Ep.85 Expanding Your Senses with Natural Perception

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Hello, Hello, everyone! Welcome back to another episode of reconnect with plant wisdom. It’s me, Tigrilla Gardenia.

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I am. I wish there are times where I wish for those of you that are watching on the video that I could turn the video around, because, as I keep saying to you, I have a window right in front of me that leads to this beautiful meadow that then, is a river, and then a small mountain mountainside. It’s very, very beautiful. It’s very inspiring. I love. I love working here because

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I can always look out. And there’s Gary, the silver fur beautiful. I don’t even know how tall Gary is. But Gary is old and tall.

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and today it started to snow. As I’m recording this, we are having our 1st snowfall. The truth of the matter is that yesterday I was just talking about the fact that it rarely snows here anymore. And when it does, it’s just this quick little flurry, and then it’s gone.

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and there was at least nobody had talked to me about any indications of snow. I went out this morning. It was a beautiful day there was this nice sunshine. It was crisp. I should have known it was the crisp, the crisp would have told me that it was going to snow.

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and then I came home and boom a few like. 40 min later it started to snow. So I am sitting here in beautiful snow. It’s a kind of white out, and then Gary is slowly getting covered. The only thing I’m worried about is this tiny little bird that keeps showing up on my balcony, and I’m wondering if the bird doesn’t have the appropriate nest. So I started to try to create something. I don’t know anything about birds.

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I’m going to go inform myself after I finish this recording. But I wanted to come to you today. I’m really excited about this episode because

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this is an episode that I have struggled. I’m going to have a series of them that are sort of all connected to the same topic, because it’s 1 of those topics that

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I’ve been working on for a long time. But I struggle to put into words. As you know, if you’ve been listening to this podcast for a while you know that the words sometimes take a minute because I have to translate the way my my plantness and my interaction with plants

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kind of what I’m being shown. And on one hand, I don’t want to translate it into human words. I want to try to keep it in the experiential, because I feel like a lot of this. A lot of what the plants teach me gets lost in translation.

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On the other hand, of course, I need to bring it to you. This is the reason why, in the naturally conscious community, we have so many different activities.

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why we have our budding artistry and our writing group. And you know our different ways of experiencing our connection to the plant world, using an alternative type of logic because it just doesn’t always come directly. And so in this episode, I really want to explore

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how to expand your senses by connecting with the natural world. So how do we go beyond the the way that our

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our 5 senses have been trained to experience the world into what I am learning, and what I am sharing is a from thanks to the plants

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is a much more expansive, natural way of being, and this was really inspired by a recent Q&A.

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That I had here in Dominhur on the laws of synchronicity. I was talking with one of the professors, and he was sharing with my class, answering their kind of more high level questions, and I realized, as he was talking, that working with plants can really help us. Let go of the conventional logic.

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That most of most of us try to follow, especially when it comes to how we perceive the world

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and embrace a deeper, more intuitive understanding of our senses, because

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I am convinced, and I see this with my clients. I see this in our conversations, that many of the constraints that we have, many of our fears, many of our much, much of our lack of confidence that many people exhibit comes from a disconnection, from an intuitive understanding of yourself, in other words, to feel the world, and to feel the direction, to feel the flow.

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And so, therefore, working with plants, to expand your senses, to understand that plants have many more senses than we, as humans do, really takes us to a new type of confidence, a type of confidence that’s built from an inner knowing and an inner trust.

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So I’m going to explain some fundamental steps that you can do to create a relationship

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with your senses in a different way, kind of parting from this concept of synchronicity also, which has very specific elements. For example, in synchronicity, there’s 3 main things that help you develop a relationship with synchronicity. One is to constantly connect to synchronicity, another is to capture synchronicity quickly, and the 3, rd which is, I think, where plants can help

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so much, so so so much

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is to release your reliance on cause and effect. We tend to look for things via cause and effect, but when you step out of cause and effect, and you realize the synchronicity operates on a different level. Then, again, that intuitive knowing that you have, and that intuitive that understanding of your body from a more sensitive perception of the world makes it much more clear the direction you’re supposed to take.

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And so when you’re working with synchronicity, you don’t link things on cause and effects. Events are linked because they are synchronic events, they happen in the same time. And so this gives a different way of interpreting the world based on your emotional response to something rather than whether or not it logically flows from this than that.

