The Spirit of the Olive Tree provides invaluable help when we feel deeply heavy and tired, but do not quite understand why, or when we feel overwhelmed by static, immobile and deep suffering. We live well protected in a life that repeats itself without jolts and unexpected events. Security has always given us a great sense of comfort. We are not able to imagine anything that could possibly deviate from the warm and comfortable habit. But are we still happy?

In this situation we are not interested in imagining changes. In fact, we have a great fear of leaving our territory where we know how to deal with small dangers and difficulties. Our body becomes weighed down, loses vitality and can suffer from dizziness and nausea. We have made security our happiness, but it no longer seems to work. The order of our life, of our carefully cultivated little island, is crushing us. Here comes the olive tree and shows us the sea. A horizon beyond which there is only the unknown. How frightening to imagine changing anything!

The olive tree carries with it the wind and the movement of the air. After all, we have nothing to lose, and something in us feels the need to lose itself, to reset, to embark on a new adventure. Security becomes a gilded cage. It is time to start again, to get involved, to set sail for new shores. It is time to lose oneself, to face new challenges, difficulties and situations. The torpor disappears and makes way for an unprecedented charge that makes us open, alert, calm. The journey itself is the destination and the world our classroom for the school day. We will land once again, as always, we will land to guard our island until one day the sea and the olive tree will lead us to set sail again.

People overwhelmed by suffering or with a bitter taste in their mouth can find a way out in the olive tree. Understanding the deep reasons for suffering enables people to let go of the habits and behaviours that have caused it, and to arrive at luce and inner peace.

The Spirit of the Olive Tree helps to:

imagine losing habits and certainties

go beyond the usual

losing reference points

embarking on the hero's journey

recognising and overcoming old sediments

spiritualizing the body, relieving it of matter

land and be peacefully reborn