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Greetings!
The third of the 5 essentials needed for any personal, business or leadership development is being able to see the bigger picture. Which in this day and age means not only seeing the bigger picture for our own lives but for that of the planet too.
There is a reason for all the factors that we are being faced with in society today, a reason that at its root lies a lack of awareness. Awareness of how we as a collective are living our lives and how we are all interlinked and interdependent of one another.
We have lost our understanding that just by living our life we have an affect on others, the choices we make, the things we buy, the lifestyle we lead, all has an affect on others around the planet and by others I mean other creatures as well as people.
So how do we become more aware, by listening to the stories of the likes of 'Broken Tail' a tiger born into Rathangore, one of India's National Parks and dying 150 miles North in Darra Province and truly knowing the reasons for his death. He brings with him a timely message as regards to our own sustainability, something I will go into further in the following article. If you haven't got time to read it just watch this short trailer of the film.
Have a great weekend.
Kind regards
Simon Blackler
Set Your Spirit Free
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Seeing The Bigger Picture
What Broken Tail Can Teach Us.
I have a thing now about these newsletters if it doesn't profoundly move me then I don't write about it. However as I have continued to reconnect with nature, the tear ducts have rarely been closed so I am never in short supply of material.
Whilst watching nature programmes over the years I have started to wonder why all the tiger, chimpanzee, lion and gorilla footage is all filmed in one particular place, then I began to realise, aaah, it is because there are now very few places left in the world where these animals truly exist in the wild.
Broken Tail was a tiger born into Rathangore National Park (where practically all tiger documentaries are filmed these days). His story had been followed night and day by one particular film cameraman Colin Stafford-Johnson and is still viewable on I player here.
After filming Broken Tail for 2 and a half years, something strange happened in the park, (return of a larger male, poachers, we aren't sure what) his family unit was broken up and he was suddenly gone. Colin couldn't find him anywhere.
Some weeks later a story began to break that 150 miles away a tiger is found killed by a train at Darra, a tiger with a 'Broken Tail'.
Why is this story relevant to us and our situation here in the UK and our everyday lives? Well as Colin takes the decision to retrace Broken Tail's steps we soon begin to realise the message he is trying to give us all.
Once leaving the park, it soon becomes obvious there are no trees or forest left, humans have encroached everywhere around his natural home. On his journey North a few people spot him on his travels and you wonder, 'Well how could you tell it was Broken Tail when not picking out his disformity from so far a range?'
Broken Tail answers from beyond the grave, he like all tigers was looking for a mate, his continued voyage was pretty hopeless as there just aren't any tigers outside the parks in India anymore, that tiger had to be Broken Tail, because he was the only tiger there. There was no other tigers for 150 miles at least.
The population of wild tigers now stands at 4000 worldwide down 96% from 1900 when 100,000 roamed the planet. There are now more tigers in the backyards of Americans, than exist in the wild. The figures are very similar for Lion, Rhino, Gorilla, you name it really. The message is very much the same from the species at the top of the food chain. When these animals are in trouble it is a sure sign that our eco-system is in a very poor state of repair.
As other creatures populations have been rapidly falling, at the same time our population has been rapidly expanding, rising by 700% in the same time span. A population that has been fed and grown on oil. A resource in itself reaching the peak of its production and contributing along with other fossil fuels to climate change. A resource that will continue to become ever more expensive pushing up fuel and food price as it goes.
The forests of which the tiger lives continue to be chopped down for wood and charcoal, more fuel to be burnt to sustain our expanding population, by helping mine natural resources and to be used in building and beautifying our houses,
The forest gone, agriculture and more humans come in, to feed yet more mouths and contributing yet more to the greenhouse affect via methane and other gases that emit from our livestock as well as ourselves. It is the same the world over, Brazil, Malaysia, Russia even. It is time to take stock of our global impact and fully take responsibility for our individual and collective footprint and see the bigger picture as to what it means to be human in the 21st Century. How our actions truly affect others and the decisions we make on a day to day basis.
For the message Broken Tail wants to bring to us is that of sustainability and even contraction. Of balance and harmony, awareness and responsibility. Otherwise all Tigers will be gone, Lions, Elephants, Gorillas, Orangutans, Chimpanzee too and all on our watch. What hope for our wild creatures if they serve no obvious purpose to that of man. Once they are gone we may realise all too late how important they really were to us. Just think about that for a moment. Adieu.
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Set Your Spirit Free is a Life, Business and Leadership Coaching company that aims to inspire us all towards a more authentic and sustainable way of living and working, that is more true to our nature, both inner and outer. Helping us all to find our life's purpose and then come together with others to form common purposes within more inspiring organisations. Enhancing our community, ensuring our environment and enlivening our spirits. I believe we are entering unprecedented times where the combination of various economic, environmental and social crisis are forcing us to think very differently about how we exist more authentically and sustainably. The solutions to these problems lie with more and more of us being aware of how we can uniquely contribute through our own life's purpose. I wish to help as many people as I can through all of my skills, who are already attempting to embrace this new way of living and working, or would like to, and wish to discover how their own unique products and services can help. To find out more about my work research my website here or to see how I might be able to help you in particular contact me now.
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Broken Tail is a tiger that lived in Rathangore National Park, his story perhaps more than any other brings a timely message from nature about our future, read more about him in my article.
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