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And here is where plants are excellent mentors at helping you feel experience, perceive we’re going to play with all these different words, what your environment is telling you and how you’re supposed to react

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to it.

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So I know it’s a little cryptic. So let’s just dive into this, and let’s journey together to learn how to perceive the world through the lens of plant wisdom in episode 85. Expanding your senses with natural perception.

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Welcome to reconnect with plant wisdom.

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I’m your host, Tigrilla Gardenia, nature-inspired mentor, certified life coach and the founder of the naturally conscious community.

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For over a decade I’ve been known as a world ambassador for plant advocacy.

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working closely with plants to share their practical wisdom to help you consciously embody the elements of life.

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Nourish your evolution

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in this podcast I delve into ancient and modern knowledge, from biology to spirituality about the wondrous ways of plants.

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Together we’ll explore how ecosystem thinking helps you overcome limiting beliefs, understand the true nature of relationships, and live an authentic, impactful life.

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So in this episode, we’re going to explore how we can expand our senses and our perceptions by connecting in and working with plants, particularly through sort of the application and the connections that plants create and their many, many senses. This is going to help us let go of the conventional human logic that we oftentimes get stuck on, which is more often than not often

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relying on conditioning anyways like I’m expecting this result.

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And when I expect this result, because this is what my cause and effect has taught me, then I don’t see the actual result. I don’t give permission for the result to be to come to me in a different way. I don’t allow for a new way of experiencing, and this is a big thing that happens especially with our senses, so I don’t know how much.

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Actually, if you’ve taken, reconnect with the plant kingdom, you know this really well, but and

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or whatever in reconnect to the plant kingdom. I start off by explaining to you plant senses what are plant senses? How do plant senses work? And, more importantly, how many of them are there, because where we, as human beings, think of ourselves as having 5 main primary senses, plants have those same 5 senses which is one important fact that we’re going to get to in a minute, and then they have about another 15 others that we, as human beings, have been able to identify.

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There is some, some research that states that plants do things and experience things in ways that even we as humans don’t have terminology around or an understanding of. And this implies

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that there may be even more senses that we just are not incapable of seeing or understanding based on the way that we look at the world.

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So we want to think about the fact that there are these main 5 senses that we think we know pretty well right. The sense of sight, the sense of touch, the sense of taste, the sense of sound, and the sense of wait. What am I missing taste? I always feel like I’m missing one, and I never remember taste.

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sight. Oh, and smell! That’s the one I was missing. So these are our main senses, and we think we have a pretty good grip on these. But the truth of the matter is is that we’re perceiving them through a teeny, tiny, tiny, tiny prism of it, like there is so much more to each one of these senses. So by the end of this episode, I want you to feel inspired, to reconnect with nature, and.

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you know, spend time with plants and even other beings of nature, and to observe their interactions and specifically for their sensory experiences. What are the sensory experiences that are leading to and that are giving plants input upon which they can work.

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I also hope that you’re going to feel inspired to be able to expand your own senses, that you’re going to have some practice tuning into your own senses and trusting you know how you can go beyond the conventional limits that your senses have currently been experiencing. Specifically, we’re going to experiment with 2 senses based on what plant behavior is like. And then the 3rd one that I really hope you’re going to walk away with is that you’re going to embrace more fully your own intuition.

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Kind of letting go of the idea that everything has to flow through cause and effect

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and thinking about, how do you trust your intuitive responses to the world around you, fostering a deeper connection with your inner plantness and your natural perceptions, your ability to perceive beyond what you can readily explain and understand. Now I understand that this might lead to other aspects of how do I bring to the world.

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or how do I share my experiences when I can’t put them into a logical turn? But we’ll talk about that later. And this is definitely one of the things that I work with with my clients being all of them as multipotentialites and alternative thinkers. There’s just so many different ways to express what it is that you know, intuitively without.

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I don’t want to say without sounding woo, because I’m a big fan of sounding woo. I like woo and weird, but more of how do I make a logical, constructive, interesting, and even sometimes persuasive discussion and argument on a topic that I am receiving my responses intuitively, and I know that that could be a challenge for some. But trust me, we will get there, and if you really want to get into that in depth

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book, a discovery call with me and we can talk about it because this is a big area that I work with with my clients.

