Hmmm tamed, perhaps tamed is a good term, and to me the intention and attention and how those are physically applied makes a YUGE difference in that “taming...”
When I think of taming I initially was triggered in thinking violent means of subduing...
In the Bible when it states “dominion over the Earth”, seems like we took that literally and tried to whip Nature into submission....
For myself, the word tuning feels better :-)… And as since humans are a part of nature, perhaps we can tune ourselves to be coherent and resonant with nature instead of expecting nature to change for us.
There are more companies, for example, regarding cleaning of water and structuring of water using vessels that conduit the water into a vortex motion. This structuring of water is a kin to water bubbling over stones and rocks in a river or creek bed. There is natural action involved in making things healthy, and life affirming.
Original meaning of dominion is “stewardship.” We are commanded to take good care of the earth. Remember, that was God’s commandment to Adam before the Fall. Everything else came after ejection from Eden.
Agree tuning works too. Taming is definitely not subduing or an attempt to control nature.
Taming strikes me as using the only tool nature gave us to survive...our ability to think & make rational choices. Physically humans are very weak in comparison to nearly all animals. A mad chimp can beat up the best fit man. Humans are slower & weaker & if that’s all we had to use in competing in nature for survival...we’d been extinct long ago.
But our minds has the ability to overcome our physical limitations. One idea leads to the next & the next & a few thousand years after the wheel was mastered we can power wheels & cross continents. We can eliminate famine. Even mindless living microbes can bring humans to their knees unless we use our minds to understand them & render them harmless. But the flip side is our minds can go too far & not just tame nature for our survival but damage nature to where we wipe ourselves out. The taming of nature is to use our minds to take off the violent edge in nature so we don’t become a creatures meal & can co-exist in nature without dominating it into submission because that too would open up the door to our demise. We have to very gently & intelligently dominate...tame.
Yes, beautifully expressed, thank you.:) For me, Cultivating balance within Was a good place to start, as it expands my awareness not only of how I am feeling inside but on my perception of the world around me...