Nature Is The Great Stress Dissolver
“A walk in nature, walks the soul back home.”– Mary Davis
I went for a walk around my local neighborhood about 30 min ago. For months, I’ve been circling the same route more or less. I decided to take the off-roads today for a change. For a little micro-adventure.
Because why not?
Prior to that, my head was full. I’m exploring a new business venture of setting up a natural health shop and healing clinic. So I’d been planning for days. Gosh is there so much planning.
I needed to clear my head and revel in the sounds of nature once more.
I’m glad I laced up my walking shoes and hit the sidewalks
In all, I walked for about an hour. It was nice to get out and breathe the fully oxygenated air. The fresh air clears the mind and brings more energy tome.
It was a simple delight looking at the variation in the way different homes tended to (or not )their lawns or gardens. We encountered a bright blue home, that my little one adored. Although it wasn’t to my taste. I prefer more somber color notes. But then I’m not an eight-year-old boy.
This made me reflect on and appreciate how deeply healing nature is.
The low cost of bliss
I could feel my stress dissolving with each step. My muscles softening, as I paced through the sidewalks. It was more a saunter than a walk. I refused to mentally let exercise come into the process. This walk was more for my mind. Then my body. It felt good. I didn’t have to spend a penny to achieve this state either.
No substance was consumed, and no person paid. To achieve the stress dissolving benefits of a simple walk.
That is always a good thing.
Especially nowadays when it seems that all our conscious states have been usurped. By some form of a commercial enterprise or another
- Want to feel alert?… Here’s some coffee
- Want happiness?….Take this pill
- Want to feel strong?… Enroll in our gym
- Want to be entertained?….. Hit the movies, club, show or festival
- Heck want to sleep well?….buy this $150 pillow.
Nature provides all these benefits. For free. It feels good.
We can all too easily forget that nature sufficiently provides us with most of our well-being needs. If only we commune and appreciate her.
Here is to my healing walk. And to many more to come.
Writer’s Note: Egypt is a writer, poet, minimalist, freedom, and wisdom seeker. She writes on things related to simplicity, creativity, and freedom HERE
Originally published at https://artisanoffreedom.com on August 12, 2020.