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because by doing, by embracing your intuition, by expanding your senses, you begin to experience a more harmonious and intuitive understanding of your the world that you live in, and can therefore navigate, and even, I don’t want to say manipulate, because that kind of sounds like a bad word, but you know I don’t believe in there is any bad words you can affect, let’s say, affect you can navigate and affect the world in a much more confident way.

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Okay, let’s get into the the heart of this. Let’s talk about the fact of plant logic versus human logic. Okay, so human logic has these chains, these these

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kind of roads. Paths that we follow through human logic is often coming from something that has been forged before us. Now that’s not to say that plants don’t do the same thing. Of course plants do.

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But we’ve talked about this multiple times, how a plant will attempt to go down that route, and then, if that route has any kind of new information, has any kind of obstacle, the plant will then start to experiment where we, as humans, oftentimes, as we talked about before. In a previous episode we go the whole heat beat and treat

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that’s used in material sciences like I’m going to like, use my force to make this. What is it? The square peg fit in the round hole, that kind of stuff? And this is what permeates human logic, plus. We have all of these morals. We have all of these

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different cultural norms. We have all kinds of rules that we have set up for ourselves, for the way we’re supposed to think. And so stepping out of those rules, or even better.

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evaluating those rules for yourself on a regular basis is not something we’re used to doing so. This logic inhibits us from really sensing all of our perceptions. In other words, we are much more focused through that logic on the limitations of our perceptions, rather than on the expansive abilities of our perceptions, and the natural evolution of our senses has then been stifled where we have been reduced

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to only experiencing our senses through the lens of what our minds currently comprehend. Everything that the mind either can’t comprehend

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or might cause discomfort, because it doesn’t have an association in our mind, we have been trained to sort of set aside and ignore. This is the reason why our vision only sees one part of the spectrum. We have evolved to only see that part of the spectrum, because everything else in it would be too much for the way that our body is configured.

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So some of these limitations help us in staying healthier or not, you know, entering into situations of distress. But the truth of the matter is that there’s still limitations. And

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because we’re not taught that we are limited, we are not. This is not an expressed

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situation. This is not something that’s conscious in us. We don’t realize that there are alternative ways for us to experience the world

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where in the plant plants has all of these different senses, and because the environment is constantly changing and plants are constantly evolving. Remember, you can’t run away when you’re sessile, then you can’t. You are constantly assessing which means you are constantly playing with the boundaries of your own senses. So this is 1 1st piece to remember that

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what you are today is not the full expansion of who you are in total, or who you can become. And this is what you’re looking to do by working with plants to expand the boundaries of, let’s just start with even the 5 main senses. Right? How do we start to in

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internalize, connect in to our our own plantness to do like they do like can do and test out the limits of my perception. And these are, I mean, some people would call these paranormal abilities or extrasensory. It doesn’t matter what words you look at him. What’s most important is, that is, for you to play with

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who you truly are by starting with expanding your senses. And again recognizing that the input that you take in is not going to be directly related to cause and effect. And it’s not going to be directly related to anything that you can describe today, because, as you head beyond the

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the perceptions that we as humans, the limitations we have of our senses. What is coming into you

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has to be captured and defined also with a new part with a new vocabulary. This is probably the most difficult piece of all of this releasing our conventional perceptions.

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and how it is that we take in information, and let it be a part of us without having to create an ontology for it right away without having to put it into neat little categories, and how to label it right away. But instead to sit with the feeling and release your own need to put

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a caveat or a feeling or an understanding on it. I know it sounds counterintuitive.

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but we have to remember that our innate ability to perceive the world beyond the conventional limits that we work in

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is again beyond conventional limits, which means it’s beyond understanding. And therefore it’s not going to be like, I’m going to experience this thing, and I’m right away going to understand it instead, it’s going to be. I’m going to start to experience thing. I’m going to not have words to put around it, but I’m going to feel it. And then I’m going to look for ways that this feeling can be digested within me

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to find a level of understanding that transcends the words. I’ve worked with some plants that make me move, and only, and you’ll notice it a lot when I when I speak I move a lot, and and I move because

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I, in my own sort of physical alchemy. My own magic inside movement allows me to distill meaning, and it doesn’t. It takes. And then I have to use my element. My bridge function to bridge it into a human language. It takes me a while. I have to allow myself to fudge. Words, make mistakes, which is not easy, because I’m a bit of a grammar nerd, and I really like getting the words correct.

