Nature’s Notion

• Feel overwhelmed and unable to cope with prior, present, possible experiences?
• Feel like you’re hitting brick walls as you try to move forward in life?
• Have ideas and need clarity on your next step?
• Experience frustration in your career or interactions with others?

NATURE KNOWS:

1. how to persist and even thrive in a wide variety of conditions (think mint or bamboo)
2. how to change and evolve effortlessly (think vines and other plants that adapt to their surroundings)
3. how to be abundant (think zucchini and tomatoes and dandelions)

Let Nature’s Notions inspire your next choices.

Last week my brother-in-law gave me his Tom Tom that he was no longer using.  My first attempt at using it was both interesting (took a route I’d never have imagined) and frustrating! 

Driving along, marveling at sights I’d never seen before…”Wow, I never knew this was here.”

“after 700 yards, turn left, then bear to the right“  then SILENCE for blocks

How far is 700 yards?  What street am I turning on?  ….the choices I would have made without the GPS playing on my mind and trying to figure out what the route is….

“after 500 yards turn left“ 

“turn around and make a  right on the next street“  THAT was 500 yards?  Oh.

After several rounds of this, and feeling confused and frustrated, trying to navigate traffic and streets that are unfamiliar, it STRUCK me ”This is a LOT like how intuition works!”  We get “hits” and then nothing.  We are expected to respond to what was given.  If we act on our intuition we get another “hit”, but not before floundering around in some new, and sometimes scary, territory.

If the idea that was presented is out of our normal range of activity, or pushes us toward something we are afraid of, or it seems too big a risk to act on….NOTHING – SILENCE….while “it” waits for us to open up for another opportunity to give us another “hit”. 

We rarely know what the “route” is; we just have this sense that we need to do something in particular, like take that upcoming seminar.  We don’t know why; we haven’t finished paying for the last seminar we took and haven’t finished integrating everything from the last seminar…and “you want me to go to another one!?” (That’s gone through my head more than once.)   Then, after the seminar, when we’ve made valuable connections and gotten new insights….and actually integrated that earlier seminar thanks to this new information….we see where this Goal Positioning System was taking us.

The Goal Positioning System adjusts for our choices too; just like the GPS recalculates our route and gives new instructions when we did not take the recommended street.  

Sometimes we choose not to respond to a hint or opportunity, and we find out after the fact why we had that “hit”.  Something similar will arise again and give us an opportunity to take another route toward our goal, and we will have learned something from the “not choosing” (oh, that’s 500 yards).

Unless we never respond, then it’s like not recharging the battery; it dies out.  We end up feeling like life has passed us by.

I finally figured out how to get the GPS to display an overview of the streets on its planned route and that eased my confusion.  I then had more information to rely on, and I could just enjoy the ride.

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If YOUR personal GPS needs recharging, or you would like assistance in learning how to work with it, a session or two with Kateri can clear the mind clutter and reconnect you with your heart goals, and attune you to the frequency your messages are being delivered on, so you can find your optimal life route.

In 1995/1996 I was introduced to information that so inspired me that I verbally stated “I want to work with Nature in a more conscious, tangible way.” I’d already been working with flower essences and taken some training in that area. I wanted something more, something deeper. As I continued researching various lines of essences, the book Plant Spirit Medicine by Eliot Cowan “jumped off a shelf” at my local bookstore.

The reading of it touched me so deeply, I cried through half the book. I needed to study with this man. It was 1999 before I finally got that opportunity and was formally introduced to Nature as a true partner in the work that I now find myself performing.

Through these years of working co-creatively with nature via Perelandra processes and Plant Spirit Medicine, I have found that nature is not just plants and earth and trees. Nature is an Intelligence. It organizes and supports ALL life on earth, from the most minute quark to the cycles and rhythms of our bodies and our days, and how they all interact.

As I was casting about for a title or term that accurately describes my work, the term “Nature’s Notion” popped into my head. In my Webster’s Dictionary, “notion” is “a conception, idea; a general concept”.

Nature is always in balance and harmony with everything that is occurring. It has to be; that’s its job.

True, the environment, as we know it, is a mess – but nature is constantly balancing against what we’ve done, are doing, to it. That margarine commercial from the 70’s or 80’s – “It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature” [sic] often plays across my mental screen whenever there are devastating storms or earth upheavals.

Nature knows how to maintain balance with what IS; and also, how to Create a balance that you or I consider to be harmonious. It doesn’t always look like we think it should or might.

My job is to take what the client presents and, using nature’s notions, restore balance and equilibrium within the energetic and spiritual systems or plant the seeds of the client’s desired objectives for nature to balance and align with.  These changes, then, naturally affect the mental and physical levels.  With nature’s role being primary in my work, the title “Nature’s Notion” is perfect.  Of course.

A vibrational or flower essence is a liquid (usually a brandy or vinegar base) infused with the electrical vibrations of various plants and/or elements.

Before you have a thought or before you move a muscle there is first a movement or spark within your electrical system.  Flower essences work on both your electrical and nervous systems.  With the aid of essences thus, your mind and body can respond more effectively to other healing modalities, enhance your learning experiences, and much more.

They are safe and effective for humans of any age as well as all kinds of animals, and the ways in which they can be used are many.  Please explore my Links page to find out more.

In addition to all we receive from the physical properties of the plants in our world (food, shelter, clothing), they have something to offer our spirit as well.  “Spirit” being that source which enlivens us and gives us a purpose for being. 

There are many therapies and modalities that affect the physical, mental, and energetic bodies.  Plant Spirit Medicine (PSM) is the only one that I currently know of that goes beyond all of this, directly to your core essence – without engaging the mind.  PSM is a method of healing that is deep. 

You do not need to know what is wrong, you don’t have to understand or gain insights in order to start to feel better.  As you are returned to harmony with the natural rhythms and cycles of life, needed understandings and insights can come to you, sometimes quite effortlessly, without a lot of anguish and pain.  It may also become easier to naturally and effortlessly make choices that are more healthful and supportive of the lifestyle you desire.

When you are operating from a feeling of lack (in any area of life) it makes it really, really hard to move forward in ways that are meaningful to you.  PSM brings to your spirit those deeper elements of your environment that are lacking.  Oftentimes addictions and unhealthy cravings are the manifestation of a deep imbalance that is not being met.  To force a change – as in dieting or hypnosis – without feeding the true need, only deepens the imbalance.

PSM can be a different experience for every person.  There is a relationship that is formed between the practitioner and the plant spirits that allows this deep work to take place.  The plant spirits will work in a manner that is best suited to the practitioner and to the clients that are seen.  Regardless of what form it takes, I have always found it to be a marvel and an honor to serve in this way.