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What If We Could Adopt Nature’s Way of Compassion? Would Life Be Easier?

Thinking deep about living systems and solutions

A conversation with Marcus, about our entries for the Medium Writers Competition brought me to some deep thoughts I want to share here with you. It all started with his story on suicide. Marcus, aka Greg, wrote the truest words ever.

“We are only as sick as our secrets” - Marcus

My thoughts go to the people I knew, and who took their own lives. My heart breaks again just thinking about those moments. My gran. My cousin. And many others who touched my life for a moment in time.

And yes, there were always secrets. Feelings of guilt and shame. And seeing no other way out. Maybe this is why I don’t like the climate narrative at this moment. Guilt and shame are never good advisors and will never result in wise people.

What will? I ask myself all the time. What will make us wise humans?

Spiritual Journey

Marcus and I are both on a spiritual journey. So, I click on his next story and read about spirituality and religion.

And I recall many so-called spiritual teachers I met who were shouting how we should be humble. At the same time not able to resist the unlimited wants of their own scarcity mindsets. Living a life of luxury. Telling people: “We need an abundant mindset”.

And I cringe.

Nature’s Way is not like that. Nature’s Way is abundant, yes. And it’s stupid that we created our human systems with scarcity. But Nature doesn’t see abundance as money. Nature is always optimizing more values than just one instead of maximizing. Nature’s Way is 5D and that means you can include time and space into your being on this planet.

People Can Be Trusted

So, how do I see it?

First of all, I really think most people can be trusted. It has been proven by historian Rutger Bregman in his book Humankind. And I really feel this. We all just got stuck in destructive patterns.

If you look up close, you trust people. You know them. If you look from a little distance, they become a group. And you notice only differences. They are not ‘my kind of people’. They are too this. They are too that. They are judgmental. And all the time you are judging them big time.

That’s life. That’s human. And I’m no Saint. So, I recognize the same thoughts in my own head all the time.

I really think most people can be trusted

Change of Culture

I wrote as an answer to Marcus:

“Oh, if only we would accept an ‘and-and-culture’ instead of the ‘or-or-culture’ of ‘I’m right and you are wrong’.

Religion is spirituality with an extra layer of human made constructs around it. And to be honest, many so-called spiritual teachers are doing the same. Creating guru-culture and cancel-culture. Feeling superior by shouting how humble we must be.

My soul longs for deep change… every day… I visualize the future… and put my hands in the soil for some grounded action… supporting young, conscious leaders who hopefully will not fall into the traps of life and our brain.”

Physical Compassion

The other day, I had a revelation. Eureka! And I want to explain that thought to my friends here.

What if we have always tried too hard to get into another person’s shoes? Be compassionate? What if we would train ourselves to do it in Nature’s Way? Would we become wiser people? Understand even animals and trees?

What is Nature’s Way when we talk about compassion?

I think that it all starts with our own bodies. Our body is an organism, and we received it to be on this Earth. We draw breath into our body and she expands and contracts all the time. That’s one of Nature’s processes. Breathing movement.

When we have strengthened our core (the axis of brain, heart, and gut) and lived mainly in the present moment (it IS the ONLY moment), we are aware people.

How do aware people do compassion?

We can never get into another person’s shoes! We cannot ever understand their perspective completely. I can often not even understand myself. Let alone another person…

So, what if the physical way to do compassion is to stay in our own minds, our own bodies, and extend our awareness to embrace others into our being? And what if in that spacy field of combined souls something extra comes in? Some wisdom of the Planet?

It is what happens when we do Deep Listening. And when we ‘hold space’ for gatherings of people when we heal feelings of victimhood.

This insight might be complementary to Rupert Sheldrake’s Morphic Resonance. In biology, it’s called symbiosis. An organism embracing another organism and creating 1+1=3. The whole is bigger than the sum of its parts. Symbiosis is complementary to Eckhart Tolle and his present moment teachings.

And looking back in my life, it is exactly what I learned from my indigenous trainer Jon Young. I just didn’t recognize it at that moment. This is how indigenous animal tracking works. This is how animal communication works. This is how people can feel trees and mountains. Listen to them even.

This is what Arne Naess felt when he became a mountain and coined the term Deep Ecology. And inspired so many people to walk the path of regeneration.

This is how animal communication works

Can We Train This?

Please, can all kinds of trainers and poets and inspirational writers think with me how to bring this way of physical compassion while staying in our own shoes to the people of all continents? Space is the place where everything new is created. And this is physical compassion in space.

Can we train connection to nature, please? By just being outside? By not being afraid of nature, but knowing we are inseparable from Nature.

We are one.

What’s the big advantage of physical compassion in space, you ask?

• We do not have to shout that others need to be ethical. Ethics is relative. Everybody thinks he or she is ethical. Everybody hates condescending people and will stop listening when leaders shout: we should do this and we should do that.
• Everybody wants to follow his or her own independent mind. That’s completely okay. But if we stay in our own shoes and embrace others with our love all the time, the world will change big time.
• Only infecting one other person would already make a speedy change. One loving embrace of souls and it’ll spread like a positive virus.
• You can even do it in COVID times. No need for physical contact.

What Do You Think?

Does it make sense? This revelation of mine about symbiosis as a method of compassion? Does it help us all to be unique in our own shoes, our own auras, and extend our awareness to others? Bringing compassion to the world of humans in connection to nature big time? I do hope so.

What do you think?

Tell us. Let’s talk…

You can find me somewhere on our beautiful planet, with my hands in the soil and my eyes focused on the stars. Abundanism.com and Linktree. Thank you, Mike, for adding your wise energy to my words.

© Désirée Driesenaar