Picking up emotions from a tree?

[Morrigan_Wolfwind]

Around a week ago, I was sitting in a chair looking at the weeping fig tree next to the computer, and all of a sudden I had this urge to say something to it. I just got this very strong feeling of expectance, like it was urging me to say something, and the more I looked at it, the more I wanted to talk.

So I said, "I always feel better when I look at you."

Then after a moment in which I looked at the tree, I felt a very literal pressing sadness. It felt like someone was firmly pushing my head down (and I was indeed getting forced to slouch painfully) and even though I tried to straighten up, that feeling of sadness and pressure would not leave.

My third eye was also tingling a little. It (the sadness) wasn't really devastating, it was more like that sort of aching sadness that comes after some sort of loss. I nearly started crying, but I kept it in and asked myself aloud, "Why do I feel sad?"

Soon after I asked that, the sadness and pressure lifted. The whole thing only took one or two minutes, but I really have no idea why I felt like that. It certainly wasn't my emotion, nor was my sister or mom in a particularly bad mood that day, so it must have had to come from the tree. We've had the tree for at least three years now, but I have no idea where it came from or what may have happened to it, because it was a gift to my mother from someone at her work.

Has anyone else picked up emotions or sensations from trees? Is that its way of trying to tell me something? I'm a Pisces, so I'm certainly in tune with my emotions; do you think it was trying to tell me about some of its past in a way I'd be most able to understand?

I would ask the tree myself why I felt that way, but I don't even know what I did or how I did it 8O .

[Merrilyn]

I've always felt an INCREDIBLY strong bond with trees, and I have picked up on emotions from them. It's either of great melancholy, like a deep dark pool, or of ancient caring, profound and enduring. I really don't know how else to say it! When I feel it I always hug the tree, or pat its bark and say something nice to it. (My father encouraged this when I was young)
I'm a Pisces as well..Hmm! I wonder if there's something to that!

[Astara Seague]

it happens quite often
the thing is people seldom listen
go out and talk with it if not with your mouth do it with your mind, just go sit under it a totally clear your mind leaving it open only to the tree then ask it what you can do to help, you will be surprised what happens

[Morrigan_Wolfwind]

Hm. Talking to it's going to be quite easy to do, Astara; it's right next to the computer. (It's a potted tree.)

Thanks for both of your help with this. I'm going going to talk to it right now, but I shall keep your advice in mind the next time I talk to the tree.

[Merrilyn]

Ah...perhaps, then, as it is a potted, and presumably indoor tree, it would love to be outside for a while. :)

[jcldragon]

Sometimes when a tree discovers a human sensitive enough to *hear* it, they just get overwhelmed, because it doesn't happen often enough. Then you may feel a torrent of whatever sadness they have, or perhaps a crying for joy.

In this case I get an impression that the tree is becoming root bound, and either needs a much larger pot, or (better yet) a piece of ground all its own.

Listening to Trees
http://www.jamesclairlewis.com/pages/metaphysics/listentotrees.html

[Meadhbh]

Sometimes when a tree discovers a human sensitive enough to *hear* it, they just get overwhelmed, because it doesn't happen often enough. Then you may feel a torrent of whatever sadness they have, or perhaps a crying for joy.

In this case I get an impression that the tree is becoming root bound, and either needs a much larger pot, or (better yet) a piece of ground all its own.

Listening to Trees
http://www.jamesclairlewis.com/pages/metaphysics/listentotrees.html

I think you right. Its like you hadn't spoken to any one, and I mean no one at all for a long time. If some one came up to you and struck up a conversation you would be feeling pretty over whelmed as well. If you keep it up you'll run acriss this often enough.

[Morrigan_Wolfwind]

Hmm. Interesting. I can't exactly take it outside or repot it--its branches would REALLY hinder my vision, and Mom would probably think I'm crazy if I tell her the tree wanted to be outside for a while. But since I have around five/six hours to myself now that summer's here (my twin has summer school and my mom and brother are obviously working), I think I'll try to talk to it more often.

And I'll keep the window open. It can get kind of quiet when you've only got a couple of budgies and various household plants to keep you company.

In fact, I feel kind of bad that it's taken me this long to start talking to it, because I spend almost all my time at the computer, less than two feet away from it. :hahugh:

And jcldragon, thanks for giving me that link. It's really good, and I've put it on my favorites.

