Mimic Nature

A Few Thoughts For The Holiday Season

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Mimic Nature

The Holiday Season

With the holidays coming up I wanted to use this post to focus on some problems many people face during this time.

First of all, many people suffer during this time of year, some have lost family, some have addictions that make this time of year a mental struggle, and some may have to deal with persecution since they don’t celebrate the same holiday as everyone else. We need to be compassionate towards others so we don’t make this time of year hard on others.

Loneliness is a huge problem in the world, the health risks from loneliness are comparable to the risk factors caused by smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and the risks are worse than obesity and physical inactivity. Contrary to popular belief, not only the elderly suffer from this, loneliness can hit anyone at any age.

There are many people out there who struggle with food or alcohol addictions and this time of year can be really stressful on them as they are inundated with large amounts of food and drink. Also, there are many people who feel offended that you don’t eat or drink with them which compounds the stress even more. If you don’t have an addiction then I am truly happy for you but keep in mind that one slip-up can ruin a month of hard work to those of us who do have addictions.

There are also some people who don’t celebrate Christmas and yet are expected to be involved in Christmas parties at work, school events, programs, and are also expected to reciprocate merry Christmas when someone says it to them.

I’m not asking anyone to deny their personal convictions to celebrate the way they want or say what they want, I am asking that we all be more aware of other people’s differences and their sufferings during this time of year.

Posted in confessions | Tagged be aware of differences, being offended, compassionate towards others, food and drink, holiday season | 1 Comment

Remembering Extinct Species

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Mimic Nature

I wanted to remember some of the extinct species that no longer exist, not to bring up blame for why they are extinct, but to remember their divine expression upon our planet.
“To wantonly destroy a living species is to silence forever a divine voice. Our primary need for the various life forms of the planet is a psychic, rather than a physical, need.’ How important it is to remember those lost voices!”~Thomas Berry

1. The Dodo Bird. The dodo is an extinct flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean. The dodo is a relative of pigeons and doves, it’s weight averaged from 22 to 40 pounds, and stood 3.3 feet tall.

2. Passenger Pigeons. Once the most common birds in North America, the passenger pigeon or wild pigeon became extinct in 1914, when the last known pigeon died at the Cincinnati Zoo.

Since there are so many, I will make a series out of remembering those that are gone.

Posted in permaculture | Tagged Dodo bird, extinct species, Passenger Pigeon, remembrance of those lost | Leave a comment

What is conversion?

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Mimic Nature

True conversion

What does convert mean? Is the way religion uses it the right way to view conversion? Lets take a look at nature to find the answer.

Convert: Cause to Change In Form, Character, or Function

Nature changes all the time, leaves fall and convert to food when they are absorbed into the ground, caterpillars convert to butterflies not only in physical appearance but also in function as they can now pollinate flowers, people convert their waste into a fertilizer, and on and on.

Lets look at conversion in its simple form, causing something or someone to change. Any conversion you make will begin inside your inner being and vibrate out into the physical realm, those who change only on the inside are not fully converted as they have not let what they learned change them.

Anyone can convert to whatever they desire to be, they don’t need anyone else around to witness these changes since what we say and do are already witnessed by everything around us. My negative energy can and does affect animals and plants around me, so the planet and the Universe witnesses our lives, they sense our energy and feel our movements.

Whatever you decide to change in your life or on your land is between you and Nature, not anyone else. All you have to do is focus on what you want to change, figure out the steps needed to change, and then do it.

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Energy and Where It Goes

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Mimic Nature

Stop putting your focus on things you don’t want, focus on what you do want.

No matter what you are doing with your land to make necessary changes for the betterment of nature, you must first focus your attention on what you want. You envision what you want to change, how it will look, and what you will have to do to bring this change into physical form.

What you should not do is focus your attention on what you don’t want, or what is already there that you don’t like, for example there may be weeds there you don’t like, or more personally, you may not like the way you look.

I have come to the realization that many are deceived by focusing their attention on things they shouldn’t. There is a huge difference between blindly believing things are not there, and choosing not to focus your attention on them.

There are ancient writings that tell us that putting our focus on certain things gives them energy, so whenever you go to do anything, be aware of where your attention lies.

I have been making huge life changes recently because I have decided to turn away from things I don’t want to put my attention on. I don’t need to study these areas or even talk about them as it only makes them grow in my life, so I just focus my attention on the positivity of what I want.

This is where true change and growth will happen, since you are focused on the positive you will find more energy, more control, more power to make the changes you want possible. When we focus on the negative, or the negative attributes within us, we give them more power and it makes it harder on us to overcome these areas in our lives since our attention makes them grow.

I am taking back control of my life, as of now, I turn my back on anything negative within me, an ego, or adversary, or any other name that people want to give it and I choose to focus on life and beauty.

Find your strength in life and beauty.

“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.” -Bashar

“See, I have set before you this day, life and beauty and death and adversity. Choose life”~ God

“Turn away from adversity and achieve beauty, seek wholeness and chase after it.” ~Psalm 34:14

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What Do You Hear?

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Mimic Nature

What do the Trees say to you?

As I sit here and watch the birds fly around outside, I wonder what do they hear? What guides them through their day? Is it the simple noises we hear, or is there more?

I’m going to get right to the point because there are some poems I want to add. What do we hear? Can we hear more if we focus on hearing more? Can the planet speak to us and can we hear it? I think we can hear the planet, it’s as simple as having the ears to hear.

I think many of us are so busy and preoccupied with daily living that we have forgotten how to listen to the sweet, soft whisper of nature. We can train ourselves to hear nature again, but we must direct our focus and attention on it.

I wanted to add these poems that I read for the first time today, I want to share the beauty in the soul who wrote them. These are poems from Hermann Hesse’s Bäume: Betrachtungen und Gedichte [Trees: Reflections and Poems]

“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.”

