5) Unity with Nature

Unity with Nature

Copyright © 1994 Marina P. Pushnaya (now Bonser)

We all love nature, and we all usually feel happier, stronger, and healthier after hiking, camping, or just enjoying the beauty of different natural environments: forests, lakes, mountains, oceans, deserts, and all the rest. People usually don’t think why it happens, how it works, and how to improve our skills of communication with nature. By 1994 I developed a course to help people connect their own inside worlds with nature, and taught it for many years in Russia. After this course people are able to interact better with the healing energies in nature, will be able to relax more deeply and quickly, and able to gain more energy. You will notice a big difference in your quality of communication with nature and in your life in general. You will enjoy being in nature even much more than now, and you will increase your level of health, happiness, and creativity. It is a journey into your inner world, exploring your inner landscape via interaction with nature. It requires attention and effort but usually everyone enjoys my classes because it is natural and easy. No one has ever got bored yet.

In short, it is a system of tuning the whole person at a body, mind, and spirit level to resonate with the rhythms and laws of the Universe via communication with nature. If, for instance, you are sitting near a lake, and the lake is calm, you take on it calmness and peace, and naturally your thoughts and emotions become more peaceful and clear. Energy is moving between the lake and you exactly like water is moving in a pipe between two reservoirs. The different levels of water in those reservoirs will become equal. This illustrates the process of moving energy between a person and nature. You can communicate with a stream or a tree, for example. They are inseparably connected with the surrounding environment, like a meadow, or a lake. Those environments are connected with open space - a sky, the mountains and the fields. Open space is also connected with the entire Universe. Finally, you can be inseparable with the entire Universe through tuning into its calmness, tranquility, power or healing energies. This is an inexhaustible source. After reaching the necessary level of advanced training, a person can participate in the great mystery of touching something limitless, true and perfect, which can bring the best moments in life. One can really feel oneself as a part of the source of all life. People who believe in God usually feel like they are in contact with God in whatever way their own religion defines this.

Nature Connection Workshop is structured as a special sequence of guided meditation exercises on images of nature. There is nothing really unusual in this process. We naturally use imagery every day. When we read a book or hear someone tell a story, while we sit quietly our consciousness puts us into another world, the world of images, and we see in our minds the scenes described only in words. An interesting book can keep us sitting quietly for a long time. The same is true for a movie – we feel like we are living in a movie, but really we are sitting next to a TV set for a long time. It is a kind of guided meditation. Using imagination it is possible to tune up your thinking and feeling to certain energies which come from the Universe. It is like tuning a radio set to certain stations. Guided imagery can help us get our feelings, thoughts, and our energy in tune with rhythms and energy of different environments in nature. We can use imagery every day to clean our emotions and minds, just like we brush our teeth or take a shower to clean our physical bodies. We clean our energy pipes so we get a better connection between us and nature. You will also discover that nature can become attuned to human energies too. Being in natural environment, you will be able to feel the energy of people who frequent certain places, and find your own favorite places that are easy for you to work with.

Workshops can include indoor and outdoor classes. Indoors we learn to work with images of nature in our minds. Then when we go to the countryside we work directly with the flows of energy which come from the sun, earth, trees, and stones. We learn to control our thoughts and feelings, and tune our energies to what we want to perceive. We do exercises for concentration and relaxation, and for expanding our field of perception. This is similar to learning how to drive a car on different roads. We will learn how to drive ourselves through the process of communication with nature.

There are conditions which provide better and deeper tuning-in to the energies which you can pick up from nature. The first condition is that the environment in your immediate vicinity is clean and healthy. Everybody understands that. Nobody wants to swim in a dirty river or breathe poisoned air. Everyone will choose a clean and beautiful place to sit or lie down to rest. But not many people understand the second condition – their bodies, minds, and spirits need to be also clean. First, at the physical body level we need a healthy lifestyle – no alcohol, nicotine, unhealthy food. We need to get regular exercises to move body energy better. Do more activities which will help you to get in a good shape. At the spirit and mind levels, we do not pollute ourselves with dwelling on negative emotions and thoughts. The better the condition of our personal ecology is, the easier we tune into the energies of nature and the universe. So now we have two conditions: good personal ecology and the good ecology of the natural environment around you. So, for instance anybody smokes, you better quit soon if you want to keep up with the group.

During a workshop we will be working in a group and also alone. When we work in a group it is important to follow some rules, just like traffic moves well if people follow rules. The main principle is a positive friendly atmosphere where everyone feels comfortable with others and not afraid to be offended. A group must function like one whole unit where co-tuned people help each other energetically. It is a condition of the most efficient way to work together, and people can actually pass on to each other the insights and achievements which they have gained as a result of their personal work. It is like one person writing a book and others reading it.

Sometimes we need to be alone in order to tune into the language of nature better, free ourselves from our usual human world perception, and be able to hear trees, stones, mountains, and other nature objects. Usually the more skills you get the more you feel the need for communication with nature alone. My Nature Connection Classes and Workshops provide a glimpse to my three-level program of advanced communication with nature. Usually people feel the difference in their communication with Nature after three of four indoor classes. You can stop at this point or continue onto the first level to work with the channels of energy in the body. We work to clean these channels and then fill them with good quality energy. At the end of level one you find that when you go to the country your whole organism automatically, without any effort on your part, tunes into a deep contact with nature. You can also stop at this level or continue on. There are two more levels to advance your skills which include work with energy centers of the body and different aspects of our perception of the world.

I used to think, that it is easier for the beginners to work with images of nature indoors first, without distraction of real nature energies. Later I have discovered a way of teaching outdoor classes for the beginners. A disadvantage of real nature energies distraction I turned into advantage of working with combination of both, real nature energies, and their images in student's minds. Eventually, in three or four classes, we reach the same result as in indoor classes, but in a different way.

There is a difference between participation in outdoor workshop and practice in nature. During a workshop students learn how to get in tune, and how to control flows of energies. When they are able to work with nature energies without guidance, they are ready to accomplish different practical tasks. After four classes I usually take my students for practice their skills in nature. Beside that I would recommend anyone go hiking or do other activities in nature: in our group, alone, or with other groups. It will help you to get physical exercise, and also let your body naturally manage your communication with nature without the participation of your mind. Let me make this point more clear. You gain skills with the help of your mind, and you use your mind to practice those skills in nature. You also need a time to communicate with nature without special concentration. During these time periods let your mind have a rest, and let your body naturally drive this communication spontaneously.

Welcome to Nature Connection Workshops!