Three Breaths With a Tree
A gentle practice for when you need to remember you’re not alone
Try This to Remember You Are Not Alone
You don’t need to go far. You don’t need hours. You don’t even need to know what you’re doing.
Find a tree. Any tree works, the one outside your door, the one you pass every day, the one at the park, or on your street corner.
Stand close enough to feel its presence. You don’t have to touch it, though you can. Just be near enough that you’re sharing space.
Then take three breaths together.
First breath: Notice the tree. Its bark, its branches, how it holds the sky.
Second breath: Notice yourself. Your feet on the ground. Your own roots, however temporary.
Third breath: Notice what’s between you. The air you’re both breathing. The quiet kinship that’s always been there.
That’s it. Three breaths. One moment of not being alone.
The more-than-human world is here, waiting. Sometimes all it takes is slowing down long enough to say hello.
When did you last pause with a tree?
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