True healing consists of connecting with our own energy, our own soul-nature, and having our own relationship with the Sacred, which includes the Earth. This field guide offers practical, easy to use tools that will help re-open your body and heart to the ecstatic raw power of the grounded spiritual energies of the earth. These exercises will help you to rediscover the mystical, magical aspects of your own life by increasing your sensory capacity. These proven techniques allow the powerful energies of Nature's Presence to enliven your senses and bring you into a direct and meaningful relationship with the earth. In this way you will learn how to more fully embody your own spirits beauty and wisdom.

This field guide brings the mystical down to earth by using spiritual practices that are grounded. Spiritual principles are taken and expressed into everyday behaviors that can be applied to our everyday lives. These are not practices that are applied in a vacuum away from daily living. Once you develop a sense of these basic skills you can start to apply them to your daily life.

With practice your world will expand, your nature self will reawaken and you will begin to discover for yourself that the earth is alive and conscious. You will regain your ability to understand and communicate with the natural world. Your world will become richer, deeper and more alive. You will become sensitive to how the spiritual presence of life is always communicating with us in the seemingly ordinary events of our daily lives.

When you feel a sudden breeze caress your face on a still summers day, you will know with certainty that something vast and conscious is acknowledging you, in that moment when you were asking for help. Moments like these send us little shock waves of awe and excitement as we realize we are indeed not alone. We are given proof that we are held and supported by the web of life in which we find ourselves. When we reconnect with this intelligent and vast awareness, we will feel in our heart and spirit that we have found our true home. We will at last be living primarily as spiritual beings embodied in a physical form.

The book is divided into three sections with a HOWS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE? quiz at the end of the book which gives you an idea of how much you have tapped into natures healing powers. Each chapter contains step-by-step exercises that allow you to try out the concepts and experience them for yourself.

> The first section FERTILIZING THE GROUND OF OUR BEING lays the foundation for enabling you to easily and effortlessly experience the healing and energetic presence of nature. It looks at practical and easy to use ways that will increase your personal power in the world.
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> SOWING THE SEEDS OF CONNECTION provides the framework and skills for opening your senses so you can perceive the deeper reality of natures heart-expanding beauty and aliveness.
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> The third section, HARVESTING THE FRUITS takes you into the world of Shamanism where your increased receptivity allows you to become aware of the gifts that nature is continually offering us to assist us in bringing our lives into harmony with spirit and with our purpose here on earth. This section includes how to communicate with the non-human world as well as going deeper into the very essence of life itself, the Primordial Silence. The last chapter takes a look at ways in which you can integrate what you have learnt into your daily life.
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