[jcldragon]

I have a friend I visit once a week in the next town over. There's an Orange tree at the very edge of a corner lot near there. The Orange tree says it never gets any water, and it's obvious that the house owner never picks the tree's fruit. Right now I'm having some orange juice from that tree, & it is spectacular. As I took the first sip, I could feel the tree vibing at me. It's laughing, because it knows I'm talking about it using the internet... hehehe

[darkmetal]

I haven't picked up any emotions from a tree but maybe I just haven't been listening. I am going to plant a willow tree in my yard in about a week and I plan on naming it in a small ceremony. I am going to see if the tree prefers a certain name or if the one I have picked out for it already is suitable. I've planted two other trees on my property and I will listen to them more closely in the future ! I want to be in tune with my trees!

[Westman Spiralstaff]

I have many times talked with trees and sadly its been too long since I spoke with one. I have felt emotions and a consciousness with trees. I guess I haven't really talked with them because I am worried I am making it up or something that my subconscious is at work. I also don't know what it is I might be speaking to a Dryad or some Tree Spirit, Fae, are they the same thing?

I ask too many questions I suppose and it gets in the way.

[Amythyst]

Yes! I have. And I have never mentioned it to anyone. (I was afraid someone would send men in white coats to cart me away.) You're the first person that I've ever heard admit it and the only person besides me that I ever knew experienced it. I'm so glad I clicked onto this thread.

My youngest sister recently told me that she enjoyed having lunch in the lovely yard behind her office because there was an old, old tree there that she conversed with on a regular basis. It must run in the family.

[Ancient Wisdom]

Sometimes when a tree discovers a human sensitive enough to *hear* it, they just get overwhelmed, because it doesn't happen often enough. Then you may feel a torrent of whatever sadness they have, or perhaps a crying for joy.

In this case I get an impression that the tree is becoming root bound, and either needs a much larger pot, or (better yet) a piece of ground all its own.

Listening to Trees
http://www.jamesclairlewis.com/pages/metaphysics/listentotrees.html

Don't forget The tree contains all five elements,Earth to gain nutrients, Air for photosynthesis (turn CO2 into Oxygen), Water to grow and keep its leaves moist, and Fire (the Sun) which causes the actual reaction of photosynthesis. The fifth element Spirit brings all the other elements together in order for the plant to live and this living being has found a person with such sensitivity as yours! I believe what jcldragon says about it needing a piece of ground of its own, may be true.:)

[Morrigan_Wolfwind]

I appreciate your advice, but since the tree doesn't seem to have grown in the two/three years we've had it (it was probably fully grown when it was given to my mom), I really don't think it needs repotting. Here's a picture of it to prove my point:

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b124/CrossoverQueen/Photos/DSCF4254.jpg

Of course, just because it might not need repotting doesn't mean it doesn't want to. You may have some points after all.

...That sounded a lot more coherent in my head. But then, I watched Garden State an hour ago and I still can't get my thoughts together :D.

[jcldragon]

I appreciate your advice, but since the tree doesn't seem to have grown in the two/three years we've had it (it was probably fully grown when it was given to my mom), I really don't think it needs repotting. Here's a picture of it to prove my point:

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b124/CrossoverQueen/Photos/DSCF4254.jpg

Of course, just because it might not need repotting doesn't mean it doesn't want to. You may have some points after all.

...That sounded a lot more coherent in my head. But then, I watched Garden State an hour ago and I still can't get my thoughts together :D.
That's a little Ficus, and they can do OK indoors, but it does want a larger pot. Yeah, I know a repotting into a very large indoor pot, would be a Major Working. The tree will pretty much settle for some conversation.

Ever notice that tree leaves resemble the shapes of sound waves graphed with polar co-ordinates? That means that the leaves of trees, (and all other plants), are designed for both recieving & sending information as a large array. Trees can actually hear better than animals can see. That's one of the reasons why the Plant World decided to allow animal development on this planet. They were hoping that we would make music. Classical (Eastern & Western), Jazz, & Folk music are their favorites.

[Cindlady2]

This is from a letter I wrote to someone wanting to know how to talk to trees... It may help someone.

