11: Flowing With Life - Natural Hot Spring

Reading time: 11 minutes

If you read Part One, "Digging Through the Rubble," thank you! I truly appreciate you and your comments. My backstory may have been difficult to read; it was the most challenging to write. Still, bringing the past into the light is the only way to embody the awareness to heal and change.

Please join me in reading Part Two, "Mother Earth and Me," where I immersed myself in the natural world while creating vibrational essences. During this time, I encountered nature spirits, ancestors, and star beings, which revealed a deep connection between humans and the unseen benevolent forces of the natural world that exist beyond our everyday awareness. Nature provided the love, support, and guidance I needed to reframe the past and recover my future. I'm thrilled to share my experience, portraying how an intimate relationship with the natural world is available to all of us!

I am releasing the following chapters for free.
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Dangerous Road Home
Chapter 10: Embracing Change – Smoke, Wind, and Whitebark Pine
However, the rest of the manuscript requires a paid subscription. If the cost is a hardship, email marnie@dreaminginthereal.com, and I will be happy to offer a scholarship.

PLEASE START HERE to access chapters in chronological order.       

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“If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.” ~ Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

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DURING MY BRIEF stay in Alaska, surrounded by pristine mountains, lakes, glaciers, and plants, an undeveloped part of my intuition awakened. I started assisting others interested in incorporating essences into their lives and began compiling the necessary case studies to obtain my practitioner certification. Inspired by what I learned from the essence of smoke, wind, and whitebark pine, I spent more time in the forests and meadows of Montana, where I deeply connected with the heightened intelligence of nature.

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Pen and pencil sketch of making the Natural Hot Spring essence.

December 21, 2012

FIELD NOTES: Elk Bend, Idaho, Salmon-Challis National Forest

I woke up feeling off-center and wobbly, as if I needed to find my sea legs. I focused on one thing at a time, and after an hour of trying to maneuver in what seemed like shifting sands, I took some time to sit quietly, meditate and breathe, and align with the life-giving energy of Mother Earth.

The last six months encompassed a painful and challenging process of letting go. Not only another failed relationship, but I also lost my home and the financial resources I worked my entire life to protect. When I feared I might lose everything else in my life, the smoke, wind, and whitebark pine essence reminded me to accept the changes and trust that the universe was conspiring in my favor, even when I couldn't see it.