{"id":12796,"date":"2022-10-13T21:25:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T20:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neurosystemics.org\/?p=12796"},"modified":"2022-10-13T21:57:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T20:57:46","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neurosystemics.org\/tr\/ecology-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"","raw":""},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false,"raw":""},"author":10,"featured_media":12799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_en_post_content":"

\u201cThe climate crisis is a crisis of view<\/i>\u201d\r\n<\/i><\/h4>\r\n-<\/b> Rob Burbea (1)\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nOur moment-to-moment experience is influenced by many factors, including the environment we are in. By the environment, I mean the immediate surroundings as well as the larger ecological and societal context we inhabit. I remember a time on silent retreat when it was cold because of winter, and I practised meditation for long periods indoors. It was enjoyable to feel the warmth of the fire, listen to the crackling wood and see its embers. It felt so alive, so vibrant, such a presence despite the loneliness in my hermitage. I thank the gods and goddesses of nature for being such a support during difficult times.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nWe evolved intimately with nature, and whether we feel our immediate environment matters to our sense of belonging and embodiment in each moment. Nowadays we urban people spend so much time on our tech equipment (phones, computers, cars), that feeling intimate with nature is not a given. There has recently even emerged a new mental health diagnosis of Nature Deficit Disorder (2). Our modern industrial societies, influenced by secular humanistic and Cartesian body-as-object-of-mind, have conditioned a challenging dynamic to our relationship with the environment and nature.\r\n\r\nSacredness can be felt in many varieties and infinite ways. What do we hold sacred in life? Is nature included in this sacredness? It is worth contemplating our relationship with nature and explore ways in which we can enrich our meaningfulness and sense of belonging on this planet. Let\u2019s take a moment and feel Earth\u2019s embrace \u2013 the pull of gravity on our bodies and hearts \u2013 and allow that to ground us and enable a letting go right now.\r\n\r\nHow is it to rest on Earth\u2019s force and holding?\r\n\r\nLet\u2019s feel into the breath\u2026\r\n\r\nHow things look outside as we allow this?\r\n\r\nOur minds are often pulled in many directions, and yet there is also this opportunity to enjoy Earth\u2019s embrace. Perhaps there is a way in which the pull of gravity can be felt as Earth\u2019s love for our bodies and hearts.\r\n\r\nWe are right now at a key moment in our human and history of evolutionary life altogether. The climate catastrophe is starting to be widely felt in its impacts on our societies, at the edge of civilizational collapse (3) (notwithstanding the extinction period we have just entered). Is life around us and as the species itself a part of our sacredness? Let us take another moment and feel into the goodness and liveliness of having other beings around us. How is it to feel the birdsong in the morning, walk with dogs, caress cats, ride horses, or other animals resonating in our imaginal space?\r\n\r\nLet\u2019s bring to mind a moment when we felt an animal\u2019s love.\r\n\r\nSensing into that experience, sensations, breath.\r\n\r\nTaking time to enjoy and appreciate.\r\n\r\nAs we feel the nourishment from the life around us, and our dependencies on many many other species, perhaps our hearts open. And from this open heart, we can feel a deeper belonging with others, on this planet, together. I encourage all of us to include life and the Earth itself to be included as imaginal forces in our meditations, uplifting our hearts and grounding our bodies. From this love of nature and a felt-sense understanding of ecology, our activism, belonging, groundedness and contemplative practices can enable new ways of being into this world. This sacred world, with its myriad beings and mysterious ways, is worth protecting.\r\n\r\nCome and join our next Dharma Gathering<\/b><\/a> or Retreat<\/a> <\/b>to further embody Earth\u2019s embrace and love for life!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n(1)\u00a0 \u00ab An ecology of Love \u00bb <\/i>Dharma talk by Rob Burbea, 21.12.2015: https:\/\/dharmaseed.org\/talks\/32201\/<\/a>\r\n\r\n(2)\u00a0 \u201cMing\u201d Kuo, F. E. (2013). Nature-deficit disorder: evidence, dosage, and treatment. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events<\/i>, 5<\/i>(2), 172-186.\r\n\r\n(3)\u00a0 Degroot, D., Anchukaitis, K., Bauch, M., Burnham, J., Carnegy, F., Cui, J., ... & Zappia, N. (2021). Towards a rigorous understanding of societal responses to climate change. 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