'DON'T FORGET YOU ARE ALSO A PERFECTLY GOOD ANIMAL.'

‘You’ve spent your whole life learning to be a good person. Don’t forget you are also a perfectly good animal.’ _{Rory Miller, Martial Artist and Writer.}

In game reserves in Africa, many Game Rangers have had the experience of suddenly, inexplicably, becoming aware of imminent danger in time to avoid it; or of being able to track an animal simply from a sense of knowing where the animal is in an area that could be several square miles in size. It’s not uncommon in these cases hear a Game Ranger explain what happened as an example of the ‘bush talking’ to them.  

This sort of experience is not confined to the wilds of Africa; it is available in any bit of wild countryside and even suburban parks large enough to have mature trees and some wild fauna.

But why would you want to let the natural world talk to you? I could say try it and see and I hope that somebody reading this will do just that. However in the so called 'developed world', too many of us are identified with the world we have constructed and alienated from where we originated. To put it another way, ‘You’ve spent your whole life learning to be a good person. Don’t forget you are also a perfectly good animal.’

This alienation has come at a high cost and the best way to evaluate that cost is to ‘let the bush talk to you’. Here’s how you do it:

Step One: Go out into the wild country side and go deep enough into it to feel you’re actually in it. You don’t want to be able to see the car park or a boundary onto a road or some developed area.

Step Two: Move your awareness to your heart and say to yourself the word ‘soften’. What you’re doing here is actually commanding your heart to soften.

Step Three: Pause when you’ve made the command and notice what it is you’re becoming aware of.

Step Four: Keep repeating steps three and four until you’ve had enough.

That’s it!

Notes: allow your mind to entertain anything in the moments of pause; resist the urge to interpret or explain what’s happening to you. Notice, when it seems that the ‘bush’ actually is ‘talking to you’, how that makes you feel.

            All comments and questions welcome and thanks for looking in,

Rex
(Picture found in public domain)