"I don't know how much I can help you, all I can do is tell you what works for me. I had been communing with trees and some other plants since I was quite young and allot of it comes naturally.
First of all, as far as I can tell, even the evergreens and pines sleep in winter. What I get form them in winter is kinda' the same sort thing as trying to talk to a person in a deep sleep! I feel life...but damn if I can make any sense out them!

What I do with 'awake' trees is touch my hands on them and close my eyes. I picture the layers inside, the bark, the inner bark, the cambium (sap flow) the wood,the core (pith). I then picture the 'flow' of water and sap, then I try to 'feel' the flow of energy. Feel it coming up through the roots and nice heavy stream through the trunk, picture it running through the branches. Try to feel the life and the 'rhythm' of the energy! You might even want to 'be' the tree. Feel you toes dig into the soil and spread out under you! Feel the water and nutrients flow up you legs and torso, into your arms and figures! Feel the warmth of the sun on your hair (leaves). Get a nice Strong feeling of the life within the tree! Once you get this down it will only take from a few minuets to a few seconds for a tree you visit often.
From here it gets tricky because it's hard to describe.
Once I establish the 'link' with a tree I start to get a sense of conciseness....hummm... an awareness. I try to feel/'see' things as the tree might. But we as humans do perceive things differently so the feelings I receive I interpret into words and images. How this happens... I can't say... it just dose! As the words and images form I am aware of the energy the tree is giving, aware of the 'shifts', and in feeling these shifts I can tell if I'm on the right track or if I must shift my thinking.This is really hard to describe because they can be very subtle or very definite, and it takes practice I suppose...like I said, I've been doing it since I was a kid, and kids are allot easier to train. Think how it's easier for a child to learn a new language, well your trying to learn the language of the tree! Once you can establish a 'language' you can start getting a sense of the history by concentrating on the ring layers. This can be a hit or miss until you get real familiar with a particular tree. Picture and try to make contact with just 1 of the ring layers and try to get images from it. The older the tree the harder this is to pin point or go back to, but it can be done!
I hope this helps, sorry if some of it isn't detailed enough but it's kinda' like trying to describe to someone how to walk! If you have any questions I will try to answer. Until the trees wake up you might want to just try to feel the energy flow in house plants. You may even get some more elaborate contact!
Good luck!
Cindlady"

[jcldragon]

This is from a letter I wrote to someone wanting to know how to talk to trees... It may help someone.

"I don't know how much I can help you, all I can do is tell you what works for me. I had been communing with trees and some other plants since I was quite young and allot of it comes naturally.
First of all, as far as I can tell, even the evergreens and pines sleep in winter. What I get form them in winter is kinda' the same sort thing as trying to talk to a person in a deep sleep! I feel life...but damn if I can make any sense out them!

What I do with 'awake' trees is touch my hands on them and close my eyes. I picture the layers inside, the bark, the inner bark, the cambium (sap flow) the wood,the core (pith). I then picture the 'flow' of water and sap, then I try to 'feel' the flow of energy. Feel it coming up through the roots and nice heavy stream through the trunk, picture it running through the branches. Try to feel the life and the 'rhythm' of the energy! You might even want to 'be' the tree. Feel you toes dig into the soil and spread out under you! Feel the water and nutrients flow up you legs and torso, into your arms and figures! Feel the warmth of the sun on your hair (leaves). Get a nice Strong feeling of the life within the tree! Once you get this down it will only take from a few minuets to a few seconds for a tree you visit often.
From here it gets tricky because it's hard to describe.
Once I establish the 'link' with a tree I start to get a sense of conciseness....hummm... an awareness. I try to feel/'see' things as the tree might. But we as humans do perceive things differently so the feelings I receive I interpret into words and images. How this happens... I can't say... it just dose! As the words and images form I am aware of the energy the tree is giving, aware of the 'shifts', and in feeling these shifts I can tell if I'm on the right track or if I must shift my thinking.This is really hard to describe because they can be very subtle or very definite, and it takes practice I suppose...like I said, I've been doing it since I was a kid, and kids are allot easier to train. Think how it's easier for a child to learn a new language, well your trying to learn the language of the tree! Once you can establish a 'language' you can start getting a sense of the history by concentrating on the ring layers. This can be a hit or miss until you get real familiar with a particular tree. Picture and try to make contact with just 1 of the ring layers and try to get images from it. The older the tree the harder this is to pin point or go back to, but it can be done!
I hope this helps, sorry if some of it isn't detailed enough but it's kinda' like trying to describe to someone how to walk! If you have any questions I will try to answer. Until the trees wake up you might want to just try to feel the energy flow in house plants. You may even get some more elaborate contact!
Good luck!
Cindlady"I don't think it is possible to miss with your approach.

