Humans are wired for deep communication and connection with plants and the earth. However, for many of us, this skill is a little bit dormant or wasn’t nurtured when we were growing up. Let’s explore one simple method for how to communicate with plants and trees.

Thousands of students in my Plant Wisdom Online Course have had success with this technique, and you can use it to open communication with plants in your garden or anywhere around you.

For some people, communication with the plants can seem elusive and or it might be called “weird” or “crazy” or “out there.” We’ll also address some obstacles that many of us must work through to be able to talk to plants and really connect with the earth.

 

What You Need for Plant Communication

Two things go into this simple technique for communicating with plants: your hands and sound.

Your Hands

Just take a minute and look at your hands. Our hands are powerful receptor sites full of energy. We interpret the world by our ability to perceive impulses through our nerve endings. It’s like when somebody touches you, it can completely change your disposition.

Sometimes we forget about our ability to perceive and transmit through our hands. When people talk about “healing hands,” you might think, “Well, I’m not a healer.” However, there’s so much that you can do with your hands even if you haven’t been trained.

Sound

Sound carries frequencies of all kinds of emotion. That’s why the way somebody talks to you is so much more important than what they say. It’s how they say it. Our sound carries our messages and love. The earth and the plants perceive those feelings.

Many cultures and traditions sing to their seeds. I didn’t grow up in a culture that sang to our plants when we harvested or planted them. That would have been considered weird. But once we recognize that the earth is alive and perceives the energetic frequency of our voice and feelings, then it becomes a doorway.

We’re going to put those two things together, but first let’s talk about obstacles…

 

hand with calendula

Obstacles to Communicating with the Earth

If this is new to you, what I’m going to say is just fake it ‘til you make it and begin feeling the communication of the plants. It’s in all of us to be able to do this, but maybe it’s a little bit dormant or wasn’t nurtured when you were growing up. Most of us got more attention when we said our ABCs than when we were getting downloads from plants when we were two years old.

I’ve been teaching and working with this for 30 years and have helped thousands of people reactivate this capacity, but the feelings that come up are that this is weird. This is kooky, out there, hippie, fill in the blank. What have you been called? My students have been called these names for the past 30 years.

One of the reasons why we’re in so much trouble with the earth is because we’ve invalidated this innate human capacity. When it gets invalidated enough, then it shuts down. We start to not trust it and then we don’t know if it’s our head or the earth or who’s talking. The doorway gets shut.

There’s so much cultural invalidation for being deeply connected to the earth. We have to go to bat with being shamed or put down. How do you feel when somebody hears you speaking out loud to your plants? That can be a big obstacle.

 

hand on plants

A Simple Technique for Connecting with Plants

Now, here’s the technique for communicating with plants. When you go to plant, you want to first ask, “May I be in your presence? May I work with you? May I be here with you?” It’s polite to ask before you step into somebody’s aura.

Then put your hands on the ground around the plant. Take some time and slow your frequency down. Put your hands on the ground and just breathe for a minute — three breaths, ten breaths, however long it takes to clear the chatter in your mind. Close your eyes and just be there on that piece of the earth.

Plants don’t cruise around. They stay in one spot. Put your hands on that spot of the earth and see how that it feels. After you feel like you’ve let go of some of your to do list and your chatter, then here is what you do…

Let any sound out that comes.

bird singing

I know, it might feel strange. This is something that people all over the world do, but in the culture that I was raised in, plants were considered inanimate objects and you don’t communicate with them. In reality, plants have feelings and they feel your feelings.

So, you wait, you breathe, you calm yourself down and then you just let out the simplest melody or rhyme. It could be something like, “I’m so happy to have you here.”

In the video above, I share a very simple melody that I sing to new plants that come into my garden. This is a kindergarten song, and I’m not a very good singer, but it helps to transmit how I feel. The plants feel that, and they feel welcome.

hands on earth

I put my hands on the ground. I take some time to let go and feel into this spot on the earth that the plant is going to be in and sing my simple song:

Welcome to my garden
Welcome to my garden
Welcome to my garden

How simple is that? I just sing that over and over until I feel relaxed, and I can really feel it in my heart that I’m saying “welcome” to this plant.

This isn’t just about planting a garden. You can do this with any plant that’s in the ground or with a tree. Again, you don’t have to be a singer. It’s just getting to that place in your heart and singing a little, “I’m so happy to see you” or “Your flowers are beautiful” or “I can’t wait ‘til you grow, and I can eat you for a salad.”

When you let your voice sing even just a kindergarten song, eventually it opens a pathway where the plants go, “Hmm. She’s listening. I think there’s something going on here.” The earth responds to what we do and give. When we walk out our door, the plants know our rhythm. They’re aware of us. This one simple technique takes just a few minutes and helps us humans to be more aware.

 

hands with sunflower

Standing Up for Our Relationship with the Earth

We have to go to bat with the cultural premise that communicating with plants and the earth is something “out there.” It’s actually a very grounded and innate thing that humans do, but it wasn’t nurtured when we were little. We need to reawaken what’s already there.

Remember the two things that go into this: your hands and sound. Also, just notice, culturally, the impact of the shaming, belittling, and name-calling. Name-calling like “woo-woo” and “kooky” is a form of bullying. Let’s stand up for ourselves and not be bullied out of our relationship with the earth.

I would love to hear from you! What plant would you like open the doors of communication with? Have you experienced any obstacles in deepening your connection to the earth? Please share in the comments below. 

How to Communicate with Plants

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