7 Simple Steps To Start Communicating with Nature

[Wake Up World]: The natural world is all around us, as soon as you step outside your front door. Even if you live in a busy city, there is life in the cracks on the pavements and the weeds in the wasteland lots.

Communicating with nature is easier than you think, and you don’t need to be in a particularly beautiful or peaceful place to do it.

Most of us find it easier to communicate with wildlife than with plants, streams or trees, but to get started there’s one simple concept to understand – the concept of oneness. Every living thing comes from the same source energy and is at one with every other living thing as we journey back towards source.

Once you understand the interconnectedness of the natural world, it’s not such a stretch to understand that the world around you may have a consciousness of its own – one that you can have a ‘conversation’ of sorts with.

You may be wondering why you might want to communicate with nature. Apart from the obvious – that it’s an enjoyable, uplifting, life-affirming thing to do – you may seek to communicate with nature to benefit your mental health, for example, or to seek answers to questions where you own intuition and higher consciousness could do with a boost....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>....

41% of UK Wildlife Species Have Declined Since 1970, Major Report Finds

[Waking Times]: Brexit may have dominated the headlines in recent weeks, but another crisis is underway in the UK: One in seven of its wildlife species face extinction, and 41 percent have declined since 1970.

Those figures are from the most recent State of Nature report, released Friday. It is the “most detailed report ever” on the state of the UK’s wildlife, according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). It looked at nearly 7,000 species and drew on the expertise of more than 70 organizations, BBC News reported.

The report builds on other alarming findings. A 2018 study found that a fifth of UK mammals could be extinct within 10 years. The last State of Nature report, in 2016, found that the UK was “among the most nature depleted countries in the world,” according to The Guardian.

“We are in the midst of a nature and climate emergency right here at home,” Mark Wright of WWF told The Guardian. “The new [post-Brexit] environment bill must be world-leading with bold legal targets and a strong watchdog that holds the government accountable for halting the losses.”

The major drivers of biodiversity loss are agriculture, the climate crisis, urbanization, pollution, hydrological change, invasive species and woodland management, the report said.

Pesticide use on crops increased 53 percent between 1990 and 2010, and many species are shifting their ranges 20 kilometers (approximately 12 miles) north per decade as temperatures warm, BBC News reported....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...