Awakening Your Ecological Self Through Sensory Writing

Our connection to nature is innate but, for many, lies hidden. To begin a relationship with another, we must speak the same language. To understand a new language, we must immerse ourselves in a new land and listen to its rhythms, tones, and cadence. This immersion becomes our first step back into the wholeness we experienced in childhood. This ecological selfhood has been waiting for our return.

Nature speaks to us through our senses—through the wisdom of the body, the memory of place, the language of feeling, and the whispers of spirit. Like poets who make their way in the world on the wings of experience, we gather fragments of awareness while remaining mindful of the present moment.

To connect with nature is to connect with our ecological self—that part of us that exists without names in natural space, that knows itself both as individual and as part of the whole web of life. This connection asks us first to listen, to gather awareness through body, place, mood, and spirit. The writing comes later, emerging from these gathered moments like seeds sprouting in fertile soil.

Beginning Your Practice

Jot down your sensations as you begin your connection in nature. What is the strongest sensation? Where did it lead you? A feeling, a place, a memory, or something else?

These simple questions open doorways to deeper connection. Each sensation can become a thread that leads you back to yourself, back to wholeness, back to that ecological self waiting to be remembered.