Tree Connection

Thanks, Noa.

      Yeah,,tree hugging goes way back...It is a form of chi kung for cleansing the body. One faces the tree and ,while breathing accordingly, expels dirty energy,usually using the arms, circling themoutward away from the body on the exhale,,,,,then inhaling and gathering up from the earth....The tree is happy to take itin, send it down into the ground to be cleansed, expelling it through the roots, then it rises back up to the surface. A circulation between the tree and practitioner is established, a relationship. Ihave seen quite a few of old timers who do this daily and have an established thing with a certain tree. I saw quite a few in san fran at golden gate park,and I see some here in china.

Back in the U.S. I had a tree in my yard that had been almost killed by lightning,,,right by my driveway. I did my taiji under that tree for almost 15 years and it morphed back into a huge elm tree, so big that the power company came in and tried to hack it up,,luckily I happened to come home from work that day and stopped them. It wasn't near the street,only my single line coming into the house so I was able to run them off and trim it myself.

In new orleans there is a tree I have been going  to for 20 years. It feels so good whenever I return there, I always sit against it for at least an hour after practicing. so I have never consciously asked a tree for information, but the network makes sense,,as in avatar the movie. Cool post