Working with nature

It seems to me that we spend our lives trying to defy nature. We know better than Mother Earth and try to alter the course of the way things are done. As we can see it often ends in disease, destruction and disharmony.

One of our problems is that we don’t notice small things around us, our heads are usually filled with ourselves so that the environment around us becomes insignificant.

This week I listened to a wonderful talk about bees by Brigit Strawbridge Howard, I have never heard anyone talk quite so passionately about her subject. When she realised that she had no idea of the names of our native trees, it highlighted the fact that she hardly noticed the natural world around her. She has certainly come a long way from that moment as her knowledge of the 270 species of bees in the UK is next to none.

Brigit is an example of if you really look you find the most extraordinary things going on right in front of our noses. If we cannot appreciate their existence we cannot be aware of their importance. Her book ‘Dancing with Bees’ is a good example of this.

Recently, I have become aware of The Harmony Project which is a new way of looking at our world, exploring the principles of harmony and applying them in the workplace and education so we all understand connection and appreciation. Richard Dunne encourages us all to think about this. theharmonyproject.org.uk

Nature is brilliant. For instance, many drugs have their origins in plants. These plants have been used for thousands of years, but often once the components in the plants are extracted and transformed into drugs, they have side effects. Pure plants on the other hand work as a whole, another example of harmony.

As a reflexologist, I work with harmony in the body, making sure all our systems are balanced. This is the basis of good health. Our body is full of patterns that we never see unless we take a structure and look at it under a microscope. These patterns are so tiny, we need to look for them as scientists have done over the years, and appreciate those images and connect to the beautiful structures which are us.

Examples of DNA structure and Liver cells.