Breaking False Belief Patterns - Lesson from a Hummingbird




I had an amazing experience with a hummingbird that taught me an important lesson. We are one with nature and we can have a relationship with it; but we have been programed to believe we are separate from nature.

A couple weeks ago, I was sitting in my living room enjoying a latte while writing in my journal. It was a beautiful, softly-breezy, and cool sunny morning and the fresh air was so captivating I opened my front door to let in the life force and the crisp, dreamy smells of nature drifting in and filling my senses.

I don’t have a screen on the front door but I didn’t care as I needed the freshness beckoning my senses and soul. As I sat in my quiet bliss I heard the sound of something akin to a “vroom” race through my living room toward the large nine-foot window across the room. As I gazed up, I saw a green and yellow hummingbird frantically darting up and down at my window. This sweet little bird of joy found his way into my home and was now in a panic, fluttering at the window trying to gain his freedom. He was frantic and flying up and down, up and down, up and down at the center window.

The window has three parts to it; a five-foot stationary pane and two, two-foot windows that open and flank the central, stationary window. I knew I needed to help this little guy and so I immediately went to the right window, opened it and removed the screen. I thought he would find his way over to it but he didn’t. Instead he continued to frantically fly up and down along the stationary window. I considered grabbing the broom to coax him over to the open window just a few feet away, but I feared he would fly elsewhere in the house and really be trapped.

Then, I thought maybe I could catch him and set him free. I raised my open hands up to gently catch him. With all good intention, I reached up with hands together and cupped open in hopes he would land. He did touch down on my hands and then instantly flew up again in his frantic desperation.

I then paused, took a deep breath and went inward. I got really, really calm and peaceful. Through my mind and my heart, I spoke to him. I said, “It’s okay sweet one. I am going to help you.” Without another thought, I intuitively and slowly extended my left index finger out and placed it on the window pane. At this point, he had begun to tire and so he was down at the window pane still fluttering up and down, but coming to touch down on the pane momentarily now and then. He hopped over to my finger and got on, wrapping his little feet around my finger. What is interesting is the instant I placed my finger out and he hopped over to me, I felt a fear rise up in me. I was shocked by this fear that said, “don’t touch it, it carries disease.” There it was – the program. Don’t touch nature, the animals, the birds, the squirrels, etc., because we are separate from them and something will happen to you. We just don’t do that. I sent the belief of old away and carried on.

He sat on my finger quietly and still. I raised my hand up to my face so that I could get a good look at his absolute innocent sweetness. He stared back at me and we simply enjoyed our special moment together. We were connected and relating to one another. It felt wonderful! I then walked over to the open window on my right and extended my finger out into the morning air and in an instant, he took flight and was gone.

I will remember this moment and tell this story as long as I live because it has greatly impacted my thinking and awareness of belief patterns. Our tribal consciousness tells us we cannot touch nature, we cannot commune with nature directly and I am here to say, we absolutely can and do have a connection to nature. We have the ability to commune and communicate with nature because we are part of nature. There is no separation between us. The difference is, I had the courage to break through a mental program that told me I could not or should not do what I did. I have had several special moments with nature since then. Why?  Because I rose above the limiting belief and said yes to an expanded understanding of our true relationship with the all there is.






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