Listening to the plants and animals

Plants, wind, sun and rain have a vibe and everything natural has a vibe too. An indescribable aura that penetrates outwards and influences our mood, energy levels, ability to think and move through the world.

That’s possibly the most obvious thing anyone could say.

I know I’m not treading new ground here. Another way of saying this is everything has awareness and consciousness and an understanding of their place in the living world.

In my backyard I have a gigantic elephant ear fern that has quietly and without fuss grown as tall as a human man and given out immovable and dense trunk rooted deeply into the soil. No wind or storm could uproot her.

Some of her leaves are broken, some are silvery and glimmering like they’re covered in the tears of gods, these each skyward in supplication and joy as the spring sun beams down like a caressing gift. Her ‘elephant ears’ quivver with delight and yet she’s still humble.

From this being, I learned that I can’t pretend to be something I’m not and to be accepting of my current state and that the strongest growth always happens gradually, in humble increments adding up to a magnificent achievement. Sure there will always be something or someone bigger but beauty…abundant beauty is still found in the ordinary.

I met a nervous ladybug on walk yesterday , she hesitated on a log and close to my seemingly gigantic swollen flesh of my index finger and tried to scramble away in confusion. She didn’t know if I meant her harm, but I meant her only a long life and health and she eventually touched my finger and then walked away into the bush.

If you stop, put down your headphones and listen to the thrum of bees, the roar of the ocean or the melody of birds and you listen with your sixth sense you will hear the wisdom of the more-than-human.