Summary

The website content details an individual's personal journey of connecting with nature through conversations with trees, sharing the comfort, wisdom, and healing they experienced during a challenging period.

Abstract

The author of the content, an urban dweller, describes their unique experience of forming a bond with trees, which they personify and communicate with for emotional support and guidance. This connection becomes particularly significant during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the author's family faces uncertainty and stress. Through these interactions, the author receives comforting messages and healing energy from the trees, which they interpret as expressions of love and support. The trees, given names like "Betty" and "Adrian," offer solace, peace, and advice, helping the author navigate through their emotions and the collective anxiety of the time. The author also shares their realization that stillness and peace can be found through intuitive movement, such as dancing, rather than enforced stillness. The content concludes with the author reflecting on how this communion with nature has evolved from verbal conversations to a deeper, energetic connection, and they invite readers to share their own experiences with nature.

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The author believes in the calming and accepting presence of nature, contrasting it with human interactions that often require impressing others or changing oneself.
They express a sense of wonder and surprise at receiving an "energetic flying kiss" from a tree, indicating a genuine experience of connection and communication with the natural world.
The author feels that trees can provide emotional healing, referring to them as "loving relatives" and attributing healing blessings to their presence.
They suggest that individuals can become conduits for peace and healing by embodying these qualities themselves, as advised by a tree named "Adrian."
The author challenges the notion that stillness equates to stagnation, instead describing it as a state of vast, flowing quietness, which they achieve through intuitive dancing.
The trees are portrayed as sentient beings capable of grief and expressing unconditional love, even in the face of human tragedy and death.
The author views their heightened emotional sensitivity as a gift that, when embraced, can lead to personal growth and resilience.
The author's relationship with nature has matured from a need for verbal interaction to a silent, supportive connection, akin to that of a close-knit family.

I Talk to Trees

A photo and video journal

I believe that connecting with Nature, such as horses, trees, birds, or fluffy clouds in the skies, has a very gentle calming effect on us because unlike interacting with other humans, we don’t need to impress Nature or change who we are to feel accepted.

We simply feel safe and free to be ourselves while in nature.

My first experience receiving a reply from a tree

Even though I am such an urban dweller and I don’t even know the names of the most common species of flowers, butterflies, birds, and trees, I love my energetic connection with nature.

I am so blessed to have a park near my home and my very first magical experience with a tree was this:

I wanted to ‘talk’ to a tree and hopefully ‘hear’ it talk back to me like in a conversation. Unfortunately, I didn’t ‘hear’ anything even after hugging it while feeling very self-conscious about it.

As I walked away from that tree with some disappointment, I felt the energetic equivalent of a playful flying kiss given by it! I definitely wasn’t imagining it. I was so surprised!

Ever since that magical incident, I have started to communicate with more trees and receive messages from them.

I want to share with you some of these messages on my Facebook page through my conversations with trees in February 2020.

This was a very intense month for my family as my father-in-law was in Guangzhou, China when news of the pandemic first broke out. We felt so relieved that he was still allowed to take a flight back to live with us in Singapore before the situation got worse.

To play it safe, we did a self-imposed quarantine where I brought my three sons to live temporarily with my parents for a week. My husband continued to stay at our home with his father so it felt terrible to not be with him!

Perhaps that was why I connected to the trees so often during that month.

I hope you can connect to the love and magic of these short messages.

Oh! You poor thing!!!

2-Feb-2020

Something unexpected happened as I connected with the trees today while walking with my napping son in the stroller.

This tree, who sounds like a ‘Betty’, looks like an elderly loving grand aunt as she wrapped her energetic arms around me and exclaimed “oh you poor thing!!!!” It felt hysterical yet so loving at the same time.

I felt like crying on the spot as I still tried to push the stroller to keep my son asleep.

Even though this time I couldn’t take my time to gently touch her tree trunk, I still held onto her loving embrace gratefully as I walked away from her.

I said, “thank you, Betty. Yes, I am having a bad time holding it all together as a mom for my kids.”

I spent the rest of the walk asking for healing blessings from the trees for my son and me.

So grateful to have these loving relatives dote on me!

Be a beacon of healing

8-Feb-2020

I was waiting to finish their swim class when I happened to see ‘Adrian’ here looking at me.

I decided to confide in him, sharing that I’m sensing the growing panic due to the increasing severity of the COVID-19 virus.

What happened next was a feeling of peace. I couldn’t remember how intense that panic felt in me just a few seconds ago. I feel so touched by his healing that I started tearing a bit.

He told me to be a beacon of healing, so I can spread on the peace. It’s my responsibility now.

If you have been starting to feel more panicky, I hope that reading this little post, along with my poorly taken photograph of this gorgeous tree, will restore more peace in you.

Stillness is not the same as stagnation

Source: photographed and designed by Author

10-Feb-2020

I used to force myself to sit still to return to a space of stillness. This method didn’t work very well for me. My mind would still feel busy and scattered.

This morning, as I danced on the vast green field in front of this magnificent tree (she wants me to call her Miriam), I realized that in my intuitive movement meditation, I have arrived at the state of stillness.

Stillness is not the same as stagnation. It is still ever-flowing, but instead of flowing like a trickle or a small stream, it is this vast quietness that it is still flowing!

I’m so glad to be dancing more now, and to finally dance with the right focus that brings so much flow and stillness in me.

Intuitive dancing with Banyan trees

14-Feb-2020

This group of Banyan Trees made me feel the peace that is deeply grounding.

I asked if it’s ok to dance in front of them, and their answer felt something like “we don’t really need you to dance in front of us but if it makes you happy, we are happy to offer this space for you!”

It was fun dancing to 🐦 and 🐕 music!

We grieve because it is an expression of our love

19-Feb-2020

There has been a sudden traumatic death in my neighborhood, and we are all quite shaken by it. I can feel the sadness from these trees and asked them why are they grieving too.

They said: “We grieve because it is an expression of our Love. There is nothing that will ever stop us from loving you, not even death.”

I think it is very comforting to know that these trees, which most of us living our busy city lives seldom notice, actually empathize with us so much.

The same can be said for some of us who are so sensitive that we feel heavy emotions like grief so intensely, even when it is connected to people who aren’t closely connected to us. Mentally we can feel heavily inconvenienced by these intense emotions and might want to ignore them or push them away.

What if your sensitivity is a gift even when it feels inconvenient for you?

What if when you allow yourself the time and space to really feel these deep emotions, you come out on the other side being enriched by this experience, and are able to return to your daily life rhythms even sooner?

Hope this is interesting food for thought for you.

Closing notes

In those times of dense uncertainty, talking to trees was my source of magical lightness that kept me afloat with hope and aliveness.

Now, I no longer feel a need to talk to them as much. Instead, I would connect energetically to them to feel their nurturing support. They’re like my favorite aunts, uncles, and grandparents who are always here for me.

What is your special connection to Nature? I’d love to know!