Nature healing

We live a strange life; almost half robotic. We stare at screens, tap away, press buttons and rarely go outside; quite dystopian. We suffer different mental illnesses just due to the fact that we have divorced ourselves from nature. And why? Because the world is driven by making money. Who needs motorways and aeroplanes and factories and nuclear power plants? Society was doing just fine without all of these for thousands of years. Simple living is what is needed - growing food locally in small communities where everyone knows each other and small cottage industries. The real progress is in our consciousness, not in what new ‘breakthroughs’ we can make.

Achieving the goal

Nature is not something that can be avoided. We are an intrinsic part of nature, both materially and spiritually. the problem is that the lives that we live are directly in conflict with nature. Maybe we should define what we mean by nature - the earth, the sky, the weather etc. If we live in harmony we are happier, healthier and more effective. Another problem is that we are caught in systems that trap us, and there is not much we can do to escape. So we shouldn’t be puritanical; we have to work with the constrains we find ourselves in.

What does it mwan to achieve the goal? Is the journey the destination? Is achieving things important to us? Or is our consciousness more importsnt? or a mixture of both? after all our consciousness determines our actions.

Small Steps Create Big Shifts

We may think that the world is doomed. Huge poolution, climate change, famine and all the rest. But we shouldn’t underestimate the power of indiviual action. We are all leaders in our own way. We have influence over the people in our community, however large that is.

Turn Intention Into Action

Sometimes things live in our minds. But transforming them into action can create real change. I heard a wonderful lecture where Badrinarayana Swami was talking about tipping points in society, and how societies change. It is possible. civilisations have come and gone - they don’t stay forever.

Make Room for Growth

As we take steps, we make progress, whether that is externally or at least internally. Then we may have to develop infrastructures. I experience that with my gardening business, Rama Gardening.