How to help the planet.

[Diana]

Commune personally with plants and animals, this investing in them aware identities.

It is really amazing the difference this makes. And the difference goes both ways. This can be easily seen in plants that you love, and the way they flourish. I have a rattlesnake who lives in my front yard. We (my boyfriend and I) call him Severus (I name a lot of the frequent animal visitors to my property). People generally hate rattlesnakes and kill them whenever possible. I have to be careful in the summertime here in any case, so allowing a rattlesnake to live in the front yard (desert, not grass) isn't stupid as most people think. It's actually smarter because they are territorial and I know he's there (of course, I don't have children or pets). But that's not the point. The point is not separating myself from nature; not hating species; not creating walls; and living in harmony. I did the same thing when I lived at my previous house in dense scorpion territory. All the scorps came to my backyard because everyone around me was spraying poison. I just let them hang out. Occasionally one got in the house and I just took it outside in a glass. It is a way to live in love, not fear. And as I said, I'm not acting stupidly thinking that nothing can hurt me if I love it. I'm trying to dispel human judgments and separation, and accept animals that are so often hated. This is why I feel it goes both ways. These animals receive energetic thoughts all the time from humans, whether or not they understand it.