By Liliana Usvat
Blog 300-365
Facts
Blog 300-365
Facts
- Given a choice between a scene with trees and one without trees, people of all ages and ethnic groups from various countries prefer the scene with trees regardless of whether they live in urban, suburban or rural areas.
- Just knowing that natural places are available nearby makes a residence more appealing to buyers.
- People are more satisfied with their neighborhoods if there are trees on or near their property. They describe their quality of life as safer, more pleasant and are more satisfying than people living in homes without trees nearby.
- Residents living in apartments with a window view of tress are significantly less aggression toward family members than those whose windows look onto concrete, asphalt or barren earth. This includes their making fewer insults and threats and other psychologically aggressive behavior.
- Police report lower crime rates in areas of public housing developments that have a density of trees.
- Residents of urban public housing use common spaces with trees more often than common spaces that are barren of trees
- Hospital patients with a window view of trees need less pain medication and are discharged sooner than patients with treeless views.
India
I In India sacred trees are visited by petitioners seeking blessings, especially for health and fertility, from the indwelling spirit or deity who is usually regarded as female and a manifestation of the Earth Goddess? Food and flowers are left at the foot of the tree or shrine and ribbons of cloth or coloured wish bags are tied to the tree.
Ireland
The Celtic Druids worshipped not in temples, but in groves of trees. These natural woodland sites may have predated the Celts. Those that have been identified are frequently centred on a convergence of earth energies. In former Celtic groves in Wales, Brittany, Ireland and Cornwall the trees are still adorned with ribbons, trinkets and petitions for healing and blessings.
Australia
The Australian Aborigines used healing remedies from trees such as tea tree and eucalyptus centuries before they entered more conventional medicine Tea tree leaves were inhaled by the Aborigines to prevent nasal, throat and chest congestion and ground into a paste to relieve burns and skin infections.
Canada
Native Canadians knew all about those benefits. According to a nearly 500-year-old legend, French explorer Jacques Cartier's ship got stuck in the ice near Quebec. He and his crew faced certain death from scurvy (a vitamin C deficiency) until a tribal chieftain named Donacona brewed the sailors pine tea. It saved their lives and their explorations continued. Later, in the 1940s, a French researcher named Jacques Masquelier discovered that pine bark and needles contain vitamin C.
Tree Meditation - Merging with the essence of the tree
I encourage you to set aside 30 minutes to go out and climb, touch, hug or just be near a tree and meditate on all of the richness they provide to the planet, not only visually, but in their healing medicinal properties, cleaning our air, providing a place for children to play and providing the materials for our homes.
The fact that trees give off oxygen just before dawn, which wakes up the birds and makes them sing! Put your hands on a tree and open to the teaching it has for you and send your gratitude back to her.
- If possible work so that sunlight is filtering through the leaves
- Begin by sitting against the trunk for a while, making connection with the forest floor and through the bark with the energy flowing upwards form the earth.
- Put your hands on the floor and press down with your feet, picturing any excess energies and negative feelings as dark light sinking downwards into the earth.
- When you feel calm, stand facing the tree so your fingers on both hands and your toes are lightly touching the trunk.
- Picture as liquid gold or russet red, rich light rising in beams through your feet and legs, flowing through every part of your body, finding its own pathways.
- Then allow the stream of gold to be carried back through your fingertips into the tree, absorbing your pain or sorrow and rising again pure and clear through your feet in a continuing cycle/.
- Focus on any part of your body that is experiencing pain or problem and visualise the energy swirling there anti-clockwise and then clockwise, clearing the blockage or problem.
- You may experience a surge or energy or a gentler flow of light within you. Continue creating the circuit with the tree energy until you feel powerful and protected.
- Hug the tree
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