Holly Worton - If Trees Could Talk: Life Lessons from the Wisdom of the Woods

If Trees Could Talk:

Life Lessons from the Wisdom of the Woods

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ISBN 978-1-911161-25-7 (Mobi)

ISBN 978-1-911161-26-4 (EPUB)

I remember exactly when I first began talking to trees: it was in May 2015. A couple of years prior, I had started getting weekly Akashic Records emails from my friend Vickie Young, and it was one of her messages that sparked a new chapter in my life and ultimately led to the creation of this project. The Akashic Records are an extensive library of energetic records of all souls, including their past, present, and possible future lives. It includes all events, thoughts, words, emotions, and intentions ever to have occurred in these past, present, or possible future lives. Its like an archive of each person throughout all their lifetimes. It is thought that each soul has its own Records, like a set of encyclopedias where each book in the set represents a single lifetime. Its the history and future of you, as a soul.

These Records can be quickly and easily accessed in a variety of different ways. There are plenty of training programs available online, and author Linda Howe shares in her books a simple prayer that she uses to access the Records. Thats how I first learned to access the Akashic Records myself, and its how I continue to do so today.

Even though I know how to access my own Records, I rarely take the time to do it, which is why I greatly value the weekly messages that I get from Vickie. Theyre short and focused, and they often provide a starting point for my journaling and mindset work each week. Ive been getting them on and off since 2013, and theyre a very important part of my personal development work. On this particular week, back in May 2015, I received the following message from Vickie and my Records Keepers:

To be honest, I was a bit skeptical when I read this email. Me? Talk to trees? I dont know how to do that, I thought. But later that week, when I went on my weekly Nature walk, I had the opportunity to give it a try when I got lost in the woods. In fact, I got lost so many times, I turned an 11.6 mile (18.6 km) walk into a 16.7 mile (26.8 km) walk. I was on a route from Milford to Haslemere in Surrey, England, and I was following the directions that I had printed out. I didnt have a map with me, which was not unusual at the time because, at this point in my life, I often went walking without a map. Later, I would go on to do more training in outdoors leadership and navigation, and I became much more careful on my walks: always walking with a paper map and compass for navigation, with the OS Maps app on my phone as a backup.

But back in 2015, I was a bit reckless. I did most of my walking in the lowlands of Surrey, which always felt like a safe environment to wander around in. Unlike in the hills of California where I grew up in Surrey, there were no bears, mountain lions, or rattlesnakes to worry about. It always felt relatively harmless, which had led me to put caution to the side when I went out walking.

Before I got lost for the first time that day, I remembered my weekly message from the Records Keepers, and I stopped to connect with the trees. I walked up to one at random, and I put my hands on its bark. I immediately heard the message: "It's okay." The words sounded clearly in my head, in a calm, male voice. I remembered to focus on my chakras, as the message from my Records Keepers had suggested, and I felt movement in my throat center as the energy shifted. It made sense that my fifth chakra would be activated, as I was focusing on communication with the trees. The fifth energy center, or throat chakra, is the one thats related to communication and expression.

I was confused by the trees message: Its okay. What did that mean? That was all the tree had to say to me, and at that point, I didn't understand what it meant. I assumed that I must have gotten something wrong, and that I was missing another part of the message. After all, I was new to this tree communication thing. I went to another tree, hoping to get more information, but it repeated the same message, albeit in a different male voice. Once again, I felt movement in my throat chakra. It was as though new avenues of communication were stirring within me, yet I couldnt understand what the trees were actually trying to tell me.

Their message wasnt clear (or so I thought), but I resolved to continue on my walk and try again later. I assumed that because I was new at tree communication, I either wasnt getting the full details, or I didnt understand the words I had been given. However, I would soon understand that It's okay was all I needed to hear for me to know exactly what action to take next.

Walking along a dirt trail through a wood, I noticed that it appeared to be a commercial forest. The trail was deeply grooved in places where heavy load vehicles had left their mark, and the woodland was made up of a sea of identical conifers. I dont usually like walking through such places, as they feel strange and unnatural to me, but it was a beautiful day, and I felt light-hearted and joyful as I explored the new route. I continued uphill along the trail, soon coming out of the wood into an open area full of low-growing heather, yellow flowering gorse, and lush green bracken. Consulting my printed directions, I turned left. Unfortunately, I hadnt clearly identified where I was on the page as it compared to where I actually was on the trail, and I turned left where I should have continued on the main path as it curved around to the right, eventually turning left further on.

I happily continued straight down the trail until it closely approached the noisy A3 road and turned right. This is where I realized I was lost. When I attempted to retrace my steps, I got even more lost. I hadnt seen another walker in over an hour, and there was no one around I could ask for directionsor so I thought.