How Olives Can Bring You Back To Your Roots
I was at dinner tonight with some friends from
Venezuela. Rosa was telling us about her trip to
Croatia. I had to ask her where Croatia is, as I
am a little rusty on my geography. She said,
“That’s where my family is from. It’s a country
with a population of around four million people at
the crossroads of Central Europe, Southeast Europe
and the Mediterranean. My family lives on a little
island in the Adriatic Sea. When I was very young,
my father moved us to Venezuela. He lived there
with my mother and sister until Venezuela became
too radical and dangerous. That’s when they
returned to their homeland.” Rosa was telling me
that her niece now lives on the island with her
young family and has decided to tend the olive
trees that her great, great grandfather had
planted. “My niece has always been an adventurer,
living outside of the box, and she loves to
commune with nature and the nature spirits.”
I imagine picking olives is a task in itself. It
takes around an hour to pick a bucket of olives.
They say that a skilled olive picker can do way
more than that. I guess she will have to pick up
the pace. With over a hundred olive trees, picking
will be your activity for a good bit of the day.
To make olive oil, there are many steps, and you
have to know when to pick the olives to get the
best tasting oil. They let the olives fall on a
large cloth, and then they take them down to the
sea to wash them, just like they have been doing
for hundreds of years. When they are dry, they are
juiced and pressed into oil. I bet it’s just
delicious.
That kind of lifestyle is uncomplicated but
labor-intensive. My friends asked me what I
thought about that kind of life. I told her that
when I was in my twenties, I moved my family to a
little town in Colorado called Telluride, with a
population of only four hundred. We had no phone
in our home, only three TV stations that we hardly
ever watched, and we were a two-hour drive to the
nearest grocery store. Life was great. I spent
many hours in nature every day. If you
are open to it, you can change patterns that keep
you younger and stronger than people living in big
cities. But what if you are living in a big city
and have to deal with all the noise pollution,
traffic, cell phone chatter, and a very poor air
quality? What can you do to achieve a healthy
mental, physical and spiritual life and be in
alignment with nature and the universe?
You can learn something from a turtle. This is a
good way to quiet your mind and slow things down.
Imagine you can retract your head, arms, and legs
into your core like the turtle does when they go
into their shell. This visualization can instantly
bring you into a meditative state. Next, start
following your breath as it comes in. Imagine a
cooling, white light, calming and relaxing all the
muscles in your body. As you exhale, go into a
deeper place of relaxation, imagining a blue light
coming out of every pore of your body,
You don’t have to do this for a
long time; just five minutes daily is enough to
start a process of clearing out the gunk and
energizing the Qi. You will find that after
practicing for a few weeks, you will want more and
more of this deep cleaning and relaxing work. The
internal exercises of Qi gong will change you from
the inside out.
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I wish you the best in your Health, Wealth, and
Happiness.
Dr. Wu Dhi