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But

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I have learned that I have to play with it. I have to pull from multiple languages. I study languages more than anything, because I like to pull concepts that I cannot think of in one language or another. Obscure words trying to bring it in, and it is through the movement of my body that I feel this, so regardless of whether I see something that is beyond the visible

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a spectrum, or I hear something, or I take a smell, and something comes into me, and it all triggers a

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perception.

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I have to distill it through my own body by moving around. When I do meditations, for example, I have to be lying down. I am not a person who can do a sitting meditation. I struggle a lot with a sitting meditation because I don’t feel like I’m getting the full scope of it, but it’s interesting because I do a lying meditation, which is probably one of the only times I’m completely still.

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because if I do a lying down meditation, I’m still, and I can feel that my body is receiving.

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I feel the reception of whatever it is that I’m doing in that meditation, whether it’s guided or it’s just my breath work in the morning, or whether I’m just sitting in quiet contemplation, and when all of that comes in, then I get up and I have to move.

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and I have to move, and the distilling the understanding of it doesn’t come until sometime way later. So if you’ve taken any of my classes, you know that I talk about this all the time. Separate out the receiving of information

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from the processing of that information, and that’s a big lesson that the plants have taught me in recognizing that my senses are expanding and are moving into new realms that don’t have automatic words. And therefore, if I try to take what I’m feeling and perceiving, and immediately put it into words, I lose it

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because I limit it. I it comes very, as a matter of fact, only recently, especially when I’m setting up. And I’m writing out what it is that I want to talk about on the podcast is it that I come to understandings of things that I’ve been working on for months.

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I just pulled out. You know the notebook that I work with in one of my research groups, and I went back to the beginning and I started to read through it. As I was preparing for this podcast, and as I was reading through it, I realized so many of the things that were in there, including lots of drawings.

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lots of doodles, and allowing my mind to just wander random words, and they started to coalesce into an understanding that I can now bring to you. And that’s like 2 years ago that I started this process or 3 or 4, actually, but that I’ve started this process.

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So this is why it’s important to one. Give your body the ability to to teach you your conscious self

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what forms they want to take things in taking into consideration that different personalities of you are going to want also different aspects, and then separating out the idea of how do I receive? Which could be, you know, in so many different ways from how do I process and make sense of this? And recognizing that the processing, making, sensing of it is going to take a very, very long time.

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So I want to explore in particular, right now 2 senses. I just kind of want to maybe give you some practical information, some practical exercises that you can play with.

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to explore and and modify, not modify what you are going to be modifying, but more of expand. The way that you experience a specific, a specific

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sense.

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Specifically, I want to talk about the sense of smell and the sense of vision. And I use these 2 in particular, because I feel like the sense of smell is one of the senses that we, as human beings, have a very limited relationship with our relationship with the sense of smell, is

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mostly based on perfumes and maybe stinky smells. It’s based on that kind of smell, pungent or something. That’s just very like, very in your face type of things. And we don’t realize that we with every breath we take. We’re taking in through the olfactory

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chemicals and components or volatile organic compounds. As we talk about a lot with plants that are in the air. We’re bringing these into our body. And we’re quote unquote, smelling them. And they are reacting into our body in many different ways. Whether that’s

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viruses, whether that’s, you know, other kinds of plant terpenes, all of these different things that come in when I smell when I take a deep breath.

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and we don’t process them, because some of them don’t have that characteristic perfumey smell. But our body is processing them through the olfactory system, where a plant has a much more refined and elaborate and complex in a positive way, olfactory system that is able to smell for communication, for defense, for survival.

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And so these subtle cues have. We’ve been cut off from them.

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And so, working with the sense of smell directly from very

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recognizable smells, like working with something like aromatherapy to non-recognizable smells

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could be a great way for you to start a relationship with a different part of your own body, of your own system. So even just going outside anywhere you go, or even go going near a plant and taking a nice deep breath.

