An invitation to consider your own relationship to the land. What might I have to offer? What happens if I pause to listen more? What if I consider that in the same way I benefit from being outside, the beings around me could benefit from my presence? We are not as separate from the Earth as we might believe ourselves to be.
Most, if not all of us, know the experience of feeling anxious or being in some level of fight, flight or freeze, deadening or collapse. We know what it is like to feel scared, uncertain, worried, agitated, or irritable. Metta meditation can help us experience a feeling of safety and a settled nervous system. This practice is an invitation to connect to feelings of well-being, ease, peace, and happiness for yourself and the world.
This is who we are as humans. We have tremendous ability to care about the world around us, the creatures and beings sharing the earth with us, large and small, human and non-human. Sometimes it is easy to forget that, especially when we hear so much about our capacity to do harm and to be heartless.
