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Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary
storm. No matter how raging the billows are today, re-
mind yourself: “This too shall pass!”
—T. D. Jakes
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🔹 BULLET GIST — “Health and Healing”
Visualization Therapy & Nature Imagery
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After returning home, she researched visualization therapy and its use in healthcare.
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Many health groups use tree and forest imagery to support patients dealing with pain and serious illness.
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These practices complement conventional treatments like chemotherapy and radiation.
Stress Effects During Treatment
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Dan Johnston (Mercer University School of Medicine) notes that chemo and radiation can cause:
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Physical responses: high blood pressure, rapid heart rate.
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Emotional reactions: tension, fear, frustration.
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These reactions can worsen side effects such as nausea, fatigue, and low energy.
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Entering treatment in a relaxed physical and mental state helps reduce negative side effects.
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Nature imagery, including trees, can help patients reach this calmer state.
Tree Imagery for Children
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The Empowered Within Project uses tree-based visualization to help children cope with serious illnesses.
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Children listen to guided imagery audio before chemotherapy.
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One track, “The Strong Tree,” teaches children to imagine a tree as a symbol of resilience and continuity, even when changes occur (like a fallen branch).
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Message: despite physical changes from illness or treatment, they remain themselves, just as the tree remains strong.
Trees and Emotional/Spiritual Health
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Trees support not only physical and psychological well-being but also spiritual and emotional health.
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Moyra Caldecott (in Myths of the Sacred Tree) emphasizes two environments humans must preserve:
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The physical world for bodily survival.
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The symbolic/spiritual world for inner survival.
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Trees are essential to the first, and the symbol of trees is essential to the second.
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🔹 BULLET GIST — Forest Change & Disturbance Ecology
Long-Term Tropical Forest Studies
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Starting in the 1960s, forest ecologists began long-term studies in tropical forests.
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Researchers repeatedly measured the same plots year after year, tagging individual trees.
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Over 30 years, they recorded which trees died, fell, and the causes.
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Findings showed tropical forests undergo significant change over short periods.
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Even though individual trees may live 300+ years, overall forest turnover is only about 60 years—much faster than early explorers believed.
Pacific Northwest Old-Growth Forest Insights
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Tree-core studies reveal these ancient forests have experienced many disturbance regimes:
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windstorms
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insects
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floods
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fire (most significant)
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Tree rings show fire scars, indicating that fires can burn through forests but leave some mature trees still standing—like earthquake-resistant buildings amid ruin.
Fire-Adapted (“Resister”) Tree Strategies
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Some tree species evolved traits to survive moderate fires:
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Thick bark
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Tall crowns that stay above flames
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Examples include Douglas-fir and ponderosa pine.
Role of Severe Disturbances
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Even severe fires are not entirely destructive—these species’ seeds need abundant sunlight, which openings from big disturbances provide.
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Thus, major fires and strong windstorms are essential for their regeneration.
Species with Low Fire Tolerance
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Coexisting species like western hemlock are typically top-killed by fire.
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They must regenerate from seed and grow slowly upward in the shade.
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Saplings often must wait decades or centuries for a large tree to fall and create a sunlit gap in the canopy.
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🔹 BULLET GIST — “Signs and Symbols”
Trees as Symbols of Vulnerability
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Images such as the napalm scene in Apocalypse Now show trees as vulnerable, where entire groves ignite instantly.
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When trees burn, people who rely on them for protection and cover also become vulnerable and exposed.
Trees as Symbols of Resilience
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Trees also represent endurance and strength, capable of surviving repeated disturbance.
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A poem by Mayan writer Pancho Ernantes depicts a tree harmed by animals and people but still persisting and growing, symbolizing human resilience despite hardship.
Human–Tree Parallels
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The tree in the poem endures:
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livestock eating its leaves
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children damaging trunk, branches, and flowers
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storms blowing off blossoms and fruit
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Yet with support (symbolized by rain), it continues to grow and flourish, mirroring how humans endure despite challenges.
Strength + Fragility in Literature
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Sandra Cisneros (in The House on Mango Street) portrays trees as both frail in appearance and fiercely strong beneath the surface.
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Their hidden power comes from deep, tenacious roots, suggesting inner strength that is not immediately visible.
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🔹 BULLET GIST — “Mindful Relationships”
Tree Actions as Verbs
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Poet Bill Yake sent her a poem listing simple verbs to capture what trees do, not what they are.
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The poem emphasizes that a tree’s identity comes from its actions and processes, echoing Ernest Fenollosa’s idea that thinking should focus on verbs.
Range of Tree Verbs
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Tree verbs describe growth (seed, swell, sprout, bloom, unfurl),
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Maturity and metabolism (absorb, respire, assimilate, release),
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Aging and decline (senesce, rot, wilt, wither, abscise),
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Physical responses (brace, bend, shake, deflect),
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Ecological roles (shade, shelter, harbor, protect, mask, support).
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Trees are shown as active participants, constantly moving, responding, and interacting with their world.
Adding Verbs
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Bill suggests more verbs will be added as human awareness of trees increases.
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She contributes her own: symbolize, shelter, and be, highlighting both physical and symbolic roles of trees.
Closing Focus on Relationships
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She chooses to end not with science or policy but with a poem about relationship, emphasizing that:
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Relationships—human + tree—
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motivate care, action, and mindfulness more effectively than facts or arguments.
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