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You are going to expand, and you’re going to be receiving from your sense of smell anytime you take a deep breath. To be honest, you are. But if you start to try to think of yourself as a plant, and the different experiences that a plant might have.

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and you try to put yourself into some of those situations so that you are smelling that. And here I think some plants, for example, might be

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they might be willing participants, even if it means a little bit of them. Loss of I don’t want to say loss of life, but loss of like. For example, let me just be clear, because, if not, you think I’m telling you to go kill a plant. I’m not telling you that. But, for example, we know that the smell of fresh cut grass is a defense mechanism. We know it. We know from a scientific perspective, that when a plant, when a piece of grass, a blade of grass, has been cut.

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what you are smelling is actually a call out to what has happened, so that others know. Oh, look, protect yourself because there is cutting that’s happening in this moment. So if you were to cut a piece of grass, a blade of grass, can’t speak

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blade of grass and smell that.

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and then ask yourself to just let that flow through your body relating to, and what comes into it for you. What does this mean for you? This might be a way for you to experience it. You might experience it in several different ways around another. And when I mean different ways, I mean, you might go and deliberately smell something and just see what reactions you get from it. Another way that I really enjoy doing is sort of

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on the opposite opposite side. I like to just sit

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in a place where I feel good, and just through my breath work when I do my breath work nice, deep breaths, pranic breathing, or any kind of other type of breathing that you might do

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really take in

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and ask, give yourself permission, or direct your intention to take in through the olfactory sense, expanding those limits. You might not know what you’re receiving, but you are. Your body is knowing it. So you’re saying to your olfactory.

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I am present with you. I set the intention that with each of these breaths over the next period of time, whatever the next 10 min.

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every one of these breaths. I want this to be a way for you to signal. Dear, beautiful body! Dear sense of smell! Dear inner plantness!

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Allow me to perceive what is in the air.

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Help me to understand what is there? Give me signs because you have other parts of you. Give me signs that are not necessarily cause and effect, but they might be emotions that come up and and thought processes that jump into your mind that might remind you of something that is important. I’m going to give you an example of this just so that you understand. Many years ago, God, I’ve been telling this story for so long, and every time I tell it it gets

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more profound to me of understanding this

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what was at the very beginning an unconscious process, and that now has become a very conscious process.

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Many, many years ago I was visiting my family in the United States, and every time I would walk out of my mother’s house I would smell mashed potatoes.

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Obviously, every single time I walked out of my house, my mother’s house. Nobody was cooking mashed potatoes, or at least it was impossible to think that every single time, for whatever a few days

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somebody was cooking mashed potatoes. So much likely my mind. Something else was triggering that sense of smell. But I kept smelling mashed potatoes. That was what kept coming into my mind mashed potatoes, and I sat with it for a while, and I would just take this deep breath in, and I would realize, you know, mashed potatoes, and I was like, why am I thinking about mashed potatoes? I don’t, really. I mean, I eat mashed potatoes, but it’s not something I would normally cook.

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So it took me a few days of like just allowing myself to sit in this mashed potato smell to allow this olfactory sense

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to trigger something.

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and it finally hit me. It just hit me. It was mashed. Potatoes in my family means thanksgiving

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and thanksgiving is one of the rare times at that period where my entire family would gather.

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And so the message that became super clear was that I needed to gather my family. I needed. We, as a family unit, needed to all come together, and we needed to have a moment and experience

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that space for us to be as a family which you know, was not the easiest of things to do. But the point was that my sense of olfactory, my sense of smell.

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whether it was some other smell that was triggering it, or whether it was something within me that was triggering that sense of smell. Honestly, I don’t care, because the message was very clear after I gave myself permission to just sit with it, and when I gathered my family it was amazing. It was exactly what we needed in that particular moment.

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So that’s 1 of those types of places. Another thing that another example of that has been other moments where I know I have smelled

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danger, or I have smelled a specific type of situation. And yet

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I don’t. There’s not like any perfume to it, but I I can feel it in my body, and I know that that’s the path that it took to get there. I know that there was a very specific message for some kind of danger. For example, going into an area and and instinctively knowing Nope, I am, I have to turn around and get out of this area because there is danger here, and knowing that that’s coming from, I’m smelling something, or maybe someone or some

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who knows, but trusting that with each like feeling the need to take a deeper breath, even though no perfume was coming in, no stink was coming in. There was nothing of that sense, but instinctively I felt the need to take that nice deep breath.