I should point out that the Life in a tree is in its skin, roots, leaves & blossoms. The core is a support structure that the tree grows around. Where a limb has been lost, a tree will grow skin over that spot to ensure that water & rot don't set in. The whole living part of a tree is tactile, (and yes, they do like to be stroked : It's Massage), but the parts of the skin that are in the process of growing over gaps, need to be kept clean of dead bark & such. Stroking & flaking off dead skin in those areas, and also where branches split off, can do the tree a big favor & it really feels good to the tree. Spoiling them rotten this way, helps a tree to flourish.

I've gotten kind of famous for this, and now I can hardly walk down a street without getting requests... hehehe On the "Judgement Day" it will be the Trees who give Testimony concerning us, so I figure I've got that base pretty well covered...

[Windsmith]

My wife is extremely sensitive to communication from trees. Our honeymoon, staying in a treehouse in the middle of a forest, was quite the adventure. She got very very good at shielding.

It's perfectly acceptable - and necessary - to set boundaries. I know she made a deal that went something like, "You guys know I love 'talking' with you, but I can only handle one of you 'talking' at at time. And, please, not while I'm having sex!" :bigredblu

[jcldragon]

My wife is extremely sensitive to communication from trees. Our honeymoon, staying in a treehouse in the middle of a forest, was quite the adventure. She got very very good at shielding.

It's perfectly acceptable - and necessary - to set boundaries. I know she made a deal that went something like, "You guys know I love 'talking' with you, but I can only handle one of you 'talking' at at time. And, please, not while I'm having sex!" :bigredbluSex is a wonderful Gift of Life, (if you're doing it right). The Plant World has a different perspective about sex, from humans. Plants make their Blossoms available to anybody who happens to come along. I'm not sure that would work out as well for humans...

[Windsmith]

Sex is a wonderful Gift of Life, (if you're doing it right). The Plant World has a different perspective about sex, from humans. Plants make their Blossoms available to anybody who happens to come along. I'm not sure that would work out as well for humans...Hey, we don't mind at all that the trees are connecting with us while we're having sex. She just finds it awfully distracting when they try to "talk" to her in the middle of it!

[jcldragon]

Territory is a concept that plants understand, because they have a similar one of their own. Privacy, on the other hand, is a big joke to them, since all plants are natural empaths. We have a phrase, "in the privacy of one's thoughts". A person walking along, thinking things they believe no one will ever know, would be shocked upon discovering that their private thoughts are as apparent to the Plant World, as the Sun in the sky on a cloudless day...

[Cindlady2]

LOL..... I never had them disturb me while having sex.... I must shield OK at those times. hehehe
I know trees really like their space and don't really get the whole 'touchy feely' thing that people do. Yes, they like to be touched and stroked by us, they even like some insects, but they look at it differently. Dang, it's hard to explain 'tree language'.

A real hard time for me is when they 'trim trees' for the power lines. AHHHHHHHH! If they do allot in one area I physically get sick! I understand it has to be done, but the trees don't! And it dose hurt! This last winter they widened the road for miles by our house and took out 3 of our trees including a hickory tree I loved and bonded with! (This is what I wrote at the time... http://www.mysticwicks.com/showthread.php?t=121328&highlight=poor+tree%21 ) I was REAL hard! The poor tree didn't understand why it was being killed.
I'm sorry, getting choked up again....

[jcldragon]

http://www.jamesclairlewis.com/pages/gremlin/thehappygarden.html

The Happy Garden

by James Clair Lewis

Once upon a time there was a happy garden out in the country. The garden was happy, because the old man, and the old lady who lived there with the happy garden, were very happy to tend to all the garden's needs. They gave the garden water, fed the compost pile, and did careful pruning when needed. For these things the happy garden flourished, and gave the old man and the old lady more than plenty of food. The happy garden gave the old man and the old lady, beauty, and happiness. And this was not just for the old man & the old lady, it was also for all of the small creatures who lived nearby. It was a place where birds came just to sing, and this made the garden very happy indeed.

