Native warrior quote
Overview
This devoted mother bird shows her dedication to mothering. Mothering is the most central part of the caring we all do.
Holding caring for life at the centre will keep all of us strong though the pain that is here and into the future due to climate change and other threats to our sacred mother, our earth.
It’s good for all of us to be treated with care. Mothering involves loving, nurturing: caring for heart and mind, as well as food and shelter. Caring can make us happy and emotionally healthy human beings for the rest of our life. Nature needs it too, especially now.
Care for Life of the heart
The practices here help us envision and experience a taste of a future where caring life is at the heart of all we humans do
1. Developing love
2. Healing emotional pain
we move towards love when we affirm the life of the heart. miserable emotions are also love, That is the health of the heart, not New Age positive, denying the negative, but embracing it and affirming the negative in a way that brings it along to transformation. Not just to say it’s just fine for me to feel angry, jealous, etc. be life affirming about the miserable emotions, realizing they are love; not pushing them away and saying you have to be positive all the time.
The waterfall meditation is for washing out pains, both bodily and emotional; and thoughts.
Climate anxiety
Pleasures and strengths Clearance
Pleasure is life giving
Developing strength
Clearance
Elements = love
Gender – compassion for conditioning
Feeling sacredness
Deities
and those are what’s not being cared for in this world so much,
Indigenous peoples around the world have obligations to care for the earth, to care for country. This sense of our human responsibility to be custodians, to look after the earth, needs to be rebuilt in all of us in a mother nature-archy paradigm.
Culture Shift
How would we build a community based on caring? What would that mean in all parts of our life? Mothering and children? How would we care for nature? For elders, the sick and disabled? How would we meet with different cultures that we share this planet with?
How would we look after the life of each other’s hearts? Support each other, foster love?
How would we heal the damage of patriarchy to bring us through to that? the transition is also important, and caring is going to help with that.
Actions for Caring for Life
There are many ways in which caring for life practices can help to build a sustainable, mother nature-archy, world, such as :
Encourage strengths and a kind heart in others.
Actions for a kind way of life for all people and the earth.
practical work such as caring for children, planting trees.
Build a way of life that supports and cares for all people – children, elderly, all living things in nature.
Actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
All these caring actions help to build a mother nature-archy paradigm
Summary