that others can see it, too. <3
Very much did enjoy this meditation walk with you. I seriously look forward to hearing from you on Mondays now as your good thoughts and energy always seem to start my week off on the right foot. So, thank you for that and so much more. Happy Monday once again. Hugs and wishing you a blessed week ahead now, too!!! xoxo <3
Janine – aww, and I also look forward to your early Monday morning posts. 🙂 You make me smile so big! This is my mission: to put out good thoughts and beautiful things out into the world so that I might make it a better and more-beautiful place. Thank you for your steadfast friendship and I hope that you have a wonderful week. Happy Monday, too! Hugs and wishing you a blessed week yourself. Hugs to the girls. xoxo <3
You and I won’t live long enough to see the full extent of the damage being done, but it will happen, sooner rather than later, and that saddens me beyond belief, Lil Sis! Beautiful stuff here….hopefully it will help millions….thousands?….just one person?….everything helps, and writers need to get on board and do their share.
Hugs from Oly
Big Bro – sigh. I hope we get ahold of ourselves before we go too far. But then again, maybe if it’s already too late, then the ingenuity of the human spirit might (maybe? perhaps?) take us back from the brink. But you’re right: everything is cumulative. What we’re doing now won’t be seen until the future comes about and we suddenly realize, “oh boy!” But, I *do* hope that if we writers, artists, and avant garde minds barrage the world with messages of goodwill and hope, that perhaps we can turn things around. Sending you big hugs and sending you thoughts of gratitude: for our friendship, and hopes for a wonderful week. 🙂
Stopped by to thank you for following my blog. I think we are on similar spiritual paths though I’m much more quiet and reserved about mine. Always looking for fellow travelers. I’ll be perusing here as time permits.
Hi there, Marlene! Thank you also for stopping by and leaving such a lovely comment. Similar paths and fellow travelers. I love it! 😉 Likewise – I apologize ahead of time if I don’t comment regularly: sometimes my life gets a wee bit consumed by the day job, but I’ll catch up when I can.
In any case, I had a great time reading your latest post at your blog. I hope you have a wonderful week and thanks again for your sweet words.
This was great Cyndi. You are a natural. Your voice is made for guided meditations!
I plan on listening to this again 🙂
Aww, Denise! Sweet friend! Thank you so much! You know, the more I do this (I think I’ve done three now, plus videos), the more comfortable I feel. And I want to send out beautiful things and good vibes to all the peoples! 🙂 I hope you have a wonderful week. That Saturday night call in was a hoot! 😀
That was very beautiful, and I’m glad you included an audio version to go along with it. But the audio cut out at, “Their hearts see only truth.” Was that intentional or a glitch? Anyway, thank you for this uplifting meditation. Are you going to be doing these as a weekly/monthly thing? Or even like repurposing them into a podcast (ahem). =)
Chris – hey, hey! 🙂 Aww, shucks, thanks! Sorry the audio cut out at that point – eh, it was a glitch. Phone recordings. Bleh. Haha. But maybe it’s an “intentional glitch.” 😀 I’m really enjoying doing these – in a way that I hadn’t anticipated. It’s really fun sharing these words to give out hope and inspiration. I have done a few so far and I think that I want to at least do them once a month. I *have* been thinking about a podcast. The biggest reason I haven’t, yet, is time. But, hopefully that will change in the near future when the school year concludes and I’ll have time to investigate how to do a good podcast and get a good microphone. It’s coming: I’ve definitely planned on it. In fact, I ordered a microphone in November, along with a pop filter and such. But, the microphone didn’t have a USB port (only a cable to hook into an amplifier), so I sent it back. And figured I wasn’t quite ready anyways. BUT, I know what I need to order and as soon as I’m ready…hehe. Thank you for the gentle nudge and gentle reminder. 🙂
You are welcome for the link Cyndi.. and yes.. one day I know it will happen.. Maybe sooner than any of us will imagine.. Because I also feel deeply in Mass Consciousness tipping the scales.. and when enough of us do wake up and see what we are continually doing to our planet.. We will start to work together..
I also have had a deep sense of ‘knowing’ that, that time is now running ever quicker as our Earth Mother gives us her own signs over and over which we are not heeding..
I just hope we do not have a mass exodus event before it triggers more to wake up. But I often think that this maybe what it will take before Mankind really begins to open his/her hearts to harmony and Unity Consciousness of all living things..
Thank you Yes we had a wonderful weekend.. So pleased you did too.. Enjoy your week.. take care.. and I am so pleased others are also gaining from our conversations..
Now I am off to bake some bread.. 🙂
And will be back while its rising.. 🙂
Love and Blessings my lovely friend
Sue xxx <3
Sue – YES! One day it will happen. I *hope* and envision this. Yes…I feel that, too. I’m not yet as “in tune” as you are (you can just see and feel your connection to Source), but I’m working on it. And I do feel it. There’s a restlessness in the people. And they’re getting tired of turning to pills or artificial means to address their depression and anxiety and feelings of emptiness. I see this on the college campus where I work – so many students who are on medication and who feel like there’s not enough time and they’re always stressed….I feel that at some point soon, folks will realize there is another way. This generation coming up gets a lot of flack for being the “me” generation, but you know what? I see differently. They *yearn* to help each other and to be of service. They want to do good. I see it. I feel it. So, perhaps they will find a better connection soon, work together and join in collective healing.
But I’m with you: a mass exodus makes me shudder. Perhaps enough people waking up NOW will reverberate around and trigger a tipping point – for a better future.
I found an interesting youtube movie/series that I thought I’d share with you: it’s called “Spirit Science” and there are lessons in 12-minute segments. It talks about chakras and channeling, some of which I hadn’t heard of before. The animation and the voice are a little hard to not focus on at times, hehe, but I’m intrigued. It’s neat that others are doing stuff like this, too. Many others.
As far as your week, I hope you have a wonderful one, too! Enjoy making that bread! I love to make bread…haven’t in awhile, but the aroma is just so *wonderful*. I need to look into a no-dairy version (working up to plant-based diet), but that shouldn’t be too hard. Hehe.
Sending you warm hugs, blessings, love and light. So grateful for you! xo
I am smiling broadly.. why.. because I subscribed to Spirit Science some years Ago And I enjoyed the one on eating and health.. 🙂 Yes the squeaky voice is disguised lol.. but I do think their vids are excellent in what they are giving in advice..
Wonderful that you are watching what I intuitively got guided to years ago 🙂
Sue – haha, that’s great! 😀 I’m smiling, too! 😀 The squeaky voice is fun, hehe. I’m going to manifest a guide… 😉 That’s incredible about what you said – that you intuitively got guided….I love this!
Cyndi! Your voice is so soothing… making it a wonderful guide for a meditation. You remind me with this post that I don’t have to take a half hour to meditate. Even less than 10 minutes may get the results I desire. I like reading about your outings, including the hike for Earth Day. Like you, I was out on a trail that day, celebrating our beautiful planet. May your weekend be as amazing as you are <3
Christy – aww, shucks, thank you, sweet friend! It doesn’t take much to be mindful, does it. 🙂 Just holding a vision of the reality you want to create works wonders. I’m glad you enjoyed this and the little day trips we take out to the forest. 🙂 I’m so glad you were enjoying the fresh air and what the earth has to offer. May our blue marble live long and prosper. 🙂 I hope you’ve had a wonderful week! Sending you big hugs and warm wishes for a wonderful weekend, too. xox