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A storm's invigorating and revitalizing forces often shift how I feel. Sometimes nature's storms can be much like the storms or challenges we face in life. Many times I've felt that the unwanted challenges, traumas, and setbacks I've faced in my life are like storms. I used to struggled against these challenges, a bit like struggling against the wind. I thought that they "shouldn't" be happening. I now see these types of life challenges or storms as a great shift in energy, something that has come to me as a gift, and possibly come to redirect the course of my life. No related posts.

"The forest breathes with living spirits. Animals, plants, and rocks emanate eternal, brilliant intelligence. The life around me seemed so familiar; I felt I’d always known it and it had always known me. I’d merely forgotten my legacy of love, my connection to all things. In that moment of reacquaintance, I remembered what home felt like, or was it heaven? I decided they are one and the same." Related posts:

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I think love is one of the most powerful things we can do to bring change into the world. To love ourselves and others with compassion and forgiveness is powerfully healing. Forgiveness sets us free. When we are "in Love" all our actions become filled with grace. We tend to treat the world around us with reverence. Related posts:

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I feel so alive, as if the entire world is mine. I like how my bare feet tread softly. Oh, dear Earth, you are so ingrained into my flesh that I don’t know where I stop and you begin. Related posts:

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When one is able to spend an extended period of time immersed in the embrace of mother nature, we are able to reconnect with the truth within. It is as if an internal GPS is activated. Related posts:

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Create a Caption for this photo and have a chance to win a copy of my book, "Naked in Eden: My Adventure and Awakening in the Australian Rainforest". Related posts:

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One day I witnessed something that horrified me and at the same time made me marvel at the tenacity of life in the forest. What I saw seemed irrational, futile, and maybe even insane, until I stopped to think about it. Related posts:

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When I first let go, I thought I was going insane but in reality I already was insane. I was just seeing, for the first time what I’d avoided all my life. Related posts:

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I used to feel awkward and out of place when meeting many new people because it seemed like whenever people met each other for the first time they would exchange names, talk surface small talk, and inevitably ask what they did for a living. But rarely did people REALLY talk about themselves. Related posts:

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Today I share a recreation of the sounds I heard emanating from the trees I lived with in the rainforests of Australia (see video). "I felt so bathed in sound that I began to dream music. I connected to the vibrating, ecstatic energy all around me. In my open state, energy passed right through me. As it passed through I heard it, felt it, and literally resonated with it. I aligned my vibration with the forest world in which I lived." Related posts:

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