EBI Live Connections and Introductions

[Wayne]

Michael,
Awesome first lecture and great information and exercises to help me feel connected to nature and myself. I breath, stretch, and meditate every morning and will add the present awareness piece too. Well done!
Wayne

[Michael]

Thank you Wayne!! Glad you enjoyed it. The recordings are now up! Keep me posted.

[Sam]

Hi everyone. I am Sam from Ireland. Delighted to be linked in to EBI again. It is a brilliant and manageable way for me to participate, so thanks EBI team.
I previously did a nature connection online course some years back and loved it. I feel I experience nature somewhat superficially, even though I value and spend time in it regularly. It is not always with the intention of connecting deeper. Rather a need just to feel good, a sense of peace, and enjoy nature and enjoy walking my dog. I have fleeting, spontaneous, irregular moments of practising nature connection. This has been interesting and good, but I would like more of this in my life. I am looking forward to developing a practice that is sustainable and compliments other self care routines. Self care and development seem to require much time and practice.
Especially looking forward to next month re habits/routines.

Thanks Michael and the team.
Sam

[Daniel Brisbon]

Hey Sam,

Thanks so much for reaching out and so happy to see you’re able to get linked back in with us!

I appreciate that you shared about the value you get from your time in nature and that developing a sustainable nature-connected practice is very important to you and is also a practice that you want to empower and maintain. I’m curious to know what specific details in the habits/routines department that you would like to focus on. Is it consistency in your routines and rituals that you are looking for? Or taking the habits/routines you are already doing to a deeper level? And what does sustainability in your routines look like for you?

I am guiding this webinar and would love to make sure that the material I cover touches on what exactly it is you are seeking and looking for! Looking forward to hearing your response!

Daniel

[Daniel Brisbon]

Hey Sam,

Thanks so much for reaching out and so happy to see you’re able to get linked back in with us!

I appreciate that you shared about the value you get from your time in nature and that developing a sustainable nature-connected practice is very important to you and is also a practice that you want to empower and maintain. I’m curious to know what specific details in the habits/routines department that you would like to focus on. Is it consistency in your routines and rituals that you are looking for? Or taking the habits/routines you are already doing to a deeper level? And what does sustainability in your routines look like for you?

I am guiding this webinar and would love to make sure that the material I cover touches on what exactly it is you are seeking and looking for! Looking forward to hearing your response!

Daniel

[Sam]

Hi Daniel

Thanks for getting back to me. Regarding sustainable habits/routines, my hopes and aims are to practice more regularly in a way that doesn’t leave huge gaps of time between weeks but keeps me tuned in, and yet be able to practice other meditative and health care practices. Also to continue practising in the future. Just to give you an example, I would most days get up early and do a little yoga/stretching. Due to a my body seemingly not getting any younger, and due to small physical injuries/weaknesses, I also have to do specific pyhsiotherapy/ movements/ exercises daily. Other stuff I can do when travelling in the car. So up until now my morning routine is yoga etc, and have tuned into nature more deeply when I feel like it or remember to. It may be a minute or it could be 10 minutes- very sporadic.

When I use the term ‘deeper connection’, I mean to observe and experience connection to nature differently to now. So I could be out in a forest walking my dog and I may sit down and tune into the sounds around me. Then my dog would distract me, or I could get cold and I get up and go knowing that I could sit longer and practice more or practice other techniques, but I don’t, I get up and move on. So I know what I could do but don’t for one reason or another. I know what is good for me, and I am trying to make the unfamiliar more familiar.

Just doing this online course has already spurred on my intentions, so I am sure whatever you teach and share will be very interesting.

Take care
Sam

[Daniel Brisbon]

Yes, I hear the desire and need for consistency in your nature-connected habits! I will talk about this piece of habit forming on our webinar on Monday. Hope to see you there and we can explore how this may look like for you!

[Michael]

Great to be reconnected, Sam! Welcome back!

[Amber McCormick]

Thank you for this, Michael! I found the part about the Gaia waves so interesting. It’s definitely something I want to do more research on. Lately, I’ve found myself living two separate lives- one where my current home and full-time job are located, and one in the mountains of western Maine where I see my life and my NCC business moving to. I’ve been saying for a year and a half now that I need to get out of this area because the energy here jars me. I can literally feel the change when I drive to and from the different locations (independent of time of year, work, personal obligations, or moods). When I’ve talked to people about this, they tend to respond as if I’m sensing something that’s not real, or told that it’s something within me that’s unsettled, not the environment. It made me feel a little crazy, however I have felt this deep truth about my experiences, especially knowing my connection to nature. I’m thinking this may be what I’ve been feeling and I feel a little less crazy now, so thank you!!!

[Doris Navarro]

Hi Michael!
I just watched the first video, and had a question about the sense of direction activity. When you have no clues about the direction you are facing, and just feel the pull towards that specific direction, what if you feel you are facing North when in truth you are facing East? I knew my direction during the exercise, but I wonder how would that work in an unfamiliar environment where I have no visual clues?

[Sam]

Session Re: What is transformation really? Michael Jospe

Thanks Michael for this beauty!! I am very interested in change and what actually works. My background is in youth and community work and I am taking a break from working with others.I found the Grand Canyon analogy brilliant and used this as a visual aid for identifying old patterns and how to respond, instead of using the wheel with the graph I drew two canyons, one large and one small. I listed old patterns thoughts and behaviours in the larger canyon and I listed how I will respond to these to support and create new patterns. This is for one goal by the way. I found that my goal, initially sounds simple is quite complex and requires many interventions at different times. The canyon analogy helped me pin point responses instead of addressing patterns spontaneously. As I grow and practise healthy habits I get that two things are going on here; 1)I am nurturing myself, my essence, my mind and my brain daily( with some of these at different times; yoga, meditation, heart coherence meditation, nature, gratitude. 2) And then there is the practise of responding to old patterns and behaviours as they arise.The brain seems to operate at a very high speed. With one specific part of my goal I find myself not catching the thought/feelings that pre-empt the undesired behaviour or I simply say to myself “F***k it”. I explored Joe Dispenza as recommended and I find his work fascinating about what happens in the brain and the body when we think, feel and visualise a new reality. It is encouraging and empowering as I knew thoughts and feelings affect behaviour etc but I didn’t really know exactly how. Anyway it is a work in progress. Hope others in the group are getting on ok. T
May you all have peace and be well during these times.
Thanks
Sam, Ireland