Return to the Garden

My Journey of Discovery

Written by Jade 1997. This is the choice I made for healing myself.

I knew my true mother would heal me. If I was a child of nature and the garden, all I would need to do would be to return to the garden and be whole. Be. Restore and use all my senses, my intuition and the wisdom I was unaware of but that still lived inside me.

I recognised Earth herself as my mother and the greatest teacher of all. I surrendered my life to her in full faith of her healing abilities. I had heard many times from wise people that nature looks after the creatures who protect her. I asked Earth to guide me in learning to live naturally, healing myself, working for her and in harmony with her.

Earth responded like any loving mother to her children - embracing me with an abundance of nurturing, love and wisdom. She began to talk to me in many ways and teach me everything I needed to know. Earth taught me how to live naturally and in a balanced way. I found healing for my body, emotions, mind and spirit. I lived in increasing acceptance of myself and others around me. I grew and ate food that was natural and nourishing to me in accordance with Earth’s natural laws. My husband Paul and I built our shelter so as to minimise our impact on Earth. A shelter that would suit our lifestyle, that was comfortable, simple and used minimum energy, so that our saved energy could be used gardening. Our shelter also blended with the surrounding environment and enhanced a micro-climate effect.

I was looking at our world with innocent freshness and new hope in each moment, yet remembered my past pain. My experience of dis-ease in my body had brought me wisdom and strength to protect and care for myself, other people and Earth. Paul and I lived in harmony with Earth, with all of Earth’s creatures and with all the rhythms of nature. Paul and Jade had returned to the garden.

We have gone to Dorrigo, October 2005, where we found mother Natures beautiful masterpiece we wished to protect her creation and garden along side her, once again enhancing each other.

If I was able to meet my challenges successfully, the wisdom and maturity that I would gain would be invaluable. I would become a fully integrated, balanced spiritual and physical being, channelling the full creative power of the universe into the physical world. I would re-create life in the garden on earth, more beautiful than ever. We would return to the garden of innocence, love and wonder, but this time with the wisdom of experience and the power to protect it and take care of it for ever.