Nature Tip 001: We are made of 70%-90% water. We ARE Nature.
Nothing in this post is a recommendation.
Plants. They were here before us and they will be here after us. If we would just listen to them, we might hear them laughing at us… but then we would hear them telling us what we need to do about…everything. First of all with changing how we see ourselves. It would tell us to reconnect to nature. This disconnection from “nature” is the source of most of our problems and it is obvious why.
We are made of 70% water. We as 90% water. Humans are nature. The sooner we accept we are the solution, not just the problem, the better. The sooner we stop living by a agricultural calendar the better. We have phases, like the moon. The moon controls the tides. Which means, yep you guessed it, the moon also pulls at us. When will we start to change our ways and our consciousness around this fact that we and nature are one. Plants are our counter-parts. We breath it out, they breath it in. They let it out, we suck it in. We cannot chop down all the rainforests and damage our oceans without repercussions, because essentially, we are killing ourselves in these acts.
We are so quick to pop pharmaceuticals into our bodies when there’s a plant to heal just about any pain we humans have, often in half the time and with ZERO side effects. In fact, you realize that pharmaceuticals are just mass produced synthetic plant, bacterias and fungi compounds right? Read this. Why not go straight to the sources for our healing - so we can not have the side affects?
Can’t sleep? 80% of people can fall asleep within 10 minutes of drinking chamomile. UTI? Just boil parsley from the grocer. Drink the water. You’ll be better before the doctor can write you a prescription. Why don’t we know this stuff?! It’s our birthright to partner with plants and live in peace. If you have a pain or a problem, why not try to treat yourself with something that has grown in the sun and had a life. The plants are great healers, and great teachers.
When I did extreme plant medicine I came out of it in Awe. Mostly in Awe of Nature. Also in Awe that I had lived so long outside of daily nature interactions. Maybe that’s why I felt dead for so long. The first thing I said after my plant medicine journey was “Why isn’t nature a religion?”😳😹 But Nature WAS/IS a religion. It was stripped of natives. So much wisdom is now being lost alongside their spoken language. Yet the people who lived in Americas long before Europeans came, understood nature, because they listened. I found in my Awe, how quickly Nature could heal my suffering, in many ways. I wondered why Nature wasn’t a religion. But it was. It’s just been forgotten that we are the answer to our own problems. Nature was the original religion, before dogma served to enslave people for the benefit of a few masters and to harness people in a grip of “be good" or else instead of “be whole”. We must learn to fuse the things we have learned in our scientific revolution with the ancient truths that we have long forgotten. I side with this blatant Truth: Nature is the answer: Watch. Partner. Heal. Grow.
The wisdom & uses of plants are infinite, like us, like our universe. We chop down 1 football field of rainforest every minute… for cows. 🤯 We can each do little things every day to support Earth and Nature. Our nature. We can do things as individuals to help our environment.
Ten Simple Things You Can Do to Help Protect the Earth
Reduce, reuse, and recycle. Cut down on what you throw away. Follow the three "R's" to conserve natural resources and landfill space.
Volunteer. Volunteer for cleanups in your community. You can get involved in protecting your watershed, too.
Educate. When you further your own education, you can help others understand the importance and value of our natural resources.
Conserve water. The less water you use, the less runoff and wastewater that eventually end up in the ocean.
Choose sustainable. Learn how to make smart seafood choices at www.fishwatch.gov.
Shop wisely. Buy less plastic and bring a reusable shopping bag.
Use long-lasting light bulbs. Energy efficient light bulbs reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Also flip the light switch off when you leave the room!
Plant a tree. Trees provide food and oxygen. They help save energy, clean the air, and help combat climate change.
Don't send chemicals into our waterways. Choose non-toxic chemicals in the home and office.
Bike more. Drive less.
Everyday we are losing keys to our survival as a species daily. We need to change and we need to make this important in our own lives and in our careers. Permaculture, ecosystem regeneration & envionmental preservation and education should be mass “industry” by now. What’s the ish?
Clean plants & pure living waters are our birthright. I stand for both. Immediately.
Plant plants. Eat plants. Plant Medicine. Let’s stop pouring chemicals onto the plants we eat. Use plants. Let’s plant 5 for every 1 we chop down. Let’s create systems that mimic the life cycle of plants. Let’s be allies of the plants.🖖🏼🌱 today. Let’s start now, together, healing and caring about nature…and by that I mean ourselves. Because as I will continue to say over and over. WE ARE NATURE. LISTEN.
