I have trees throughout my neighborhood that function as friends. There, I’ve said it. As I am writing this I am leaning against a huge oak. It’s an old, wise, giving tree in a park within walking distance from my house. I make it my business to visit this tree regularly.
My Good Friend, Oak
I have a feeling that different trees provide us with different medicines just as plants do. In my experience, we don’t even have to create anything from trees to receive their healing benefits. We can just sit with them and have positive shifts in our energy or receive insights.
Baba Rahsan Abdul Hakim, herbalist and Founder of Sundial, once told me “Trees have a healing spirit. You know herbs have a healing spirit. You don’t have to pluck it or pick it for it to work with you.” He explained that many of our ancestors would simply sit with nature to receive healing; but “after we lost the knowledge (through colonization and enslavement) we have to make tea and thing like that, we never had to do that before. That’s just come (recent) business.”
Trees have allowed me to experience this older form of healing. Every time I sit with one, I come away changed.
This oak I’m with always surrounds me with an energy of support long after I leave the park. It reminds me that I can only grow when I nourish and nurture my roots. It helps me be unabashed in my love for nature–even when I am alone, I have no issue walking up to the tree to lean on it or even give it a hug. My friend the oak says that there is a time for everything: from quiet growth to abundant sharing.
As the leaves fall and change color this Autumn, please don’t forget to sit and listen to the wisdom of the trees and plants.
What has nature told you lately?
The Sage Honey 
Ekere, I love your post on Oak and remember to relate to trees on a regularly. I miss the towering oaks of New York but getting to know the scrub and gambel oaks of the southwest. Very astringent medicine..made scrub oak bark into a powder and used it on my face a bit. It may serve as a good tooth powder too. Sat beneath an alligator juniper here; never would have thought to do this previously but it shifted my entire awareness.
This is wonderful. We have allies everywhere. There is medicine everywhere. The possibilities for tapping into Mother Nature’s beauty are endless. I am so glad to hear about how you are living this.
one love,
ekere
I enjoyed your article and do share an appreciation for trees. There are a number of trees in the yard near my window. I often stop to admire them while seated at my desk. They always have visitors; squirrels, birds and insects. Trees have always been a place of peace where I sit to read, write or just enjoy my surroundings. Yes, I have hugged trees. However, I will remember to hug them more frequently.
Greetings. I also love writing and relaxing by trees. There is something deeply centering about being around them. I look forward to hearing about what happens when you embrace more of them.
one love,
ekere
I love all your videos sooo much! Super inspiring!!! And I wanted to share an experience that I had with the infamous apple tree…. We know apple to be common and available as a whole fruit, juice and cider, in pies, sauce and vinegar, etc…. I have allied with apple cider vinegar for issues with my digestion, after suffering for so long with bloating, indigestion, nausea, acid reflux…I am so grateful for being able to take a tsp of it diluted in a 1/4 cup of water to subside all of these issues…Ive also stewed an apple, after coring it, to aide in nausea and diarrhea, as well. BUT one day, I was too sick to get out of bed, to do any of this, and so I decided to connect with the spirit of the apple and meditate on its gorgeous being and abundance. I expressed gratitude and asked for digestive healing as I was feeling so ill. Within a half hour ( as long as it usually takes for the apple cider vinegar to work its magic) my pain and indigestion began to subside. It was such a gift and powerful blessing. I learned that even if you cannot afford to buy the cider or fruit and perhaps don’t have the strength to make it to the tree or make the tea, that the spirit of the plants are always available to us. That connection is so powerful and available for us to appreciate and connect with. It was quite profound! xoxoxo
That last post was from me, jen, from herbal circle, by the way…lol
This is fantastic! Thank you so much for this. At times I have envisioned plants that I feel close with to feel the calming affects of them, but I have never envisioned them for physical healing. What a wonderful teaching. Ashe to you!
love,
ekere
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