This weekend I decided to return to nature reserve that I have visited to the past 3 years here on Long Island, NY. It’s called Wertheim and it’s located in the town of Mastic. There’s really nothing quite like going to the deep forest, a nature reserve, a marsh, or some sort of wild place that hasn’t been (too) altered by the hand of man. These places are quite magical and empowering. To walk amongst the deer, ducks, foxes, trees, fish, clouds, hawks, and the sweet spring air. How priceless these moments are. How refreshing.
Nature never ceases to show me her ways. When I step into a place like a nature reserve, I step into a sort of classroom where the lessons are infinite and boundless. A place where you can actually SEE life flowing. When you observe the ducks flying, the blades of grass cutting through the wind, and the fish jumping out of the water, you are witnessing nature’s stroke of the brush. A masterpiece in progress without an end.
So get out of the house, your routines, and fixed systems that you have chained yourself into… and wander into the forest for a stroll. You won’t regret it. You’ll feel nature’s healing powers almost instantly. And your worries will melt away into the nothingness.
I like to practice something I call “grounding work” to bring me back to the source, my roots. This goes a long way with relieving stress, confusion, and worry. What’s your grounding work?
Stepping outside of all forms of control. To be fully, wholly, and truly out of control. Outside of the control. Of any control. Of all control. Could you image such a thing? Could you let go of all forms of belief. All religious sects. All forms of academic titles. Who has such courage and fortitude to end this absurdity?
Each time we call ourselves “spiritual” the “scientist” the “christian” the buddhist” the “raw foodist” etc.. We lock ourselves into a box. And we immediately imprison ourselves. Limit ourselves. Bind ourselves to something manufactured, controlled, and maintained by the so-called society.
So we have the christians fighting the scientists. The buddhists fighting the hindus. The blacks against the whites. The poor against the rich. The vegans against the meat-eaters. The smart against the dumb. All the while, the individual is destroyed, belittled, and marginalized. Controlled by outside forces that mold and shape you to fit their agendas. Their motives. THEIR ways of living. THEIR definitions of what’s right and wrong.
Do you really see this happening? To take any position in any system automatically renders you the slave. The follower. The machine. And you can never be free when following another person, sect, religion, system, what have you.
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