8 Wonderous Ways to Restore Your Wild Spirit

How can I truly feel my spirit in a modern society that keeps me working like a drone? How do I get my daily dose of fresh air and wholesome earth when I am surrounded by concrete, glass, and traffic? What can I do to breathe life into my soul and into others’ souls?

That part that craves connection to the whole big universe?

“The way to maintain one’s connection to the wild is to ask yourself what it is that you want. This is the sorting of the seed from the dirt. One of the most important discriminations we can make in this matter is the difference between things that beckon to us and things that call from our souls.” ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Let’s go there. To the primal place you can reach in everyday life. Listed below are eight incredibly simple and direct ways to feed your wild spirit. These call your soul on a very base and subconscious level to help bring you back in alignment.

Gardening

Gardeners are cultivators and re-generators, harvesting new life and replacing the old, stagnant energy with new seeds. Dig into the dirt with bare hands and breathe the essence of herbs and flowers into your wise body, for it will recognize them as home. Get earthy and gorgeously dirty.

Feed on Raw Food

Energize and heal your body on a deep, cellular level. Nourish yourself with vibrant greens and fresh juices with nutrients you know the story behind; nutrients that heal illnesses instead of creating them.

Eat wholesome and feel wholesome.

“The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. ” ~ Ann Wigmore

Start buzzing with aliveness from food that is also alive, and feel your body’s wisdom beat with every breath.

Find Live Music

Find the kind of music that makes your soul soar from the sound. From drum circles under ancient trees, to jazz on city streets, to underground clubs that keep people dancing through the night.

Music’s rhythmic beats exist to tell universal truths that awaken us from everyday hibernation.

Have you ever seen crowds of 60,000 people at music festivals? They sing with the bands under enormous summer skies, erupting into applause, dance, and smiles so large they ache.

If that isn’t the wild, primal roar of the human spirit, than I don’t know what is. Find it, because music is life.

Play

Find the most hilarious person you know, whether it’s over social media, lunch, or the work water cooler and laugh.

Even if you only have 20 minutes, take a random car ride to somewhere even more random. Dance to eighties music while you clean the house, paint the inside of your garage neon, or watch a Pixar movie with your favourite kiddo.

Personally, I love swing sets. I don’t care what your age is or how busy you are.

Play is essential to promote a youthful mind which is dynamic, curious, and enthusiastic, and that will open you to new possibilities which will feed your wild spirit even more.

A playful mind is fluid, creative, and of course, wild.

Make Love

Despite what you’ve been conditioned to believe, sexual desire is sacred and virtuous. When you and your beloved merge physically and emotionally, you go beyond the boundaries of the ego and experience timelessness, naturalness, playfulness and defenselessness.

Deepak Chopra

Make love like it’s your last night on earth, gasping for air and sanity, frantic under clouds and stars and sheets.

Get Wet

These are cures that open you in places you forgot could even open, for salt and water are a miraculous mix.

Release disappointment through tears, sweat from awesome, bodily pumping movement, and swim in the soft caress of water. Get cleansed and feel the transformation.

These wild activities often launch you into the feeling of vulnerability and renewed power at the same time, while carrying you to a a clearer place inside your mind.

Yes, there you are again, wild one.

Tell Your Stories

Tell stories of your childhood, of deep rooted pain, of intense loss, of blood and of your greatest loves. Share them by firelight under violet, star-filled skies, or by sending words into cyberspace.

Recount them over cups of strong espresso or glasses of sweet red wine. Tell them with tears and laughter and faith in the human race. Tell them to friends, to lovers, and to strangers.

Write them down and feel their power.

Everyone has stories that need to be told, and there is always someone to listen.

Make sure you tell your stories while you still have the chance.

Shine

Show who you are, authentically, and completely unapologetically. Be fearless in your ambitions, goals and decisions.

That energy will then spread itself into the universe and boost the human race, for one drop can indeed, raise the entire ocean.

“As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people the right to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others” ~ Marianne Williamson

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Concrete jungles are still jungles. Life still happens and occurs in the big city and out in wooded country. Energy flows in and out from you to others in the Universal web. If you are feeling off, unblanced, or disconnected, try these eight wonderful ways to restore your own wild spirit.

And as you work on these wondrous things to restore your wild spirit, do remember that even if you feel that you are not quite there yet, you are a miraculous human warrior and that is wildly magical.

Love and Light,