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Let that deep breath sort of come into me and then boom! The message was, Get out!

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I’m out! I’m gone. So, working with the sense of smell, you end up having an entirely different

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reaction and interaction with what is coming to you, and it gives also your body the ability to share with you, hey? I’m getting it from there. So please take those nice deep breaths. In this moment I need that you might not even know what you’re doing. But trust me that something is coming in, and that it’s really important for it to come in through that channel, so allow that channel to come in

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another sense, that we often.

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oh, so often, rely on too much, so kind of the opposite of the sense of smell is the sense of vision.

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So vision for human beings is our preferred sense. We use vision more than anything else. We rely on vision. If I can see it.

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It’s true, or it’s happening. Which is why a lot of the world of deep fakes right now is so problematic because human beings need to reawaken their other senses. Our other senses, if we’re going to make it through the ability to understand when we are being tricked, when we are being lied to.

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We are going to have to start to rely on our other senses, because where vision might, because of our limited vision, and because of the way our vision is so conditioned to see images in a certain way, colors and standards, so much of our moral compass comes around vision. If a person is clean versus dirty. If the hair is in a certain way, if they’re older, if they’re young, all of this comes from vision.

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and so our vision is extremely compromised. Our vision gives us contradictory information to what is the actual fact? Because there is not often we have not developed a relationship between vision and our other senses.

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We have not allowed ourselves the ability to experience the world through an interdisciplinary reaction or intersensory reaction. That’s the word I was looking for. That gives us the opportunity to then

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perceive, rather than relying on, only one sense, such as a sense of vision, but on multiple senses. This is the reason why we also struggle with seeing intelligence or consciousness in other beings, because we rely a lot on what we see from them, and especially what they see. So, for example, even in other beings like dogs.

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the dog’s primary sense is a sense of smell, not the sense of vision, so we cannot rely on a dog seeing things. We have to give the dog the ability to smell those things where we are. On the other side we put all of our energy into being able to see.

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when we start to work with plants for vision in particular, we we start to recognize that plants have photoreceptors all over, because what do they do? They photosynthesize right? They have to be able to take in this light.

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So taking in this light means that plants are constantly receiving from multiple light waves, and they have a attunement where they can recognize the different light waves in different perspectives with different meanings.

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So tapping into plants for this. And I have a actually, now that I think about it, I have a series of meditations that you should check out on insight timer. If you’re in the naturally conscious community, they are a part of reconnect with the plant kingdom as well as flourishing sprouts.

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These particular meditations are there, and they’re meditations to expand your senses with plants.

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and especially for vision. The idea of stepping into the plant’s experience or asking the plant to share with you their experience of how they perceive light and color which is so different from humans.

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helps sometimes to kind of shock us into an understanding that our visionary grid, what we see in front of us is really only a small spectrum of what actually is in front of us. The full light spectrum would present so much more than that.

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And so plants are really a great way for you to start to get comfortable in a safe sort of way to get comfortable with receiving additional information through the vision. Because the problem with the vision is that

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once you start to see the world in this expansive way. You have to also simultaneously train yourself to be able to to a certain extent shut it on and off, because if it’s always on, sometimes it becomes sensory overload. And this really is the same for all your senses as you go expanding your senses.

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there will be times that you want to attenuate them and bring them down a little bit and kind of narrow the field, so that your experiences don’t kind of overload your overall sensory body and your subtle body especially so part of this process is about going

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slow, asking the plants to teach you one piece at a time, and remembering that this isn’t about knowing, with your thought, with your mind and your words. But this is about starting to explore what knowing feels like in your body, because what you want to do is

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have all of this sensory input come in whatever way that it wants to come in, and then whomever of your body needs to process it in that moment has the tools to process and give you a nudge, a response, an intuitive feel, an actual answer like mine with the mashed potatoes going to gather my family like it might come through that it might come through an image. It might come through a drawing. It might come through a dance.

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But some you’re going to have input

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mechanisms, which is what we’re talking about relating to your senses. You’re going to have processing sense processing mechanisms inside of your body that allow you to distill.