There was a little boy who came to live with the old man and the old lady every Summer. He was their grandson, and the rest of the year, he lived with his parents in the city. The little boy liked the city where he lived most of the time, because that was mostly what he knew, and because his parents lived there, and his parents were rather nice people. BUT, the little boy loved spending Summer with his grandparents out in the country. Here he could breathe clean air, and run about inventing games to play in the woods.

What the little boy never said, but what his grandparents knew, was that the little boy loved working in the happy garden, more than he liked to play. The little boy especially loved the fruit trees... and who wouldn't? There was one who was special to him, and this was an apple tree. It was beside this apple tree, (and sometimes up in its boughs), that the little boy went to read books. These books carried him away to far lands and places that only exist in Imagination. The apple tree enjoyed these stories very much, watching the images flicker across the little boy's mind in the journeys one can only embark upon through books.

Back at home the little boy had some potted plants in his room over by the window. He took rather good care of them for all that he had learned from working in the happy garden in the country, and so most of the time, when the little boy was in school in the city, it was these potted plants who were his own happy garden.

Nothing lasts forever in this world, and one Winter the old man and the old lady finished their happy lives quietly in their sleep. The little boy and his nice parents were greatly saddened by this, but it is something that all mortals must deal with at some point. The little boy's parents couldn't afford to hold onto the grandparent's home, and so they sold it, and the happy garden, to some other people.

These people were not happy people. All that can be said of them, is that they went to Church every Sunday, and spread lots of gossip about the immoral behavior they believed their neighbors were engaged in. They did not tend the happy garden. Moreover, they never figured out why the happy garden stopped being happy. It ceased to flourish, and gradually began to fade away. The fruit trees tried hard to keep the happy garden happy, but what could they do? A lawn had replaced the happy garden, and these unhappy people never even picked the fruit. Instead, they let the fruit fall, and rot. Then, they complained about the mess, and the noise of the birds.

The little boy continued to live in the city, which he liked a lot, but he sorely missed his grandparents, and the happy garden, especially in Summer. He consoled himself by growing many things in containers out on the patio. Here he kept the memory of the happy garden alive in his Heart, and among the plants lucky enough to have him tend them.

Gradually the little boy grew up, and became a man, and made his own way in Life. He became a software designer, and was very good at it. He especially liked this work, because he could do it at home, which left him time to enjoy and care for the plants he always had in pots & containers. He met a very pretty girl, who was also a software designer, and who also loved plants. Seeing that they were a perfect match for each other, they got married, and merged their software businesses.

It was a great success, because they worked very hard at it, and the time came, when they saw that they could afford to raise a family of their own. Since they both worked online, and never had to commute, they decided that they could move out to the country. That is when the young man remembered his old grandparent's place, and the happy garden. He & his wife drove out to the country to see this place he had spoken of every so often. They wanted to see how it was doing now.

What they found was rather disappointing. Neglect had set in, and several of the fruit trees had died. Also, it was much smaller than the young man had remembered it to be. However, his wife was very keen. She spotted a For Sale sign, not only on the property his grandparents had owned, when it was a happy garden, but also on the place next door.

They spoke with the unhappy people, and learned that the unhappy people no longer wanted to live there, but instead to move into an old folks home, where they could finish their days in the company of other unhappy people. The people right next door wanted to move to the city. This was perfect, so the young man and his young wife purchased both properties. They knew there would be a lot of work involved, but once they got the happy garden going again, they would have lots of good organic food to eat, and that would make it all worth it.

They strolled out back, and found the old apple tree that the young man had played in, as a little boy. After all these years, the old apple tree recognized him. The apple tree enveloped the young man, and the young lady, with a wave of love that they both could feel. The young lady, who was not only a software designer, but also a Witch, said, "I can *hear* the tree asking a question. It wants to know if you've read any good books lately."

Her husband smiled, remenbering the good times of his childhood, addressed the tree, saying, "I have come home. We will restore the happy garden here, and on the lot next door. And I promise to make time to spend time with you reading good books again."

The apple tree was overjoyed by this, because it had always held onto hope, and the memory of the old man, and the old lady, who had once lived there, when it was a happy garden. Then the apple tree *spoke* to the lovely young Witch, saying, "Did you know you are carrying twins?"