BEING beauty: a lesson from the trees🌲

The beauty of your unique landscape, your history, and all that your body shares...

Yesterday I went for a walk with my arborist friend Scott. Not only does he know trees intellectually, but he also reads and feels them energetically. He can look at a tree and explain why it grew the way it did, how it adapted to its environment and approximately what stage of life the tree was in when the shift happened. 

Now I’m a huge nature lover, and I never feel more connected to the true essence of beauty than when I’m immersed in the peace of it. 

After spending time gazing silently through the forest I was literally in tears when I realized how much trees are just like us…

I was struck by their majestic beauty, and how their body’s mirror their lives the same way ours do.

• Trees are formed by their experiences. They grow, adapt and change in relationship to their shifting environments, and the traumas they’ve endured. This impacts how they look, how they move, and how they present themselves to the world.

• They’re incredibly resilient and are always healing, yet they still carry the scars, the rough edges, the lumps and bumps showing you that they’ve lived.

• They’re long living beings whose bodies show their history. The beauty of trees is rooted in their history.

• Pictures can never ever do them justice. It only captures a fragment of their beauty and presence, and just barely. You can’t possibly capture their essence in a photo, just like you.

• They grow towards the sun and breathe in and out.

• They’re social beings and thrive by communicating with other surrounding trees. They speak energetically with their roots through the underground network. They have a teamwork quality and are intelligent, knowing not to grow into the sunny spaces of surrounding trees so that everyone can thrive together. They share resources and maintain harmony for all.

• Our nerves and vessels mirror the branches and roots of trees. Our bones are both fibrous and flexible like trunks. We’re protected by the various intelligent layers of skin just like tree bark.

Have you ever noticed how we marvel at old, interesting-looking asymmetrical trees and love them for their richness and uniqueness? And how we adore them for their imperfections and their individuality.

Are unsymmetrical trees any less beautiful? No, quite the opposite. And wouldn’t it feel like we were in a simulation if they were all “perfect” by human standards? 

Yet we don’t give ourselves or each other the same grace when our bodies reflect our history…

My question for you to contemplate, is can you begin to see your body with the same reverence for its uniqueness? 

Can you begin to honor your scars, lines, stretchmarks, soft spots and markings. Can you see your unique landscape with the same admiration and satisfaction as gazing upon something in nature. Because you are nature?

Through my tears I shared my epiphanies with Scott, who responded: “yes! Now you get it. I cry about trees all the time.”

Then he told me about this Ram Dass quote I never knew about:

“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree.

The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”

What part of your unique history are you looking to release judgment about?

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