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Quick Ways to Connect with Nature at Home, by Jessica Marie Baumgartner

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

The natural world thrives. It is balanced, clean, and wild. Humanity has lived at one with its surroundings before, and I believe it can do so again, but modern society moves so fast that many people find it difficult to connect with the land.

When we're working to make ends meet, caring for family members, or looking out for friends and somehow trying to find our place in the world, life's natural rituals often fall behind. We forget the birds' song. The swish of the breeze in the trees doesn't even register. The buzz of modern technology takes over that place in our lives and we must work harder to listen to the voice of creation singing through rain, snow, and hail.

It's easy to feel left behind. Catching up sometimes seems impossible, but it's not as complicated as climbing Mount Everest. We do not have to venture out into the wild for weeks at a time to regain our sense of self and reconnect with nature (though, if you ever get the chance, grasp it with both hands!).

The days of religious figures and mystics abandoning their people for the secluded voices of the gods/universe are past. Our power and energies grow best when we integrate that part of ourselves into society and live out our "holy" quests for meaning, purpose, and love in simple daily actions.

Some pray in temples, others travel great distances to find what is no further than their doorstep. Our connections to our existence are not only found under these special circumstances.

Not everyone has the means to give up everything and wander freely?especially with the recent events of the world. Getting "back to basics" is the perfect way to strengthen our spiritual ties. When bringing ourselves down to the earth and remembering to focus on the physical elements that make everything, our internal fires ignite passion and guide us through fate.

That is the entire premise of my latest book, The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice. Nature gives us everything we need. It hosts the most powerful magic, but it is up to each individual to explore their relationship to that energy.

For anyone not knowing where to start, or those who are well-versed but just need more focus, support, and wish to expand on their practices, I developed this book from my daily and seasonal work. I was raised poor and pride myself on "making do with what I have." Many of my exercises require little to no materials. It seems to me that ingenuity is more often found in resourcefulness than a cluttered altar.

However one works, I wish everyone all the best, and have included three simple practices that will not only strengthen one's bonds to nature, but also to their inner-voice—that instinctual magic resting inside our subconscious.

Spring Window Meditation

1. Sit near an open window or sunbeam coming through the glass.
2. Feel the air's energy?how it revives your skin and strengthens inner power.
3. Breathe deeply. With each breath, rock back and forth.
4. Relax your mind and close your eyes. Explore the images that materialize.
5. See yourself in relation to these visualizations. Where are you going? How far have you come? Are you sad or happy? What are you seeking?
6. Follow these questions through the trails of thought.
7. Let the air guide you. Remain conscious of yourself in relation to the light and air. Feel the pulse of life rushing through your body and how it matches the pace of your meditation.
8. Now, open your eyes and look out the window. Really see beyond where you sit and extend your energies.
9. Bow to the answers that greet you. Continue your day with a stronger purpose.

Porch, Patio, or Doorstep Greeting

1. Go outside and stand before your doorway. Doorways host a special power.
2. Turn and face the door as if you are a guest about to knock. Focus on the air surrounding you. Block out everything else.
3. Rest your palms on the door and closer your eyes. Think of what home means?how it protects, secures, and enhances life.
4. Visualize life without a home. How the land would look without the structure. Feel the energies that flow between yourself and your dwelling.
5. Now turn to face the outside world. Whether a road, garden, other homes or structures stretch before you, focus on the plant life and creatures that have adapted their wild ways to live alongside your domesticated structure.
6. Let their companionship strengthen your energies. Close your eyes. Feel the warmth inside and push it out into the surrounding area. Let the power grow, flow, and reach out.
7. Breathe deeply and bow your head. Now gaze back at the world ready for whatever the day brings.

Backyard/Garden Connection

1. Fill a bowl with water and bring it to your garden or yard. (If you do not have a yard or garden, do this at a park or common ground.) Sit on the ground or by a patch of flowers/plants with it. Place your fingertips on the surface of the water and feel its energy, its purpose.
2. Now, clear your mind. Focus on your life source. Where does it come from? The head or the heart are most commonly recognizes. Place your hand over that space and plunge the other hand fully in the water.
3. Focus on the link between life and water. Visualize your energies going into the water and returning anew with the ripples.
4. Now place both hands on the ground. Skim fingertips over the soul. Feel its energy, its purpose.
5. Again, clear the mind. Dig with both hands and cover the hand that went underwater as much as you can. Once more, place the hand that did not get submerged over your internal source of energy.
6. Focus on the link between life and the soil. Visualize your energies going into the ground and returning anew.
7. Raise your arms to the sky and close your eyes. Feel the powers combining. Think of your ancestors who lived closer to nature and how their spirits must have felt. Imagine a future where that connection is restores. Visualize your place in that future.
8. Call upon the elements to aid you. Thank the gods/universe for the means.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2021. All rights reserved.

