Roots

This lovely tree has had it's roots exposed through years of erosion. Storms and a natural falling away of the bank have uncovered the roots as the tree aged and allow us to see the complex system which brings nourishment to it's trunk and branches.
What makes us who we are - the experiences, conditioned responses and belief patterns - usually remain hidden until life events expose them to view. We often bemoan the downs of life and yet stormy times and upsetting events can initiate a crucial process of self discovery. Perhaps with the help of family, friend or professional, we can choose to expose and explore what is feeding our behaviours and our emotions. This process of discovery is natural in our personal evolution and can enable the letting go of some of the assumptions about ourself that have held us in habitual patterns of behaviour. Seeing and accepting the causes of our current emotions tends to reduce the power of the past and allows us to  re-invent a lighter self based on who we are now.