A person who is dealing with trauma has a reduction of options. You’re frozen – traumatized people often resort to retreating and isolatingCeremony spaces are healing opportunities: AA, sweat lodges, shared plant medicine experiences. Helps you understand and openly share your traumas.These experiences can alter your personal narrative, viewing the trauma from a new perspective.Boyd struggled with immense trauma from a crocodile attack, he describes a sweat lodge experience where he passed out and thought he was dying but the guide assured him: you’re not dying brother, you’re just being born

Trauma & Healing

Tracking may be the origins of the scientific method, it was the beginning of deductive reasoning – the art form of applying meaningThe principles of tracking should also be applied to your life – constantly look for and acknowledge information that attunes you with your inner self.The successful art form of tracking naturally creates safety, excellent trackers can convey presence through non-verbal communication with the animals, and vice versa

Tracking & The Meaning of Life

Where your attention goes, your life goes. When you put your attention on living things, there’s more aliveness in your life.Spending time in a single spot in nature becomes deeply personal. You become attuned and orientated with the patterns and interlocking intelligence within natureTrue fear is a rare experience in modern lifeBoyd details a treacherous storm he had to embrace and was overwhelmed with humility and an understanding of the fragility of life.

Lessons from 40 Days in a Tree

Ubuntu – the universal bond shared across humanity, translated as “I am because we are”The western world often is misguided in its search for meaning, associating meaning by comparison. If you grow up in Africa or in nature, you associate meaning through relation. You learn about yourself through your encounters with the world.Sometimes you have to let go of your rational consciousness and let nature take you to a place you can’t go on your ownBoyd describes an encounter with a leopard where he felt this overwhelming sense of connection

Ubuntu Philosophy

The more time you spend in nature, the more you realize how little we know

Whenever you see a leopard, the leopard is allowing you to see it

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate

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Under his family’s stewardship, the Reserve became renowned not only as a sanctuary for animals but as a place where once-ravaged land was able to flourish again and where the human spirit could be restored. When Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years of imprisonment, he went to Londolozi to recover.Boyd has a degree in psychology from the University of South Africa. He is a TED speaker and the host of the Track Your Life podcast. This episode is brought to you by Wealthfront! Wealthfront pioneered the automated investing movement, sometimes referred to as ‘robo-advising,’ and they currently oversee $20 billion of assets for their clients. It takes about three minutes to sign up, and then Wealthfront will build you a globally diversified portfolio of ETFs based on your risk appetite and manage it for you at an incredibly low cost. Smart investing should not feel like a rollercoaster ride. Let the professionals do the work for you. 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