Healing From Stress
It had been a particularly stressful few days at work and I decided I should get up and take a walk around the building. It was actually dry and sunny with a bit of wind to keep it from being too hot. On my walk, Hi’iaka approached me and instructed me to connect with Nature, move the energy around my body, let it bind to negative energy, and then send it back to remove it from my body. She watched silently as I practiced the technique and then gave the impression that it can be used to help heal, too, if that’s the intent.
The first step is to connect with Nature itself. In my case, it was a grassy field I was walking beside.
Calm your mind and reach out to it, feeling it as a collective whole and not the individual parts of it. This is similar to connecting to feel out a house or landmark and shouldn’t take too much effort.
Once you can feel a connection with it, inhale, pulling the energy into yourself. Let it mix with your energy and allow it to bind to the negative energy you’d like to remove, such as stress, pain, or injury. If you need to do this over several breaths, that’s fine.
Exhale and send the energy back into Nature. Let the Earth ground it for you.
Repeat as needed. I did it for ten minutes the first time I performed it and it really helped reduce the stress and general anxiety over the rest of the day.
As a follow-up to this, I was on a walk and my hip was a little achy from the previous day’s workout (overuse injury recovery). It wasn’t excessively painful and wouldn’t need even ibuprofen. I was successfully ignoring it when I felt Hi’iaka come by and remind me of the above exercise. Instead of cycling it throughout my whole body, I was told to pull it into that specific spot, let it mix however long it needs to, until it starts to lessen or dull (meaning it’s being used), and then return it to the soil. Repeat the process as needed or desired.
A few points I wanted to make about using it in this way, though. It’s not tied to breathing as much, since the healing energy of Nature should be allowed to take the time it needs to work. Another is that she did indicate a better result would be obtained from returning the energy (including anything it may have picked up or attached to) back to the source, a grassy field in this case. Think of it as both a returning of what was borrowed and a way to ground. I wasn’t quite following the “grounding” portion of it, as I ground frequently. She indicated that if it becomes a habit to ground the energy into Nature, then those times when we forget or don’t quite do enough of it compared to our workloads will be better balanced by habit.
The final point I wanted to make was that I questioned why Nature would want that stale (by comparison) energy returned to it. Was it being forced on those entities I connected to (grass field here)? If it was, that’s fine, but the question popped up in my head and I’m still unsure if it was mine or…encouraged. She was a little amused. Using grass as an example, she stated that grass takes from the soil and the sun to sustain itself. “It can give back, too”. That wasn’t what I was expecting, but I appreciated it and I took some time to reflect on it during the rest of my walk.