A Wild Life Is a Present Life. A Present Life Is a Wild Life.

What does it mean when we say we are living a wild life? Rewilding our life?

It means many things to many people.

It is buzzing around.

And that is important—the buzzing.

We have become so disconnected from the natural elements, fibers, textures, and rhythms that we emerged from. So yes, I am glad rewilding is buzzing around.

When we are wild, in the wild, of the wild, a part of that experience is being right there—fully present in the midst of whatever is alive in the woods, in the sky, and beneath the earth.

We are sensing, hearing, seeing, smelling, and touching it all.

When we are immersed in the wild, our senses come alive.

We notice life as it unfolds.

This is also what happens in meditation and mindfulness practice.

What we are fundamentally cultivating is the ability to notice what is arising right now—in our senses and beyond them. We tune into sensations in the body. We tune into the sounds we hear. We tune into what moves through the landscape of the mind.

We notice it all with alive presence.

With curiosity.

Presencing is what we do when we are in the wild.

Wilding is what we do when we meditate.

When we bring them together, we begin to live a wild life—a life of sensing into this very moment to discover what is here, whether we are standing in a forest or washing dishes in our kitchen.

We slow down.

We sense.

We notice.

We welcome.

So, are you wanting to build mindfulness into your life?

Go out into the wild.

Are you wanting to cultivate more wildness in your life?

Sit down and meditate.

Bring them together.

Meditate in the wild.

Walk in the wild.

Stomp around in the wild.

Listen in the wild.

Sit in the wild.

Sit and sit and sit in stillness in the wild and notice the deep aliveness within and without.

Notice the life all around you.

Notice that you are not separate from it.

You and I are deeply embedded within this vast web of nature and consciousness, alive and abounding.