Nature is our most appetizing gift from our God above. We feel a whole different demeanor when walking through a trail or going barefoot on fresh cut grass, or seeing little images of flowers popping up here and there. It's as if we connected to something energetic, and way more powerful than we are. A bond with the trees, and bushes, and flowers, plants, water, and rocks. An appreciation for the rabbits going about the business of their day, and the deer eating the tops of our rose bushes. Chipmunks scurrying around, seemingly oblivious to all around them, and staying in a straight line from food to home. Birds flying, landing, taking baths, eating seed, and enjoying their visit at our house. Next stop will be the neighbor's. They have a routine, and such is nature.
Our rawest spot in the deepest part of our souls, is connected with this nature. When we are upset over something, that is the spot that feels at one with nature. Nature represents safety and comfort and energy and God. Even the sunlight and the nightfall can bring comfort in times of deep dissatisfaction. Sit out and look up at the stars on a dark night, and feel the oneness with the Universe. See the twinkling stars as they seem to light up our planet. Hear the coyotes howling in some distant field. Feel the earth beneath you, feel your feet in the grass. Watch the twinkling fireflies, providing a light show that brightens our outlook, and reinforces our strength. And hope the bear is asleep somewhere much further away.
When we are feeling raw, we are feeling vulnerable, antsy, unsteady, and depressed. The energy of nature can't help but make us feel a part of it, if we choose to go after it. It's like taking an orange, and squeezing it, the positivity and energy spills right out of it, and onto us. We absorb it, we feel better, and we become stronger. We have allowed ourselves to join with the Universe, instead of trying to repel it with our feelings of sadness and vulnerability. We may want to pull ourselves down, but there is always going to be a spider web, or a slightly imperfect rose, or a squirrel climbing a tree with ease, that can catch our eye and start the pull back to our primal feelings of nature and health and feeling robust and happy and hopeful. Just sitting on a bench or on the ground, even better, and feeling the sun on our face and body, for a few minutes, can help boost that strength we have built up in our souls.
That energy will help us take care of whatever problem we might have, and it doesn't even cost a dime. It's just getting back to the rawness of nature. Both outside the body, and within. We need to be able to focus on the matter at hand. We need to concentrate on what we need to do. Feeling filled with positive energy helps us fuel ourselves with the strength we need. Step by step, we can get through. I have a little toad that comes up on my porch every night around the same time. He hangs out for a while, I talk to him, hold him sometimes, and he's gone. One night he even took his wife. I marvel at the fact that this toad is right in the same spot, every night. It is nature, and it is embracing, and it is positive energy. When things aren't going well, and the mind is stressed with negativity, nature is a great way to get back some much needed energy.
When the soul and the body are not in balance, there is a rawness to the feelings of emotional pain, as if like an open wound. There is the feeling that something is missing. Harmony, and security and the sense of freedom. This rawness can attract us to our roots, to the nature that surrounds us, and allow it to feed us the positivity and strength we need. Yes, there is a rawness in pain that draws us to nature.
  
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