Hello,
I'm Penelope Mavor,
Founder of EarthConverse,
A nature-based leadership collaborative helping you best serve people and planet.
And this is part of the EarthConverse invitation to you,
To commit to a daily conscious practice of visualizing the futures you want to serve.
A chance to exercise your potential and responsibility of co-creating the futures you want for your self,
Each other and the earth that is our home.
At EarthConverse I am visualizing people all around the world doing it,
Joining in daily at 7pm CET or whenever you can,
Knowing others are also energetically engaging in this with you.
By future visualization,
I mean by engaging your imagination and feeling into it with all your senses.
Like a sports athlete visualizing a race before they do it,
They create the neural pathways and physiological state as if it was happening in the present.
In visualizing the futures we want,
We are not starting from a blank slate.
In ourselves the future is already here.
The caterpillar holds the imago of the butterfly.
The acorn longs to be an oak.
Furthermore,
There are so many visionaries,
Philosophers,
Thinkers,
Artists,
Healers,
Scientists,
People and beings who offer visions of possible life affirming futures who can serve to ignite our imagination.
Ones who have already painted a picture of what healing is possible and what intelligent responses exist to help and are already helping to regenerate our communities and planet.
And for this visualization we are focusing on climate and I'm choosing to do it by bringing in the work of Charles Eisenstein and specifically his book Climate,
A New Story.
For it invites a wholesale reimagining of this complex interconnected and critical issue.
I hope to honor his work and intention in this format of an Earth-converse visualization to help stimulate your own visions,
Dreams,
Longings and truth.
I will create prompts generally from the summary points he makes on page 58 and chapter 12 of his book.
I know the prompts may come too dense,
Fast or too slow that they may or may not fit you but may they serve to be a reminder of his work,
A contribution to your own exploration and be a springboard for your imagination,
Your work.
So let's take some minutes to visualize a climate future for our Earth from a place of calm and connectedness.
I invite you to get comfortable and close your eyes if that feels right.
Maybe take a few long deep breaths to bring you into the present.
Invigorating on the in-breath,
Relaxing on the out-breath.
Now scan your body.
Notice your inner climate,
Your body-mind,
Thoughts,
Feelings,
Sensations that are arising.
What is your mood?
And come into connection to the sacred elements within.
Like with each breath,
Honor the element of air and what it gives in clarity,
Vision and truth.
Perhaps notice the temperature in your body to honor the element of fire and its gifts of transformation.
Notice the saliva in your mouth,
The blood in your veins,
The moisture on your skin to honor water and what it knows about surrendering to the flow of life.
And notice the points of contact with your own body and with the ground to honor the element of air,
The playground to manifest your dreams in the physical.
Notice your interaction with the external climate,
The air,
Moisture,
Temperature,
Material world.
Tune into the sounds and smells around you.
Notice what else is around you.
You may sense past,
Present and future generations with you.
Embrace everything that arises with awareness and compassion.
And from this calm and connected state,
Open to a new story on climate.
Where you feel into the earth as a living organism through your senses as a living organism.
Feel the organs and tissues of Gaia through sensing your own organs and tissues.
Feel in your heart climate action coming from love rather than fear.
Visualize a world where each biome,
Each local ecosystem,
Each species is free to contribute uniquely to the health and resilience of the whole.
Where all beings,
Plants,
Animals,
Soil,
Rivers,
Ocean,
Mountains,
Forests,
All ecosystems are respected as alive sentient subjects.
Where human life is integrated with the rest of life.
Where ecological,
Racial and social healing is integrated.
See a healthy planet benefiting from the physical and spiritual health of humanity.
Knowing that having listened deeply to the earth we have developed new ways of knowing and have nurtured earth's capacity to self-regulate.
Sit in the awareness that our psychic,
Political,
Social climates are intimately connected to the atmospheric climate.
Visualize agriculture,
Technology and our economies acting in service of life.
Absorb yourself in humanity contributing its gifts to the beauty,
Aliveness and evolution of the earth.
Ground yourself again to the earth feeling the physicality of your body as we go deeper into manifesting specific tangible actions.
Each of these prompts can be a visualization in themselves.
Again dive into them in your own timing and way.
Visualize a world where land regeneration is generously stimulated by philanthropic,
Public and governmental support.
Where there is no longer any logging,
Mining,
Drilling and development in all primary ecosystems.
Where more land is protected for wildlife in a way that protects indigenous livelihoods.
A world where there are new and expanded marine reserves and a third of the ocean estuaries and coastlines are no take,
No drill,
No development sanctuaries.
A world where there are no drift nets and bottom trawling in the ocean.
Where there are no plastic bags for retail purchases and beverage containers are refillable.
Where the World Bank serves ecological healing rather than development.
Where forestation and reforestation projects happen all around the globe with ecologically appropriate native species.
Where all generations are engaged in ecological health.
Where water restoration projects happen worldwide and food systems are relocalized.
Where negative interest financial system creates flow and manufacturers create durable repairable products with easily recoverable materials.
A world also where neither pesticides nor military exist.
Breathe into those possibilities.
As Charles concludes in his book,
All the policies and practices I have described are within reach right now.
The vision of a green world is not fantasy,
Nor however is it realistic.
What it is,
Is possible.
It requires each one of us to dedicate ourselves,
Unreasonably and with no guarantee of success,
To our unique form of service.
It requires that we trust our knowing that a healed world,
A green world,
A more beautiful world is truly possible.
I hope this amplifies that calling and true to you to that possibility.
Coming back to your body,
What your heart knows,
Open your eyes and carry this with you in your service to yourself,
Each other and the earth that is our home.
