October 2007 Ellae Elinwood
Earth's Gift
The following is an excerpt from "We Are Her Voice, Women Healing With Earth: Remembrances of Connection". Written by Ellae Elinwood, Mary Lanier, and Katie Lanier.
Earth is female and as a woman, you are one with her. Here lays a simple truth, so profound, that grasping the ramifications will change your understanding of yourself and your relationship to life forever. Through connecting with Earth’s pulse and her infinite capacity for renewal, you will have life long tools for youthful looks, health, and vitality.
Earth is a ravishing beauty and an instinctive intelligence that amazes all who her study her. We are surrounded by a continuity of inspiration and vitality in an astonishing array of animals, birds, mountains, trees, flowers, weather, virus and bacteria, an endless list.
Life, microscopic to enormous, burgeons unrestrained while simultaneously held in consistent, uncompromising and breathtaking reciprocity. And in the midst of this balance, nature reproduces herself. Earth masterfully displays a flawless ability to adapt, renew, sustain, endure, and expand her exquisite nature. This process occurs uninterrupted with a brilliance that can only be ascribed to vast intelligence. It is this we turn to, in absolute confidence, seeking and always finding our inspiration.
What are the gifts that you give?
Understanding Earth’s style of gifting rearranges our understanding of ‘gift,’ as Earth’s gifts are given with no reason, requirement, or strings attached. The Earth’s gift is something given because it is an instinctive extension of her nature. You also give gifts, a natural extension of your unique nature.
What are the gifts that you give? What are the qualities you have that become a gift to others? With you generating no attempt to be a better person or a higher spiritual being, but just by you being natural.
What are your natural traits that are gifts to others? Contemplate your own wonderful, life-giving gifts, akin with Earth’s, that are instinctive to your nature. Giving these gifts is not laborious or draining, but instead, the gifting fills you with a sense of purpose and connection to life. Your gifting evolves an inner appreciation of your own distinctive and worthwhile qualities. In order to hone in on your natural gifts, ask others to reflect back to you the gifts that you have given them by just being yourself. Or think of a moment in time when you effortlessly exuded adaptability, expansion, or another quality that was appropriate to the moment, and came naturally.
Your gifts are the same as Earth’s and also made unique by your person.
Earth’s gifts are:
- Reproduction
- Renewal
- Adaptability
- Sustainability
- Endurance
- Resiliency
- Expansion
- Spiritual renewal
- Instinctive wisdom
(Source: Gregge Tiffen G Systems International)
Gaining these Gifts
These are aspects of her nature and the nature of women. We gain these gifts because Earth vitality fills the cells of or bodies, and is imbued with Earth consciousness. When we are close to Earth we strengthen each one of these qualities in ourselves.
Each woman has these qualities and can willingly express them. We have the right to choose how we communicate them according to our personal values, ethics, and personalities. For instance, one woman may direct the energy of her reproductive gift to bear children, and another may use this energy to generate a new business. Others may decide to use this energy to help a friend in need, to revitalize to an old garden, to comfort a stray dog, or to feed people a great meal. All of these are aspects of reproduction.
Look Within
Look within and identify how you have personalized these most feminine attributes for yourself. These are the intrinsic elements of creation and thriving. Take some valuable time to recognize that these qualities rise from within you. You have and use them constantly, because they are as much a part of your nature as they are a part of the Earth’s.
These gifts are yours and you naturally embody them. They carry your femininity, health, and slow aging. You have the absolute right to express and strengthen these characteristics. In this way, allow them to embolden your essential female nature.
Ellae Elinwood is a student and teacher of the unity of the body, mind and spirit; and an author of 5 books on the subject. Mary Lanier is currently a healer and writer and was a psychotherapist for 25 years. Katie Lanier is currently studying for her Masters Degree and is an author and screenwriter. For more information about their book visit, www.wearehervoice.com.