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I am grateful for nature.

I have a deep love of nature. It feeds me in a way that nothing else has ever been able to. Within this love and gratitude for the natural world is a recognition of the natural world within us. We all have all of nature within us. When I start to feel imbalanced or off in any way, it is the first place I look to regulate myself and my nervous system. What are my elements doing? What is the nature inside me doing. Where is it out of harmony? Where is there too much fire? Where is there not enough earth? How can I embrace flow? Has the air taken over? These types of questions and the natural balance that can be achieved using these elements are some of the reasons that I love things like Ayurveda (the sister science of yoga), Astrology, and more recently, Unani Biotypes (I’m so excited to learn this one). In fact, at its core most of the personal mapping systems can be traced down to the elements if you look deep enough. To me, knowing how these elements interact with you and your personal system is immensely supportive. So when I go walk in the woods and commune with the land and the trees, or stand in the middle of the sidewalk letting the sun wash over me for a few minutes, or stare at the ocean waves, or climb mountains, I’m not just enjoying nature, I am balancing myself at my most primal level. Also did I mention I love trees :) I am so grateful to still live in a world where the natural world is accessible to me. This is a gift that I think those of us in the Western world mostly take for granted and only pay attention to when there is a catastrophic event. I think our reconnection with nature, is one of the core elements that will help us as we evolve into our next evolution as a species on this planet. It is, in a sense, going back to how we started, reconnecting, and then doing it differently as we go forward.