How to Communicate With Trees

By Lucifera , eHow Member

Pear tree at night

The evergreens, standing in a row of peaked shadows against the sky, gather and watch you. Small fruit trees brighten and joyfully cast light all around them. Leaves shimmer in the breezes like tongues. Trees lean toward you, and in winter seem to move in closer as if seeking warmth.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging Things You’ll Need:

• A desire to communicate with nature
• Open senses
• Letting go of preconceptions and allowing unlimited possibilities
• Trees

Step 1

Allow that all things are alive, have spirits, and that we are connected on a deep level. Tune in to the trees and focus on their beauty, their energy, and how they grow out of the earth and reach the sky. Focus on how the light plays over the leaves, how the shadows gather deep inside, and the branches move making patterns in space. There is an old tradition, called Ogham, that told oracles based on the way twigs and branches intersect. This knowledge is available to those who have the desire and patience to learn it.
Step 2
Still your mind.
Stop all thoughts and focus on the trees. When your mind is empty, then the silent things of the world can cut through to your consciousness with subtle vibrations, images, feelings, and even sounds though they will not be in English, or even in words, but in treespeak. Whatever you attend to attends to you. There are no objects in nature, but souls.
Step 3
Green Man spirit of green and growing things
When you realize that the trees will communicate with you, you will find that all of nature is alive and full of spirits. You will also find that, as do the animals, the trees will register events that are about to take place, not only rain coming, but earthquakes, pollution levels, danger, as well as celebration and happiness. They express the health of a place on all levels.

Tips & Warnings

• The meditative state that this kind if attunement brings is extremely relaxing. You become open and sensitized to nature. Spirituality, poetry, and artistic inspiration will increase because the Muses are part of the spirit world of Earth.
• The trees can teach you to open to the "unseen" levels of existence. This in turn opens your heart to unconditional love.
• Remember, with this in mind, when you get your Christmas tree, say a little prayer for the tree. Give thanks and acknowledge the gift of beauty and rebirth that the tree is giving you. Be aware that the tree marks the Solstice, the time of increasing light.