Self Awareness

A seed sprouts into a magnificent tree, a bud blooms into a beautiful flower, the clouds shower down the cooling rain, the waves crash against a warm beach- effortlessly. All that is, is made up of energy. Life itself as we know it started with the ‘Big Bang’ expansion of energy which gave rise to our Universe. In nature everything emerges from and converges into one another making our planet a living, breathing whole. This is reflected through every aspect of Nature.  

The energy from the rays of the sun initiates and sustains life on the planet in the form of the green grass. Every species on the planet has its own place and its own food within the food chain.  Through these plants the organic minerals are made organic and available to all other life forms (animal and human).

We must re-connect ourselves to this Oneness of Nature, by being aware that we are from Nature. Our physical form made up of bones, muscles, joints and bloods is made up of the same stuff as the rest of the planet. We correspond in each aspect of our being with the life on Earth. Our bones are rocks, calcium and phosphorous chalk cliffs of our internal scaffolding. Our body fluids are 70 percent of our weight, just as the oceans cover 70 percent of the planet’s surface, our breath is matched with amazing accuracy to the specific composition of the planet’s atmosphere.

As part of the Universe we are part of these energy cycles. Our life is mediated by internal and external rhythms, body clocks and cosmic clocks that keep us in tune with the rhythms of the Universe. Our births are more common in the early dawn and during months of greater daylight. Our body clock through the relationship between the pineal gland and the sunlight is able to adjust itself with accuracy to the 24 hour cycle of day and night.

Our bodies, minds and spirits are constantly restored through rhythmic ingestion and absorption of nutrients from our environment. This perpetual interchange between us and our world is highly complex and sophisticated. From the atomic to the cellular level from the conscious to the cognitive level we are interacting with the energy fields of our planet. This exchange gives us meaning in terms of who we are as individuals and as a species.

In the last few hundred years, only a speck in our existence of 3.2 billion years we have moved away from this synchronicity of the Universe. Instead of being a part of this orchestra we have tried to overpower it to suit our own need.  Drawing on the resources available to all we have imbalanced the planet. We have advanced in technology and science while cutting ourselves from our root which is Nature.  By separating ourselves from nature we have been created disharmony around us. By disrupting the motion of energy within our planet we have created discomfort (disease) for ourselves and Mother Earth. This alteration within the body is seen as arthritis, osteoporosis, hormonal imbalance, infertility cancer, etc and in Mother Earth is seen as global warming, loss of corals, deforestation, soil erosion, pollution, storms, and extinction of innumerable species of flora and fauna.

In order to bring back the beauty that resides within us and Nature we must be aware of the damages being done i.e. we need to be in self- awareness. Self awareness needs to be achieved at the physical level (through food and oxygen), at the mental level (through being in a state of love, peace and harmony) and at the spiritual level (through prayer).

As part of Nature we must eat what has been designed for us. Being a part of the Web of Life by predominantly having fruits, raw vegetables, nuts and sprouts we are allowing the energy within the food chain to move correctly creating harmony. Processed, chemical laced, substituted, fortified, extracted, modified foods not only burden the body they also burden the resources of our planet depleting our health as well as Mother Earth’s. Through eating right foods and living by the rhythm of the body and the planet we create harmony.

The invisible energy that exists through Nature is made visible in us through breath. It is only through this breath that we can connect with this creative force to enhance our creativity and consciousness. Being one with the breath lifts our state of Vital Energy and we are able to re-connect with the consciousness of Nature, reconnecting us to the synchronicity we are meant to live in.

The disharmony that we have created is not only being reflected in our health physically and the health of the planet our thought pattern too has become disharmonious. Instead of coming from Love, our actions arise out of fear. When we connect with Nature we start living from certainty instead of scarcity. We must humbly accept that Nature in its perfection has created all that we need. We have been creating an imbalance not only within the human race but also among all species that live on Earth. To bring back balance we must reflect the Nature of Nature which is Love, Peace and Harmony.

Spiritually we reach a state of self-awareness by connecting to the higher order of energies which may be called the Divine or Life Force or Prana. Prayer connects us to this higher self. Prayer is a conversation with the Universe which comes from gratitude and humility.
Prayer lifts us from a situation we feel trapped in to a state of surrender to the Divine, as we allow the Divine to take care of us. This is true celebration. Prayer establishes the oneness because it reaches the ‘One source’ that is the energy that sustains all. Through prayer we raise ourselves to a consciousness of Harmony creating a World of Wellness for ourselves and the planet.