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SONGBIRD
by Esmeralda Raven Aponte

In other words, that’s like saying “I’m perfect pure Energy. I
eagerly go forth into physical. I get confused, I bang around
and I focus on things that cause me to diminish my connection SONGBIRD is about our con-
to Source Energy. I feel awful. In my awfulness, I do awful nectedness to nature. Earth,
things to others (which is the only time anybody does anything rivers, mountains, trees and
awful to anybody else, when they’re diminished from their animals. If you spend time
connection with Source). And then, finally I do the ultimate in nature, you've probably
thing: I blow myself up and a bunch of other people, too.” noticed that you feel happier
out there than inside.
And in that moment, the pain stops; in that moment,
that’s the extent of the negative stuff that’s happening. In One of the better known theo-
the moment that that focus discontinues - that focus that ries, the ‘biophilia hypoth-
got you there in that place of disconnection - you reemerge esis,’ suggests that we love
back into the Pure Positive Energy of that which is You. nature because we evolved in
it. We need it for our psycho-
Friends, you go to a horrible movie and you get up in the logical well-being because it's
middle of it and you walk out, and you don’t take that movie in our DNA. When you're in nature you’re focused on the set-
and everything that you watched in there with you. You have ting around you and behold the beauty. This impacts us below
a life that’s bigger than what you saw in that movie, and you the level of thought.
have a life that’s bigger than any individual life that you are
living here. The urgency, deadlines and ‘clock time,’ measured by hours,
minutes and seconds, melt away. Clocks teach us to abandon
It isn’t the way they’ve made it out to be. You are not being the natural rhythms of our bodies and the Earth and conform
held accountable for every action, and that negative action to a schedule rooted in economic systems which create stress.
that you might have offered doesn’t dog you for all eternity
- you are too big and too long-living for that. You never get it However, nature models a healthier pace of life. Trees and
done and you cannot get it wrong, and the reason you cannot plants grow slowly and when you start moving to their natural
get it wrong is because you never get it done. So you could rhythm you feel that you belong to this Earth. That you are
stand in a horrible place but you’re not done - you can still made of the same substance and remember who you truly are.
move up the Emotional Scale. You feel comfortable in your own skin and experience your own
quiet peace and strength. You sense the inner you that is the
Q: It was kind of like, well, what did that life contribute true you and brings you closer to your own spirit and to Spirit.
to? It just seemed to be negative; took everything away. This is why nature heals, and helps us to live lives of meaning
But I hear what you’re saying. and joy.

A: Well, what it contributed, and here’s the thing - you make a SONGBIRD symbolically
very good point here because sometimes people will say to Es- shows the tree growing
ther, or someone like Esther who is tapped into Source Energy from her head, her mind,
and who is expressing it in ways that are meaningful and help- representing a home for
ful to others, “Well, isn’t it nice to have those like Esther (or the flying songbirds. It is
those others) who are able to contribute in that positive way?” being a nurturer and one
And we say yes, Esther’s in the place of allowing the answer to with life and it is when
flow, but if somebody wasn’t asking the question, there would we feel that our creativ-
be no answer. In other words, the process is someone has to ity flows. The eggs in her
have lived something that makes them ask. hand are representative
of birth, growth and
And part of that stuff that you and others (not so much you, creation.
but what you’re observing in others) want to condemn - that
action, that behavior, that wrong thinking that you would like To see more of Esmeralda
to condemn or eliminate from the planet - that’s that contrast Raven Aponte’s art visit
that is causing the question; that’s that contrast that puts the her on EsmeraldaRavenAponte.etsy.com
eternalness in eternity. That’s a huge contribution! That’s why or facebook.com/EsmeraldaRavenAponte
it’s Leading Edge.

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