Herbs and Plants make it all happen
...if it weren’t for the abundance of plant life on this planet
we wouldn’t be here...
Without the herbs and plants that grow around us our habitat and environment would
feel lifeless and somehow incomplete. The fact is it is the plants that have created the
environment in which we the animals can survive and go about our ecological function.
How can we not see this as the greatest life giving act of generosity!? The fact that we
don’t see it this way has so much to do with how we’ve been educated
in a reductionist system where everything is broken down into
parts so that we can study the whole.
For me this can never achieve its goal. If you take anything
alive apart how can you expect its living essence to remain
intact! The same can be said of nature and plants. No
amount of laboratory work or microscope analysis will
ever find the part of the Rose that imbues on the eyes of
the beholder the sense of joy or marvel. The healing one
receives can be so profound from even being in the
presence of a plant that it can’t be dismissed or denied nor
can its secret be found under the gaze of linear thinking.
The truth, magic and healing remains in the whole. This
being true when we separate ourselves from nature and the
living web then we to lose something vital in ourselves, instead
something living in us begins to fade and decay and can only be
nourished and fed from the living earth, Gaia and the elements. This is
the case for all our relationships.
In the same way a gardener needs to garden, I need to work with the direct healing
energy of plants and as a human I need to be in touch with my ‘being’. Nature isn’t
something that we just sit and observe, it is something we need to experience and be
part of all the days of our lives. The act of learning in life is the act of doing or
experiencing.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not against science its just we need to balance our approach to
nature. Acknowledging the role of science is important but it needs to be done from
the point of view that we are dealing with living phenomenon not inanimate objects.
Working with plants and people should include all forms of study, empirical, impirical,
experiential, intuitive. Everything should be of equal value and importance. Nothing
should be excluded. So for me I am interested in the latest research on a particular
condition and also I consider the person that presents to me with that particular
condition rather that being solely focused of the condition. The same can be said for
plant science. I do read up on the latest research and analysis on a particular plant
and at the same time I will go into nature and meet this plant and work directly with it
as a separate life form. When you work with a plant treat it as a person who you would
really like to get to know. Put in the time, effort and work. Be friendly, humble and be
willing to listen. This way your direct experience of the plant will help you more than
anything anyone else has managed to acquire or extract. Put it this way would you
trust your own experience of a person you met or someone else’s? Exactly!!
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Herba Vitalis Clinic
Zagreb, Croatia Croatian Mob: 095 8521649
Irish Mob: 086 1673272
“Engage in the natural
phenomenon of the living world,
co-create with the spirit of all
things and you will truly be
part of the web that has no
weaver!”
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