CSG: Travel Light & Tap Into the Environment.

The Journey into the jungle begins

When we’re about to embark on a great journey, it’s easy for us to fall into the trap of being “over-prepared”. We overthink every possibility and hurdle, and try to compensate for it by stacking resources and tools. We plan our goals and set checkpoints while underestimating the reality of the road ahead. We carry ideas that create a false sense of security within us, making us overly reliant on competency and chance. And then sometimes, we inflate our capabilities in being able to use everything that we have and know.  All of this falls away when you make the first steps into the depths of “the jungle”. 

TYPICAL PREPARATION LIST OF A NOVICE EXPLORER

• Lots of independent tools

• Usually very expensive tools & materials (Paid or Cracked)

• Oversimplification of future tasks or underestimation of the same

• Relying on hearsay and pre-journey validation.

• Lack of true sense of direction

The terrain experiences changes in density, elevation and security over time, so it’s best to travel as light as possible. Traveling light doesn’t necessarily mean to travel empty handed or to leave yourself vulnerable. Traveling with multipurpose tools, all-in-one tools or even compact tool sets allows you to accomplish most if not all of your survival needs, while giving you the freedom of flexibility and mobility. Depending on where you are in the journey, the environment would require unique tasks and set its own objectives specific to the time of day. Look to the environment. Look not only to inform how and when to move, but look to learn.

Learn the terrain. You may find yourself walking in circles if you don't.

Wherever you are, there are systems and energies in motion that can and most likely will provide the answers to the questions in your quest. Look for the signs that indicate where is safe and where is not. What moves and what doesn’t. Identify the flowers and the waters and where the light and wind travel. Take account of your steps and keep track of the journey ahead. Don’t take more than you can carry and don’t carry more than you need. 

Don’t take more than you can carry and don’t carry more than you need. 

Make a record of your experiences. This will help you to grow and better understand what’s now behind and what’s yet to come. This can be journal entries, but if your tool-set allows you to record audio notes or even video, use it to your advantage. Build a library of information out of your experiences so that you can rely on it in the future.

There are moments along the way when you might see danger and in other moments, experience danger. Both are learning moments and act as call-to-actions in your decision making process. The environment is filled with beings and energies that fulfill the role of distraction, derailment and even death, and it’s up to you to fight and work through it.

Caution. Danger. Camouflage may or may not be in play.

Knowing how to use your tools across any number of situations, gives you a strategic advantage, especially if caught off guard. 

More often than not, opportunity strikes and you may find yourself working with limited resources. Knowing how to use those resources to its full and even atypical potential is where experience in the wild comes in. Knowing how to read the space, assess the targets or threats and move through the spaces while working with it, is a slow and painful process behind developing those skill sets. 

As a result, there will be some fatigue, injury, confusion and even loss. You don’t have it all together just yet. But that is what this is about. Being out there, making the journey. Surviving.

As you survive, your soul, spirit and resolve grows. It gets bigger and bolsters you as you navigate through the impasses and new paths. While progressing, try to blend into the landscape if possible. And most importantly keep your sense of direction. The idea is to move through the domains without disturbing the systems and orders around us. Finding the rhythm with the environment helps with identifying what are the symbiotic and reciprocal relationships and how to tap into them. 

You don’t have it all together just yet. But that is what this is about.

Hidden Gems

Eventually with the passage of time and the patience with practice, you’ll learn how to cover ground while becoming more adventurous. Learning how to retrace your steps and set markers as you forge new pathways enables you to discover even the most hidden gems of the journey. It allows you to explore with a greater sense of assurance, opening up greater moments of fresh inspiration. With your Compass in hand, no matter how far and wide, high or low you travel, always stay focused. On the goal ahead and the missions of right now. Stay on guard, be cautious and grow through all of the experiences this journey brings you through. 

Safe travels friends.

Thank you.