Day Twenty-Six: Honor The Natural Cycles
Our planet is constantly changing and evolving and most of this change is done through specific cycles. These cycles balance, renew, and regulate Earth and its atmosphere, and life on earth is well adapted to these cycles. Animals know when it's time to hibernate as the cycles of the seasons turn Fall into winter. When an animal dies, decomposers like fungi and bacteria break down the animal’s body and release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, where it’s available to plants for photosynthesis.
Earth’s natural cycles are life-sustaining processes in nature that are a constant exchange of elements between air, earth, water, plants and animals. This renewal establishes the ability for all living things to thrive and develop. As amazing as this power of renewal is in nature around us, it is even more fascinating when we realize that it extends to us as well. We have also been gifted with the capacity and inner cycles that allow us to renew both physically and spiritually. A great example is our circadian rhythm, our internal system that regulates feelings of sleepiness and wakefulness over a 24-hour period.
Meditation: Listen to this meditation: Cleanse & Renew Body Scan by Dr. Sara Smith
Activity: Observe and honor nature’s cycles. Find a place in the wild where you can observe and honor some of nature’s cycles. Spend time looking for some of the four main cycles:
Write in your journal the following:
Share: Share a photo of one of the examples you found for one of the four natural cycles in the Facebook group.
Affirmation: Recite the following affirmation out loud: “I am constantly renewing and honor the cycles that allow my complete renewal to happen.”
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Earth’s natural cycles are life-sustaining processes in nature that are a constant exchange of elements between air, earth, water, plants and animals. This renewal establishes the ability for all living things to thrive and develop. As amazing as this power of renewal is in nature around us, it is even more fascinating when we realize that it extends to us as well. We have also been gifted with the capacity and inner cycles that allow us to renew both physically and spiritually. A great example is our circadian rhythm, our internal system that regulates feelings of sleepiness and wakefulness over a 24-hour period.
Meditation: Listen to this meditation: Cleanse & Renew Body Scan by Dr. Sara Smith
Activity: Observe and honor nature’s cycles. Find a place in the wild where you can observe and honor some of nature’s cycles. Spend time looking for some of the four main cycles:
- The nitrogen cycle. Nitrogen is crucial to plant growth. Find a newly sprouted plant or tree sapling and honor the nitrogen cycle that is taking place within it.
- The carbon cycle. Find something that has died and has started to decompose. This can be plant matter like leaves or a fallen tree. Honor the carbon cycle that allows the breakdown of dead material and the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, where it's available to plants for photosynthesis
- Photosynthesis. Find a tree with healthy leaves. Look closely at the leaves and its pores which take in carbon dioxide and when combined with chlorophyll and sunlight create energy for the tree through photosynthesis. Honor the tree and its leaves and the cycle of photosynthesis.
- The water cycle. Look up into the sky and find a cloud. A cloud is condensed water vapor which has been evaporated from a body of water by the sun’s heat. As the cloud becomes denser, the water will fall back out of the cloud as precipitation. Honor the cloud and the water cycle that created it.
Write in your journal the following:
- What cycles happen in your body that are similar to nature?
- What cycles in your life are important to you?
- How does nature’s cycles connect you to the wild?
Share: Share a photo of one of the examples you found for one of the four natural cycles in the Facebook group.
Affirmation: Recite the following affirmation out loud: “I am constantly renewing and honor the cycles that allow my complete renewal to happen.”
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