Tree Spirit Healing

Mirror Body  – Duel Nature

The tree’s experience is very different from most other life-forms on earth. It exists simultaneously in two different environments. The root experience is completely different from the branch experience. The consciousness of root/earth and branch/air can be seen as a variation of unconscious or subconscious root and conscious awareness of the branch. If one were to contact the energy of the ‘root’ it would probably be a different form of energy and experience to ‘branch’. So there may be at least these levels of being or personality or character: firstly the physical body in its entirety; secondly, the root as an inward-looking, stable unconscious; thirdly, the branch as an outward-looking, reaching, reactive conscious.

To approach the experience of this duel aspect of the tree consciousness, try the following:

Stand or sit and become aware of your body’s weight.

Take your attention to the bottom of the feet.

Let your awareness sink below your feet as a mirror image of yourself as it were, attached to your feet.

Extend your awareness so that it can simultaneously hold both your body and the mirror body images at the same time. This may initially be vague or disorienting.

Take your attention to specific parts of the body. Start with the soles of the feet – in physical, then in mirror body; the knees; the hips; the navel; the solar plexus; the hands; the shoulders; the top of the head.

Once you are more used to this swapping of focus, see if you can maintain simultaneous awareness in reflected spots, and then return to an overall view of yourself as both bodies.

When the exercise is completed, dissolve the image and spend a moment getting re-acquainted with the physical body.

(from”Tree: Essence, Spirit, Teacher”  p.49- 50)