The stuff I'm here to study: Life on life on life, by Nalini Nadkarni
Meditative Story
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4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Ecologist Nalini Nadkarni – known as the "Queen of the Forest Canopy” – has spent a career clambering around tree tops, studying the interdependence of plants and animals in an ecosystem. But when an accident in the canopy brings Nalini's work to an abrupt halt, she is forced to reckon with interdependence of a profoundly different nature.
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| 0:00.0 | When forests suffer a disturbance, younger species of trees start to fulfill the roles |
| 0:14.5 | the old trees used to play. |
| 0:19.1 | The same is apparently true for me. |
| 0:22.6 | My recovery demands that I allow people in my life to change their roles to balance. |
| 0:29.6 | For my new limitations. |
| 0:33.4 | And as it happens the adjustment isn't all that difficult for us to make. |
| 0:39.8 | Because I'm not the Lynch pin. |
| 0:46.0 | I never was. |
| 0:51.5 | Biologist Neline Nhat Kani, known as the Queen of the Forest Canopy, has spent a career clambering |
| 0:57.6 | around tree tops, studying the interdependence of plant and animal life in an ecosystem. |
| 1:03.4 | In today's meditative story Neline shares a moment of disruption in her life that reveals |
| 1:09.0 | an interdependence of a profoundly different nature. |
| 1:14.5 | In this series we combine immersive, fresh person stories and breathtaking music with |
| 1:19.4 | the science-backed benefits of mindfulness practice. |
| 1:24.2 | And wait what, and thrive global, this is meditative story. |
| 1:32.4 | I'm Rohan and I'll be your guide. |
| 1:55.3 | The body relaxed. |
| 1:58.6 | The body breathing. |
| 2:02.0 | Your mind is open. |
| 2:05.0 | Your mind is open. |
| 2:10.6 | Meeting the world. |
| 2:26.4 | We pause in the middle of a spacious, natural clearing. |
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