“A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail.”

“When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. . . . Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.”

Posted in permaculture | Tagged hearing nature, laws of nature, listening to the planet, nature, tree growth, trees | Leave a comment

History, Truth Or Fiction?

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Mimic Nature

Depiction of King Arthur

I was watching the History Channel about King Arthur, even though we know these stories as myths, was the attributes and certain events in his life based off of a real person?

We use descriptive writing to make elaborate stories that portray magic, super-human deeds, stunning love stories, and epic adventures, if we can do all of this who is to say that past generations didn’t do the same? What if Hercules was, in reality, a man who was really strong? People heard about this strong man, added to it, and created a man who was born from gods? According to the Smithsonian Channel, this is common in history, people took a great leader and over time, through embellishing stories, turned him into something divine.

If this is true, does it make you wonder how much of history was made up? What will future generations think about us when they examine our writings, our paintings, and our artifacts? Would they think we worship our animals because of how we treat them? Would they think we were a race of super-humans because of the stories we weave?

Nature holds no past and no future, it only lives now, it moves and flows, ever-changing in the present moment. It is not held back by the past, it does not blame and point the finger at those who have hurt it. Maybe we should learn from nature, yes, we can learn from the past, but what good does it do us to hold on to the past when there is the possibility that it could be wrong?

Posted in confessions | Tagged adventure, blog, change, history, King Arthur, stories we make up, was history made up | 1 Comment

What’s In a Name?

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Mimic Nature

What’s in a name?

I was watching a movie the other day that was about demon possession, and one thing I found interesting was the fact that to expel the demon you needed to know its name. It got me to thinking, what is in a name?

In the Bible, Adam had to name the animals, why did he have to do this? Some say that names help us differentiate between things so we can communicate, but what if there is more to this?

Lets use the sentence from the Bible and see what it really says. In Hebrew the word for name is שם (shem), but if you know anything about Hebrew you know they didn’t use vowels, just vowel markers. The letters shin (pronounced sheen) and mem could also be the word sham which is translated place.

I find that interesting, maybe when we use somethings name we put it in its natural place? Hence you would need to know a spirit or demons name to send it back to where it came from, or you would need to know the true name of your addiction to rid yourself of it.

Very interesting to think about.

Posted in spiritual | Tagged demons, possession, putting things in their place, spirits, what's in a name | 2 Comments

Getting To The Core Of The Issue

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Mimic Nature

Here in Ohio our ash trees are dying, apparently a bug is wiping them all out. It’s illegal to transport any type of ash across state lines, apparently no one has told the bugs this and the ash are dying in Michigan and Indiana as well.

I have heard many theories as to why the trees are dying, but what is the core of the problem? Are the bugs natural predators being killed off? Are the trees more sensitive to the chemicals being sprayed on the fields?

This makes me think about ourselves, are we really getting to the core of our issues or are we focused on side effects? I have been overweight my whole life, and I can lose weight for various reasons but will I be completely successful if I don’t uproot the core issue of why I overeat? Will the damage to the planet ever be undone if we don’t find the core of what is causing it in the first place? I don’t like blaming humans, blaming is counter-productive and shouldn’t be done, what we need to do is focus on the cure, how to undo what was done.

I believe that to undo what was done, to the planet and myself, I need to move to a more natural state of being.

Posted in Life lessons | Tagged blog, change, core of the issue, eating problems, nature, overeating | 1 Comment

Your unique path to food

Posted on November 30, 2014 by Mimic Nature

food for thought

One thing I find is that the world of food is vast and confusing, what do I eat, what don’t I eat, how much, what portion, vegan, vegetarian, organic, not organic? I’m sure many of you, like myself, have been inundated with information about what you should and shouldn’t eat, and I’m sure many of you, like me, feel guilty for the way you eat at times. One thing I have found that is detrimental to your success of eating in a balanced way, is to follow what you feel is right for you.

No one can determine your path for you and if you allow others to influence your decisions without your heart being in it, you will set yourself up for failure. I juiced for 90 days, I lost almost 100 pounds, but I began to feel depressed afterward because I was getting tired of ‘fighting’ the temptations that I faced every minute of every day because I felt I couldn’t eat this or shouldn’t eat that. Consequently I put most of the weight back on. I also knew that what I was doing was not what I felt I had to do because when it comes down to it I feel people can eat what they want in the proper proportions and remain the weight they want, or even to lose weight.

Another huge problem I’ve witnessed is stress, so many people worry and obsess about what they eat, this stress is counter-productive to their goals. I totally understand this and struggle with it as well, especially when insurance companies are giving you the ultimatum to lose weight or pay more for your insurance.

My tips are 1. Find your food path. Don’t let anyone influence you to follow a path you don’t want, it’s okay to take advice but in the end it won’t last unless you do what you feel is right for you. 2. Listen to your inner self. It’s vitally important that you listen to what your body is saying to you. If you are suffering in any way because of what you ate, you should probably look into cutting back on that specific food. 3. Make small changes. Don’t feel like you have to make big changes in a short amount of time, any change for the better is good and should be viewed in a positive manner. 4. Don’t stress. Stressing about what you are eating is counter-productive and should be avoided at all costs.

Posted in Food | Tagged balanced eating, eating, food, healthy, life lessons, spiritual | 2 Comments

Inside My Own Black Hole

Posted on November 29, 2014 by Mimic Nature

black hole

There are parts of myself I need to change and I cannot rely on others to change for me. There was a hole deep inside of me that no one could fill but myself, and only when I filled it with the right thing did my life start to take form. Stop looking around out there for respect, love, and happiness when it must start from within, only then will you truly find peace and contentment.