Another time was when I was swimming in the pool with my little sister (who's very intuitive), and she had me stay still while she dumped a pale of water on my head. I closed my eyes. You'd think there's nothing scary about having some water dumped on your head, but for some reason that simple act entailed that I had to *trust* her, a kind of surrender. I think that was the key to what happened next.. I suddenly felt divine happiness literally in my heart (heart chakra or maybe solar plexus chakra). It was so subtle yet so real and something that was so far from my normal miserable empty experience. 

Anyway, while in this state I was watching the trees blowing in the wind, and I could actually *see* the happiness of the trees or their leaves being tickled by the wind and the sun, because it was the same happiness in my heart. So, now I know that trees actually are spiritually alive and sensitive and enjoy life. 

Sometime not too much later, I overheard my mom saying that my sister had told her that a pain she'd had in her hand for years was magically gone. I think it probably had something to do with the divine presence touching my heart while we were in the pool.

The joyous feeling in my heart that time was a living energy, like there was a kind of inner motion to it.