I've been developing my psychic abilities for some time now, and I often hear voices in my head that sound like a radio. This has been happening for the last two years, but it has gotten louder and louder. I'm not sure if these are my thoughts, input from Spirit, or maybe even actual radio signals. Is this natural? What do you think it is?

- B.

Dreamchaser:

It took me a lot of research to answer this question. I'm not a doctor and do not do medical readings of any kind. I don't want your local doctor giving you a psychic reading for me, and in return, I won't make medical diagnoses for your doctor. I think this stands to reason, especially since I prefer to use the Old Ways instead of relying on modern medicine when that's possible.

That said, I strongly recommend you visit your local ear doctor and get a hearing check done. There are a few medical conditions that could cause you to hear radio sounds in your head. The fact that you wrote that it has gotten "louder and louder" over a two-year period is what triggered me to start doing some medical research.

Everyone is different in the way they experience Spirit speaking to them. I know that my biological mother has a sense of smell that I just cannot explain. She will be able to describe or explain someone's behavior by the way that they smell. When I talk to her about people, she will say things like, "Does he smell like wet moss?" or "Does she smell like bleach?"

A great example I've shared here before involves her going into the same place of business over and over. She would ALWAYS smell vinegar when she was there. After months, she finally asked the owner why she could always smell vinegar so strongly. He said he had no idea. Later when she was there, he came up to her to tell her that there had once been a vinegar plant on the land, but it had been gone for years.

My son can see people in the room that no one else can see. They give him pictures of the past and present. My daughter can feel people's emotions and thoughts as if they were her own. I know when I'm "channeling" for a reading or just receiving information for myself, I have these "random" (and we all know they are not REALLY random) thoughts that jump into my head. They don't sound like voices, however - they "sound" like my own thoughts.

It also is just a "knowing." I just know things to be true, and what is what. So as you can see, everyone has their own way Spirit manifests for them. I don't think that anything can be deemed "normal" or "abnormal" in this regard.

If a medical/ hearing problem is ruled out, then you need to ask Spirit to show you why you are hearing these "radio sounds" in your head. Also, try to find a cheap EMF meter somewhere, and check to see if you have electrical spikes where you experience this phenomenon most frequently. I've heard that people living near power lines often "hear" things like this.

I wish you peace and QUIET - if that is what you really want.

*****

Astrea:

I thought EVERYONE experienced occasional buzzing noises and voices in their heads, for I've heard those sounds for as long as I can remember. I was so wrong!

When I got your question, I sought input from other people about their noises, and I discovered that not everyone is like you and me! Most people DO NOT have that buzzing, those voices, that radio noise playing from time to time in their heads. Feeling more unique and distanced from others than ever, I did some further research.

Most people who experience such things feel those voices come from Departed Ones as they are conversing with one another along the same electrical frequency on which some psychic people have brain waves. Because of the way these voices are garbled or scrambled, it comes in rather like the "chatter" that the government is always talking about.

Some people seem to gain great insights from what they perceive these voices saying. One person told me that when she can tune in well enough, the voices begin speaking in one UNISON voice, and she gets messages from outer space. A priest told me that he hears them in unison at times too, and that he feels it is a chorus of some kind of Messenger Angels. He gets information for his sermons that way.

Personally, I've always thought mine were conversations left in my head sometime between childhood and the present - things my brain throws around with a semi-conscious attempt at communication. Some of mine are newscasts, mostly about different wars. Some seem to be from prior incarnations with people who are strangers to me now. Some are television shows I never paid any conscious attention to - or that's what they sound like to me. Sometimes I think they are conversations I've had in dreams.

They come when I'm tired, and more often in some places than others. I noticed yesterday that the place my parents moved into doesn't have any voices. Their new apartment is absolutely SILENT inside. The place they were before was, well -HAUNTED! It was a very noisy place!

These sounds always seem electrical, like the static and soft sounds that come from a radio - that's exactly right. They also always seem garbled to me. I can pick up a word here and there, but I never even thought of trying to UNIFY them into one voice until the other people who hear them (and we seem to be few and far between, at least around here!) mentioned that idea to me.

Go to the place you find you hear them most, and try to pull them into one unison voice through meditation. If we can do that, we may just hear messages from Spirit! I'm going to try it. Good luck to you!

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.