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And then you’re going to have output which allows you to

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get the meaning from it. And each one of these steps is a different step, and especially the top. The 1st one and the last one are the most important.

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being able to receive, and being able to then process it in order for it to have its own meaning. And so you want to let you want to work long term with this I keep saying that this is a slow burn, right? All of this type of evolution is about slowly shifting and moving and growing and expanding through it. This is the reason why I love working with my clients

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long term, and we have the combination of one-on-one work as well as the naturally conscious community. Because when you work with me, we’re always working on these things. We’re constantly looking at it through different lens. We are bringing it in activating it

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and then settling it in and integrating it into your daily life, because if you do it too fast you might have a beautiful experience, and I’m sure lots of us have beautiful experiences, but after that experience you can’t call it up again. And, more importantly, which is where we really want to work closely with the plants

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and our plant collaborators is the idea of. I want this to become something conscious within me, something that I can activate, turn on and turn off when necessary. I don’t want it to be something upon me. If you watch television shows and you have people who have the gift of sight, and they might be in the middle of something, and then they get a vision, and then they fall to the ground from the power of that vision. I don’t want that sorry, no offense to anybody. I don’t want that.

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I want something that is an integrative part of me that nourishes my life, that I can receive

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and turn on. I can also put it on hold and be like, Hey, I’m in the middle of this thing. Is it important? It’s important. Okay, hold on. Let me prepare my body. I want my body to be a safe vessel for it, and I want to be able to use it in a way that enhances my life rather than it be detrimental with me. And this is why I love working with plants, because the ecosystem model

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the ability for me to think of myself as an ecosystem, but also everything around me as an ecosystem, and the fact that consciousness is an important aspect of this journey is something really powerful that not many others are talking about. I want you to master your talents. I want you to master your senses. I want you to master your perceptions.

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I want you to master your passions so that you can consciously choose the life that you want to live, and how it is that you want to work with them.

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because by expanding our senses with natural perception, we open ourselves up to a deeper understanding of the world and our place within it. What am I here to do? What is the journey that my soul is taking? And how does this life fit into it, and how do I give and share and use my gifts to accomplish my life? Purpose?

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Working with plants really teaches us to let go of the conventional logic that is holding our senses in place, and to embrace intuition, to give it a form, a shape, an understanding within you, and reconnect to the true

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breath of all of your senses, and as we cultivate this relationship with the natural world, we gain a clarity on the path and on our purpose, and on finding harmony and flow, because again, that synchronic flow when I’m in it.

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I am in it. I know how to move with it.

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So I’m curious? How have you connected with nature to expand your senses? What have you tried? Has it worked? Has it not worked? And what experience have you had that helped you feel more in tune with your own natural perception. Do you have any stories of synchronicity, or a very direct plant wisdom that have transformed your understanding of the world.

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This is the kind of things that I want to hear about. I want to hear what you think about this episode and what we’ve been talking about, and I’d love to hear your stories and experiences.

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So leave me a comment and share how you expanded your senses, or how you’re working on it, or how you would like to work on it through connecting with nature and specifically working with plant partners. And if you’re looking for a place to deep dive. Into these types of experiences

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come join the naturally conscious community. We’re the only ecosystem that’s been created exclusively to nourish these types of human plant relationships, and to co-evolve into the most expanded versions of who each one of us can be. So

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remember also to like comment and share this, you know what we’ve just here and and subscribe, no matter where you are, subscribe, because your shares really help this podcast reach

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others who are looking to explore. You know their plant relationships, who maybe don’t feel comfortable in the current environment that they’re in to have these types of conversations, or who might not know that that whisper that they’ve been hearing is coming from their plants friends. So let’s really grow this community together.

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That’s it. For this episode. I hope you enjoyed it. I want to hear. I want to hear your thoughts and remember, resist the urge to hold back your emerging green brilliance. If you need any support to do it.

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I’m here for you.

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connect with like-minded individuals collaborating with plants to integrate these insights into life. Intro and outro music by Steve Sciulli and poinsettia from the singing Life of plants. That’s it for me, Tigrilla Gardenia and my plant collaborators until next time. Remember, resist the urge to hold back your emerging green brilliance. I’m out bye.