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Listening to the Web of Life

Listening is a language sometimes long forgotten.  A concept abandoned, years ago, when earth, ocean and sky were still honored and held sacred for their innate wisdom.  Today, though, it is not unattainable for us to sit and listen to all of life.

The sand, the wind, rock, tree and rain sing a song, just as animals and children do.  We, are invited guests here on this beautiful planet earth, with a fine tuned ability to listen with our hearts and minds, to the symphony all around us.

When we listen, rather than impose our thoughts onto people, places, and things, we experience the web of life and it teachings.  Learning to listen to inner guidance, our  body’s voice, subtle energy, and the heart is an art form that can be cultivated.

When we sit to listen initially, we may be confronted with the voices from the outer world and our ego persona’s, but choosing to go deeper, opens us to an inner world of wonder, peace, beauty and grace. It is from this place that universal heart intelligence speaks, and it is from this place that we truly commune and join with each other.

Children use play and fantasy to establish our inner guidance to inherently lead us towards our unique and specific gift or role in life. Circumstances, events, and culture typically lead us away from our listening to our inner barmoters. When we have been away or directed away from the inner voice, it finds another means to get our attention, our bodies.
This is the basis of mind-body connection.

Typically wealth is associated with financial fortune and yet true wealth accumulates from within, deriving from a state of well-being and wellness. Conscious aliveness in mind, body, and spirit lead to wellness which portends a prosperous and happy life, although the human condition creates dichotomies within us when we live without the intimate guidance of our soul and the spiritual sustenance of direct relationship with the Sacred and the Divine.

In our modern culture, the accumulation of things is advocated and reinforced as the means to a better life, and granted “things” can bring us comfort and ease, but real comfort and grace come from living integrated, not split off from our multi-dimensional beingness—our Spirits, our Hearts, our Embodiment, and our Intuition. Living only from a 3rd dimensional perspective makes this world mundane, heavy and all too real.

Thank goodness we are more than our bodies. Truly energy comes before matter, a scientific fact. And as we consciously and experientially get that, we learn to live energetically embodied, changing life for the better and in congruence with evolution. What we have aligned with in the past no longer serves our collective evolution, and as we shall see, the old paradigms will fall away as new conscious business models and governments establish themselves in service to the greater good.

As the earth’s well-being comes into full view, the scales will tip the balance towards restoration, encouraging the feminine archetype to take a leading role in coming times.

The intention of Earthkin & A Wealth of Wellness is to serve as a landing post and springboard to further our personal and collective conscious movement forward towards integration. As we each take more and more responsibility for our personal choices and our internal unconscious projections we will collectively bridge our world by incorporating ours hearts and minds into energetic awareness and aliveness forming new structures in of our environments, our bodies, and into our world which are sustainable and renewing for everyone.

Composting

Last year I decided to learn about composting. I picked up a free bin through the county and started a rudimentary pile. I threw all my kitchen scraps in with yard trimmings and turned it a few times, leaving it to basically rot through the fall and winter.

It was a mess, it stunk. and it was gross! To my surprise, in late February, when I checked it, the most beautiful deep rich brown soil was before my eyes. I was completely delighted. I made dirt!

I was so excited! I felt that I was taking responsibility for the refuse I created, and my excitment was akin to a two year old learning how to poop for the first time.

Our emotional, mental and spiritual garbage needs to be recycled on a regular basis and so does our physical trash. Composting puts me in touch with the Earth’s abundant natural resources and her innate intelligence. Participating in this act nourishes and feeds the earth element within me.

As we all become more and more comfortable with our own backyard we will be more and more connected to the natural rhythms of nature.

Composting does not have to stink if you follow the basic and easy guidelines. This year I have three compost bins going and I love it.

Happy Composting! The photo above is of my herb garden, 2006.

Biodegradable

Plastic is out and biodegradable is in. For years now I have been getting my groceries in plastic and paper bags, because I used the plastic bags to clean the litter box for my cats everyday throwing them out in the trash. Plastic doesn’t decompose for one-hundred years or more and highly toxic conventional kitty litter doesn’t either.It has been on my mind for years to begin using biodegradable bags to go along with the biodegradable litter I buy. Now, since the organic and health food stores no longer provide plastic bags, it encouraged me to change.

Yesterday I bought 30 biodegradable bags for $4.99. That will last one month or more because I don’t always clean the boxes every day. Hundreds of thousands of us are throwing away toxic cat litter in plastic bags everyday, let alone with kitchen trash bags we dispose of. Eliminating plastic altogether is a big job for all of us.

It is a wonderful act of love to adopt animals and provide homes for them and we can go further. Developing deeper kinship with the earth by making new choices creates a cleaner environment for us all, giving the next generations less to clean up, one choice at a time.