I invite you to come hold my hand and let us go on a journey into space (by closing the eyes and visualising). At some point in our journey let us turn back and look at the planet earth. We would see an amazingly beautiful image of a spherical object spinning and going around the sun, surrounded by a shield of atmosphere.
Now let me take a detour and ask a question here. Did you know that our physical body consists of billions of other organisms living within? Micro organisms such as bacteria, virus, fungus, parasites, etc, most of which is necessary for our physical survival. Some of these organisms are harmful for our comfortable health and wellbeing but this doesn’t mean that they are unnecessary. All the billions of living organisms living on our skin and within our body contribute to our existence in some way or other, even the harmful ones.
Now come back to our space journey and looking back at earth. Can you see that this planet earth you see is actually one single living entity and all the living beings populating it are just similar to all the micro organisms populating our physical body? Well here too some of the living organisms are useful for the survival of the earth and some are harmful for its wellbeing.
I am certain that trees are the good ones but the debate is still on to conclude on which side the humans fall. But from here in outer space when I look down and see, humans seem too minuscule and transitory in the billions of years of the life of planet earth. Humans are a work in process and eventually they will come to a place of acceptance of the whole ecosystem as one single living organism with humans as just a tiny part of it.
However as consciousness that can perceive itself, humans are unique in the entire universe because the universe chose to be able to look and see itself only through humans. Let us go within this consciousness and discover the amazing nature of our existence through an inward journey called Awareness Journey. Instead of spending all our time on the physical world around us.
For more information and plenty of free resources to aid with this journey of awareness and the practice of meditation and deep healing, please visit my website.https://awarenessjourney.org/