Ready to revive your wildness?

Ready to revive your wildness?

When you think of the word ‘Wild’ what images are conjured in your mind? I had a conversation recently about how differently we can perceive words depending on our own experiences with them. At some point in my life I’ve come to associate the word ‘wild’ with wild parties, an idea that does not particularly appeal to me at this point in my life, if indeed it ever did!

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Our tapping video for the week gave me pause to really reflect on the word wild and how I might like to take back my interpretation of it. What if wild actually meant living in alignment with your true nature? What if it was about following your intuition and your instincts? Allowing your truest nature to guide your way? What if I could see it as being more about wild animals and plants and that little twinkle of remaining wildness that still lives within me?

So many of the rules we live by domesticate and tame us. In some ways this helps us to get on with people, it eases our path through social situations and and allows us to function in society. But what if it also removes us from our truth? What if it takes us away from the essence of being a human animal?

Recently I’ve been taking myself off to the beach to swim in the sea. I’ve managed to get there most days and I’ve felt a connection to my wildness, to my animal self, that I’ve rarely had access to before. Being in the sea brings with it an exhilaration, a feeling of joy and connectedness and of being part of nature that I don’t often encounter in other parts of my life and when I’m in this sensation I know this is exactly how it feels to be wild.

As with so many things, it comes back to truth. My wildness is part of my truth. The pull of my truth when it takes me outside could just as easily be called the pull of my wildness. Maybe it could even when it doesn’t take me outside.

For me the part of my truth that I call my wildness is something to do with vibrancy and joy, connection to the natural world and an abandonment of all of the shoulds and musts that keep me trapped in my domestication, my tameness.

Recently I attended a writing workshop. The theme was Orange, not entirely the same as wildness, but the pull of the wild has been so present for me recently that the piece I wrote feels entirely relevant to our wildness theme today. Our prompt was to choose a line from a poem by Wendy Cope entitled ‘The Orange’ and use it to begin our own poem, here’s mine:

I did all the jobs on my list

I’ve never achieved that before

I actually picked up my car keys

And made my way out of the door

I drove myself down to the seafront

And watching the birds dive and spin

I found myself down by the water

Fully clothed and yet diving right in

The cold on my skin was alarming

The salt in my mouth quite a shock

But I’d not change this moment of madness

To return to my self made cell block

If you’d like to do some journalling around this, maybe consider what wildness means to you? Where do you relate to the idea of wildness and where do you feel distant from it? If you could bring more wildness into your life what would that look like? What would it feel like?

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