Communicating with Trees

[2-G]

Hey. I saw a post earlier asking if anyone liked to climb or talk to trees. I was wondering, how do you communicate with trees? :whatgives I've wanted to know how to do this for a while, and I have tried previously but failed, and I'd like some advice. Thankyou! :yourock:

[nia]

if you live near a wooded area, then i'd say go far a walk. be relaxed, and friendly, and just let yourself go as you walk, until you find a tree that seems approachable. settle yourslef under its branches, in amongst its roots, and just be. relax, meditate, ground - feel yourself and the tree, and feel the diffrences between you become smaller as you become more at home with the earth and the tree. if it helps, lean yourself aggainst the trunk, or wrap yourself around it - hug the tree and express to it yor desire to meet it, to get to know it, your interet in it as a tree, as you would with a new person you wanted to become friends with.
then listen. not with your ears, as such, but with your magic. with your knowing. with all that you are.
trees are very friendly, on the whole. the likelihood is that you willg et a respnse, and that it will be positive.
when you are ready to leave, thank the tree, and leave it a gift - a drink of water, if you dont live in a very wet area, or a few small quartz crystals buried amongst its roots.
visit your friend as often as you can, taking it a drink, or simply a good natter adn bonding.

trees like company sometimes. no doubt it will be glad to have another friend who cares for it.

[9-2-2]

It's simple, really. Firstly, make sure you don't hate trees. It will show up in your aura. If you dislike trees, then no manner of screaming and hollering is going to get them to talk to you. Secondly, practice telepathy. If you are a natural empath, this helps. If you're walking about amongst older trees (40+ years old), keep your psychic ears open (or your 3rd eye, whatever), and empty your mind. Keep your ears perked for tree babble, but don't rule anything else out... you'll probably want to be able to sense the panic from a driver who's about to hit you or something, lol. Anyway, if a thought enters your mind, and you didn't think it, a tree or animal is probably having a short conversation. More likely to be animals, since they're less intelligent and communicate in short bursts... trees, having been so old, have usually said everything they're wanting to say and have little else to talk about. I know, that sounds weird, but bear with me.
"Feel" around for a tree that seems friendly to you. rofl, yeah, I know, it's the idea of friendly trees and hostile trees, lol... Find a friendly tree, and communicate with it telepathically. If you're not confident in your telepathic ability, it's okay to verbally speak with it while directing your thoughts and emotions at it. Don't BLAST it with emotional energy, just be relaxed. Older trees tend to be more relaxed, more "present", while younger ones will be more talkative, yet a bit erratic. Don't worry about getting grammatically perfect sentences and words... trees don't think like that normally. You will get a sense of what it's saying to you, and with time and practice, your brain will automatically "translate" its intentions for you.

Oh, and one more thing... this doesn't work with dead trees, lol.

[Leighla]

Does this work better in the summer or winter? I have a tree behind my house that I LOVE and have been known to hug. I would like to try communicating with it.

[mucgwyrt]

Spring-Summer. In winter, trees sleep - their leaves fall off and their spirits rest. Some dont - xmas trees, for example - but most do, so as a rule of thumb dont bother trying to communicate with a leafless tree.

nia - fabulous instructions, couldn't have put it better :)

[Ahautenites]

I had a young oak tree for a friend once. Every day on my block, I had to pass it to get to my cousins' house or to school, and I would always lay a hand on the trunk, smile, tell the tree how big it was growing and how beautifull, and I would sort of let the feeling of glad-to-know-you-ness pass through my hand and into the tree trunk.

That was all. There was no hugging and not much in the way of telepathy.

I can tell you, I was TICKED OFF when the city cut some of the lower branches off that tree because they were in the way of power lines. It made the tree look so ugly. And it gave the tree a disease that made it die.