What word describes the essence or quality you wish to experience in your life, one that allows you to feel more fulfilled? And How can you experience that quality now?
I have written so many times about my passion for all things wild and the importance of connecting with the wild within, the importance of rewilding. Most things that I write about, are done so with the intention of spreading more awareness and inspiring people to become more proactive, in connecting with their true potential. So when I posed this question on behalf of the tribe, I already knew what my answer would be.
From a young age, we have been conditioned to believe all that we have been taught (instructed),by the educational,religious and government bodies. Conditioned to ask no questions and to remain compliant. To blindly follow, even though there is so much evidence out there showing us, how corrupt these institutions/systems are. How they care so little for our well being.
What we are witnessing now, how the majority of people are following restrictions which are doing more harm than any 'virus'. Just goes to show how strong the indoctrination, because so many have become dependant on the system. A system that disempowers us. That draws us further away from who we are, from ever reaching our true potential.
My path is the path to rewild, to reconnect and empower myself. For many years now, I have continued to live outside of the system as much as I can. But there has always been things that have pulled me back in again, the need to travel back to Ireland to see family and being able to have a connection to the internet.
But there are so many different elements and layers to rewilding. One of the first, being the relationship that we have with ourselves and our ability or lack there of, connecting and following our intuition. We really need to listen to our bodies and trust their ability to guide and heal us. We are born with this ability ,but it is something that so many of us become disconnected from. As a result we end up turning to others to guide and heal us.
Rewilding is all about reconnecting with your inner knowing, it is a commitment to yourself, an life empowering journey. One that ignites a fire in you, a yearning to learn about the many ways in which you can become more self sufficient, more self reliant. Taking your power back!
This journey calls on you to become more intimate with yourself, to look at how you interact with those in your life and the world around you.
A big part of this journey is connecting with the natural world, aligning with the seasons and listening to our bodies needs as we transition into each new one. Just as there are natural cycles within nature, these are natural cycles that we experience too. When we disconnect from these, we lose the ability to connect with ourselves. As we are a part of nature and these cycles connect us all.
Just think about how calm you feel when you manage to get away from it all , when you finally get to immerse yourself in the natural world. How so many of your stressors and worries melt away, as you walk amongst the trees in the forest, or as you walk bare foot along the beach. How the sound of the water, carries you to a place of peace.
Our bodies are designed to connect and work with nature, designed to discharge energies that no longer serve us, as we walk barefoot upon the earth. To discharge and recharge ourselves. We need the wild, the wild within and the wild without.
I walk barefoot around my home and the land I live on. It really helps to keep me connected to the earth and connected to the essence of who I am. ReWilding is all about reconnecting. Because we are all wild in the inside. But down through the years, these long years of conditioning, they have led to some many of us being tamed. To the point, where we are total unaware of our true potential.
Shadows descend upon my path
The falling rain
easing the pain that carried me forth,
Each step so heavy,
as I carve my resilience upon this soil.
Buried deep
My anger released,
only to be reborn.
Easing my way upon these distant shores
all that is held within
screaming to be ignored,
Silent gestures
finally find their voice.
Rising up!
For now, the words spread out
into the corners of our mind.
we move as one
spiralling towards the everlasting sun
The warmth is felt
as each new memory begins to form
letting who we have become,
sail out into the world!
Creating waves that carry forth
the essence of who we are.
Rewilding!
connecting with the ancient
starting anew
extending branches
that arch and weave there way through.
The beginning,
fading away
so that we don't lose our way.
We need only to remember
we need only to re-connect!
I seek to introduce the idea of rewilding, An invitation to explore the wild that resides within us all, and how we can empower ourselves once we reconnect with it. There is a reason why we have been told the wild is something to be suppressed, that instead we should lead a more civilized life. Our power lies in our wildness. Just look to the wild in nature, to the balance that resides there. Everything as it should be, all beings living as they should. Cage them and you see what happens, they lose their power, their life force! We too have been caged for far too long. Now is the time to awaken and explore what lies within.
