Relax, empty your mind, let go ... and you will hear them.
My first experience with hearing the chatter of trees was late at night in the woods. I had just learned to meditate the Buddhist way. I went into the woods and sat in a triangle between three trees and went into a deep meditation. The moon was full and the trees were there and they were alive with mental activity !
I was at first a bit alarmed as I'd never heard trees speaking in my mind's eye. But traveling to this parallel universe also made me so giddy and happy to have found such an arcane expression in a mundane world. It took me a while but I grew to embrace the truth that trees are as intelligent as human beings and other mammals with lives, relationships, and emotions. We breath in what they breath out and they breath in what we breath out. So the animal-plant relationship is a symbiotic and crucial one. Trees do talk but not talk that we're accustomed to. They telepath.
The first time a tree spoke to me directly was on my own property. I have a white pine tree here that is old and taller than any tree in my suburban neighborhood. The home I live in was also my childhood home and the tree was there all throughout my childhood, through me raising my own children, and now I'm still here in my late 50s with grandchildren coming back to visit.
The tree hugger that I am, I went over to the big white pine that I call Peter and hugged him. I went into a meditative trance, smelled the white amber bark so beautiful to inhale and felt the true essence of this old friend.
How is your father doing ? Peter said to me in my mind's eye in a language I understood. I wasn't expecting an exchange of words with the tree but here it came. My father is now 87, so I said he's doing ok, he's getting old. My father had spent 30 years of weekends back in the 60s, 70s and 80s, mowing the lawn over near Peter and how he knew he was my father and how he must have watched him day in and day out that he knew him was quite interesting to me.
Trees like to be hugged, most of them anyway. Trees are honored when birds choose them to built their nests and lay their eggs. They love the company. If a tree is lucky, it's old and it has family nearby, other trees of the same species who were seeded by the same parents. Trees and all plants talk to each other under the ground and above the ground. They feel pain and sadness just like humans and other animals. Although they live here with us in this world they also live in a subworld or parallel world where words are spoken both telepathically and yet through the earth and the air.
The best way to speak to a tree is to meditate at their base. Sit beneath the tree (just as the Buddha did under the old Bodhi tree) relax and focus on the breath and empty the mind. The Buddha was addicted to meditation. The Buddha knew the joy and the learning to be had of entering parallel universes. Their words will come to you if you are open to hearing them with a mind that is silent, and empty.
There is family in the woods. You can hear them talk to each other, vibratory, if you're still, empty, and open to hear.
Using Laurie Cabot's Crystal Meditation, at the base of your chosen tree will work. Here is a link to this easy and powerful meditative trance technique. I've used the Crystal Meditation to lucid dream, talk to those who have passed on, and to hear the words of trees. Or you can use a meditation technique you're familiar with. The object is to be empty, still, and open to receiving the communication.
Crystal Meditation
