Staying Rooted, Centered, & Connected

~By Connie Habash

photo by Vlad Patana on Unsplash.com

How do we stay rooted and centered through the many challenges we face in our world? How can we consistently return, again and again, to our connection with the Divine? Trees show us the way.

We humans have the gift of mobility – we walk around and move in a variety of ways, traveling to amazing places. But what we gain with having two legs that can take us a variety of places we lose by our lack of roots. We can feel untethered, foundering around with little sense of our greater Divine Selves or a place on this planet where we belong.

Our friends the Trees can help us when we feel like we’re flailing in the latest drama unfolding, or when we feel ungrounded, without roots to connect us to place and Spirit. Trees teach us that we do, actually, have roots. But they require a subtle awareness of internal energy and a refined attention to our deep connection to the Earth that is our home.

When we learn to ground through our own energetic connection to the soil and planet beneath us, we not only feel more stable and solid; we begin to feel more interconnected with all of life. The roots of trees interweave with other roots, sharing in stability, information, and resources. You’re never alone in the forest. You are an essential and intricate part of the entire ecosystem, and there is no question that you belong.

By coming together in community and consciously tending to our roots in the Earth, we humans can find one another and a deepened relationship with Spirit as manifest through our home we call The Earth. Like the trees share support, resources, and information, we learn to tend to one another, inspire each other, and feel the sense of connection that only comes from rooting down and finding our common ground, rather than scattering with the wind in other directions.

So let us join with the example of The Trees in contemplative communities to experience this sense of energetic and communal rooting and connection, feeling ourselves part of something greater.

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An invitation:

If you’d like to experience this sense of energetic and communal rooting and connection like the trees have, join us in The Redwood Circle, where we share in spiritual practice and conversation, compassionate support, upliftment, and the feeling of being part of something greater than ourselves.