The spiritual aspect of healing involves tapping into the deeper levels of being where our innate intelligence resides. As we connect to our inner rhythms and greater sense of wholeness, we begin to experience the rhythms, wholeness and interconnectedness around us which eventually expands to include the entire community.

As we learn to heal ourselves, we naturally seek to promote healing around us as all aspects of nature are dependent on each other. Just as we depend on Mother Earth, she also depends on us.

Unlike our constructed places of worship, a garden, park or forest is a “living temple” in every sense of the word. While beauty, power and peace can be found in a place of worship, we cannot compare it with the presence of the Creator that we can experienced in a forest, park or our garden.

Many religions seek to preserve their temples with members offering time, money and energy for their preservation as a sanctuary that is important for their spiritual life. Likewise, it is even more important for us to save these “living temples” such as this forest, park or garden that offers us literally everything a body and soul needed; oxygen, water, beauty and shade; healing, power, upliftment and peace. They offers us the closest of link with beings of the spirit realms; the devas and also the all-encompassing presence of the Great Spirit.

Earth Healing is now a big in-thing. Lots of us are doing it! It’s an enormous issue.

Obviously, water and air. Oceans and atmosphere. Climate and weather. Trees and plants. Bees, endangered animals, disease vectors. Viruses, bacteria, soil, biochemistry. The states of nature, liquids, gases, solids, thermodynamics, ecosystems models.

It takes money to preserve the forest and energy to oversee its protection, our intelligence and awareness to understand the workings of nature. However, our biggest blind spot is that we often forget to include ourselves – as individual humans – as part of “healing earth.” This old-paradigm assumption – that earth is nature, and we are not and that others’ behaviors are to blame, and our own behavior is not even an issue is what got us into trouble in the first place!

When we transcend that duality, we automatically include our individual selves as an equal part of earth healing. And just that new shift in perspective is enough to generate a significant earth healing, in and of itself. Because when there are enough people who have healed themselves, the environment will also mirrors that.

There are 2 books worth buying to read with an open mind.

1. Living pathways by M.Nadarajah

http://arecabooks.com/product/living-pathways-meditations-sustainable-cu...

Keynotes worth re-stating the foreword on the cover.
There are many trajectories of development in Asia. Outside the mainstream there are many marginalized alternative futures.
But it is the development of mega-metropolises with all their glittering facets, that Asia proudly exhibits to the world world with a sense
of triumph and achievement. Asian seem to want to tell the West; we can do it better. In reality, this achievement comes at a tremendous
cost, not only to humans but also to other beings and the environment. Steadily growing, chronic, partly visible and partly unseen, Asia's
colossal crisis of the modern age is one of sustainability, of which a crisis of ecology, a crisis of justice, a crisis of compassion and a crisis
of spirituality are all a part.

This book provides a unique point of view on how spirituality is strongly connected to sustainability in which the cosmologies of the
indigenous communities are nurtured by the triangular relationship of human beings, natural world and spiritual world.

2. Living Landscapes. Connecting Communities
Justine Vaz and Narumol Aphinives

http://arecabooks.com/product/living-landscapes-connected-communities-cu...

This book is about broadening our understanding of people's changing relationship with nature to encompass essential elements of
spirituality, identity, belonging and wellbeing. With all their complexity, each community has something meaningful to convey about
human-environment connection and the common threads linking people across the region.

The point is this :
Our understanding on such topics usually come from Western thinkers and academics hence we test their concepts and methodologies
on our Asian realities.There are few repositories of books and publications from Asian countries hence the young generation will not be
aware of Asian issues and challenges people are working on. Thus it raises questions about who we are, our Asian character and our
active often blind romance with everything Western.