How Plants Help Restore Order in You & Your Home with Jennifer Payeur

What makes plants amazing?

Yeah, several. Like, so many things. I mean, first of all, we are part of nature, right? Plants have been around long before humans were. I view plants as our elders, our teachers, and literally, they are about 10 years ahead of us from a consciousness standpoint. So they know what's coming. They evolve to be able to guide us through the earth changes that are happening, through the energetic changes, through the environmental changes. And so here they are, these, like, amazing allies that are guiding us, really, in this toxic soup that we're all living in right now. But they're really. They're amazing. And Dr. Zach Bush, if you don't know who he is, highly recommend you follow him. He's one of my favorite people to learn from. And he said, very similar to animals, that plants know when you are coming home. When you are about 2km away from your house, the plants can sense your energy, and they know that you're on the way home. So isn't that interesting? We don't even think about that. Right. We think of plants as very Just kind of, like, complacent as they kind of sit there. But they actually have a consciousness of vibration, a frequency and energy that interact with our own. So that's. I mean, that's the amazing part of plants.

This is all new to me. I've always enjoyed plants, and I almost think of them as decoration. Like, this room needs a plant, that room, you know? And so you just said something that I don't want to just quickly pass over. You said they're 10 years ahead of us in terms of consciousness, correct?

Yes. So they are always evolving, just like us, and they are sentient beings. They have this energy, this consciousness, this vibration, and they are 10 years ahead of us, according to the indigenous peoples, who, you know, are known to hold kind of the heartbeat of the Earth.

So say more about the indigenous peoples. This is fascinating to me.

Yeah, so, you know, really, it's the Hopi Indians. They hold the keys to the consciousness on the planet, to the evolution of our planet. And they are the ones who talked about when we hit, you know, 1999, when we all thought, oh, my gosh, the world was gonna end, the Hopi said, no, no, no, no. It's just that we are evolving and our energy is changing. And so, you know, they kind of track those changes as through them from a humanity standpoint and from an Earth standpoint. And that is one of their teachings of this consciousness. And so, you know, it's kind of funny to me. I was vegetarian for many years. I was vegan, I was raw. I did all of the things. And then I had a shaman. I know we're getting off topic here, but I just want to share this because I think it's important. I had a shaman who said, you know, have you ever thought about that? Plants, in order to evolve, you know, they're part of our evolution. So eat eating plants, eating animals, that's all part of the evolutionary process. And so, you know, that was really like, wow, I never thought about that before. And we thought it like, I don't want to be cruel and I don't want to do this and then come to find out plants have all the same senses. Actually, they have way more senses. They have about 20 senses. We have six if you count the super secret sixth one that's not so secret anymore.

Well, you have to share. You have to share the senses. Just share them all right now. And then I'm curious, like, what are some of the senses that plants have that we don't have? And so, yes, please share the six.

Yeah. So, you know, we've got, you know, the ability to hear, we've got the ability to sense, we have the ability to taste, the ability to see, the ability to know, right? So all of these things, so our kinesthetic, we can feel things with our fingers. And plants, they don't have eyes, they don't have ears, and yet they are in constant communication with each other. So if you have two plants side by side and a caterpillar or some invasive bug is eating one of the plants, it literally will emit a scent to all of its surrounding plants to say, hey, you know, I'm getting attacked here. You know, get ready, you know, do what you need to do to protect yourself. So they're like this community that is always looking out for each other, always protecting each other, which to me is amazing, right? So they don't have eyes, they don't have ears, they don't have a mouth, and yet, you know, here they are always in this constant state of communication. And if you look at the root systems of plants, right, the mycelium, and you see this with mushrooms in particular, those roots are under the ground connecting. And so that's how part of their communication.

I've heard this with aspens, I live in Colorado, and we've got a lot of beautiful aspens. And. And I did hear that they would communicate through their root system. I did not know. I did not know about all these additional layers that they can sense when we're coming home, that they can yeah.

There's a really great book that's called. That's called Plants Talk About.

Okay.

And you can even go YouTube some of these. There are some little, you know, like 30 minute segments on, you know, what scientists have discovered with the plants.

What a great title. What Plants Talk About.

I know.

That sounds like a book I would love. Okay, so when it comes to decluttering, what can we learn from plants? What's the wisdom? What lessons do they have for us?

I mean, they have, you know, plants do not clutter themselves, Right. They, you know, unless, you know, nature drops seeds and they will grow, and they will grow around each other, next to each other, but they don't go on top of each other. Right. They don't overtake each other. When I think about clutter, I think about like, oh, my gosh, I've been overtaken by this clutter.

Yes.

And it's chaos. Right. Even in the natural forest, there is some order that the plants work towards and work together to create. You just don't have this big mishmash of stuff. So I think we can learn a lot about the natural order of things by observing plants and even knowing there are certain plants that don't want other plants around them. Like the walnut tree. I did not know this until I started studying plants about 15 years ago. And so, you know, when I work with the walnut tincture, I take that one solo. Cause I want to honor the characteristics of that plant. So nothing really grows close to a walnut tree. So it's fascinating, you know, when you can sit and take the time to observe the behaviors, you can learn a lot.

So I spent six weeks in a wheelchair because of a broken hip. And every evening I, you know, I worked all day long in front of a computer. And every evening I would say to a family member, so either one of my kids or my husband, who's going to take mom for a walk, who's going to push Mom? I couldn't push the wheelchair because I also had a broken wrist and a cast.

And.

And so I would beg, but I was going outside one way or another, and someone would always take me. But the minute we got outside, I would feel better. It would just completely change any anxiety that I had, any frustration, any kind of unease. The minute I got outside, I just. I can breathe, I can think, I can appreciate. And, you know, sitting at like the wheelchair height, it actually was a very different perspective. We have a local park that we can walk to. And enjoying it from the wheelchair, I saw things so differently. But the sky was so immense. And all of the plants and they really.

It's so much easier to shift into gratitude. Right. When you're out in this expansive world that we live in.

Yes, yes. And that's. I felt that. I felt that gratitude, and it just made it so much easier to remain neutral about the broken hip and the broken wrist and know that it was temporary. And so. Yeah. And now I'm thinking, gosh, the park is less than two miles away. That park. They knew we were coming, right? The plants, like, let's get ready for Heather.

Come on, Heather.

And one of our family members, usually it was my youngest son who would take me. Actually, you know what? I think nature also evokes kindness and compassion. My younger son would push me around more often than anybody else, and he would just chit chat, chit chat, you know, about his day or about anything. And he wouldn't consciously realize this, but on each walk with him, I would get about five kisses on the top of my head. And I feel like the. He's never done that indoors. Never. But for some reason, being outside, pushing me in that wheelchair, just fully. He was fully present in whatever he was sharing and experiencing. It just evoked that extra kindness.