5 easy ways to connect with the earth and love nature

The earth balances us it connects us with our most bodily and emotional part, not so mental.

“Putting your feet on the ground” or dealing with “earthly” issues are expressions that reflect how contact with the earth brings the tangible closer, to a simpler and more primary reality. “Humility”, at the same time, comes from humus, the living soil.

In nature, before the immensity and antiquity of the landscape, we perceive that we are only one among billions of beings who have lived, live and will live on the planet. We stop being so self-absorbed, so focused on our problems…

Nature also gives us the measure of what is a lot and what is little. It is prodigal but not limitless. Not seeing where food and resources like water come from leads to take them for granted and waste them. How to reconnect with the land so as not to take those resources for granted? In this article we give you some ideas.

Why connect with nature

And if every time we turn on the tap we kept in mind that this water that comes out is also nature?

And if we saw that every wooden door of a house was once a living tree in some forest on the planet?

What would happen if when eating we remembered that each meal was a day of life and could it be again?

“There is enough in the world to cover everyone’s needs, but not enough to cover everyone’s greed,” said Gandhi.

The man to survive inevitably requires other living things to dievegetables or animals.

Faced with this overwhelming reality there are those who choose vegetarianism: eating vegetables is considered the least painful option since these, lacking a nervous system, at least they don’t suffer.

and although whether or not to eat meat is a personal choicecan be done by denying the evidence of the deaths involved or from a attitude of respect and appreciation towards those who die so that we can stay alive.

towns like the redskins revered the bison brother who killed in order to eat, while some Eskimos still pour fresh water into the seal’s mouth today to quench its thirst after hunting it. So make amends to nature for having stolen one of his creatures.

The difference seems minimal but it can radically change the way animals that are destined for food are treated or the way crops are exploited, and gives more arguments to reduce meat consumption and pollution for health reasons.

Know your planet to love it

Direct experience with the land, its deep knowledge, is the best antidote to oblivion who we are and where we come from, and is at the base of the conviction that when nature is damaged, it threatens oneself.

Farmers, shepherds, artisans, indigenous peoples, hikers or naturalists mark a path: they teach that Whoever approaches nature and is willing to know it learns to love it and to love oneself, and that from that love is born a respect that makes life more fulfilling.

On the blue planet that astronauts observe from space the boundaries between the inert and the living are blurred. Mountains, rivers, polar ice, mineral deposits… all form part of the substrate from which life emerges.

James Lovelock He wondered why the nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere don’t disperse into the surrounding vacuum like they do on Venus or Mars. In his Gaia theorynamed after the Greek goddess of the earth, compared the planet to a living organism that regulates itself and tends to balance to ensure its survival.

On Gaia it is not so much life that adapts to the environment to survive, as that life itself is what influences the environment to maintain the environmental conditions necessary to continue there.

Perhaps one day the human being will disappear, but as long as he exists, the destiny of the Earth will also be his.

There are many ways to make contact with the earth and thus reconnect with nature in order to respect our planet as it deserves.

1. Perform a meditation on the grass

Lie on your back with your palms upin a receptive attitude. Notice how the body weighs and falls to the ground. The blades of grass may distract you; accept his caresses.Go relaxing the bodyfrom top to bottom, and see how seems to want to merge with the earth. The fluids that run through it calm down and level out, like the calm water of a lake.look at the face, in the heat of the sun on the eyelids. It is the fire that fuels life on earth.Also consider the breath., without modifying it. The air enters cold and leaves hot. You share it with acquaintances and strangers, with birds and plants… with the entire universe. At some point you may stop feeling the body. You stop being but you are. attentive to your heart: with him beats nature.

2. Walk through nature

Walking leads to observing, listening, smelling… and also simply being. Connect with the ground, the air, the sky, the sound of water, the animals…

Drinking from the fountains, bathing in the rivers or collecting the fruits of the forest are ways of using nature that are gratifying and that, if done with respect, not only do they not harm it but also bring it closer and help to get to know it.

3. Plant a tree

Ashoka, the Buddhist emperor of India, encouraged his citizens to plant and care for five trees in their lifetime: one for medicine, one for fruit, one for firewood, one for wood, and one for flowers.

Whether there are five or one, planting trees is a way of pay homage to a fascinating species that provides us with food and oxygen, shelter and furniture, aesthetic pleasure and fun. It can be in a garden, an urban garden, pots or through organizations that promote reforestation.

4. Prepare bread

Making bread at home allows choose the ingredients and control the whole process of manipulation, in addition to recovering the pleasure for the simple.

You can choose a flour obtained from quality seeds and ground in a stone mill, for example, and knead slowly, enjoying the work and after the result.

5. Learn pottery

For centuries, man has used basic elements provided by nature –mud, water and fire– to create utensils, jewelry and decorative objects.

Ceramic connects directly with the earth. Immerse yourself in the shapes, colors and textures of the clay quiets the mind and promotes creativitybut also allows us to see how you can give life to the earth through the work with the hands.

Books to connect with nature

You are, therefore I am; Satish Kumar, Editions IPlanet Earth; Kevin W. KelleyFolio EditionsWe are a part of the earth; Great Chief Seattle, JJ de Olañeta Ed.