Mindfulness

Don't Like Meditation? Nature Therapy is the Antidote: why you should FOREST BATH more often

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Nature does not ask for attention. It just is. Almost everything in today's society buzz to your attention is all vying for your attention and every single moment at every single second, there are things that demand your attention. Nature is the antithesis to this nature. does not demand attention. It just is. Babies Instagram reels, fake meat, fake news, everything demands your attention and every single second of every single hour every single minute every single day. It does not stop. If you've been with me some time. You'll know the importance that are placed on mindfulness. And mindfulness to me is the glue, the cognition, the meta awareness that holds everything together. You can't have health and happiness without being mindful and often mindfulness is synonymous with sitting on a cushion. Close your eyes for 20 minutes, and being with no thoughts and and that in and of itself, is just one form of mindfulness and is regarded as the form of mindfulness but it just it really just isn't. There's so much more to mindfulness in meditation now it's going to stop and say that meditation I think, is the ultimate form of cultivating mindfulness, of seeing your thoughts as just thoughts as just appearances in consciousness and nothing more than that. Not identifying with each and every single thoughts, the bottom line is that when you meditate, you find out over a long period of time what gets extrapolated, is that you are not your thoughts. You're so much more than your thoughts. And this duality is just an illusion. So the Japanese for this forest bathing now, I prefer to just break it down into a more simpler term. It's just human nature. We have a lust and longing, a desire in our hearts, to go out into nature, and just be with whatever is going on. There is nothing complicated about that. That is a form of mindfulness that you can carry with you into your life without having to suffer the perils that meditation can sometimes impose on people because yeah, something that people sometimes forget that meditation is a process. It can be a gruelling process and if you're not ready, it can sometimes cause more harm than good. So if you're not ready for meditation, don't fret, don't worry. Try very nature therapy instead. No, almost everyone I know has access to a piece of green posture near them. If they drive 20 minutes or walk 10 minutes. Most people have access to some form of green pasture or forestry that you can just go into and just be with nature and just see the unravelling the timeless nature of nature itself in the moment without having to sit in your question and meditate for 20 minutes every single day. So bottom line is if you do not enjoy meditation, nature itself is the antidote. It is the ultimate, the sacred form of entering the here and now without having to submit question for 20 minutes. Mindfulness is one aspect of optimal health and well being so as the soil combined with realities are leading onto how to achieve I'm getting a psychology framework that you can utilise. And you can pick and choose what you need to actually know. Better human so once again, if you have watched this episode and likes and comments goes a long way to helping you find my work. And if you are new, I have a weekly newsletter which are released each week is for the weekly. I'll put the link in the show notes but are usually on a packing sub stack. So you can also support me there if you want to help keep your content ad free. And it just gives me a direct line of contact with you offer traditional social media which is what I love more than eating. So again, thank you so much for your support. And I will see you in the next episode.

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"It's the animals that heal me, both in their lives and in their deaths. They walk alongside and connect me to the earth by their example of presence and authenticity. A cow, given grass, her herd, life under the sky, sees no need to ponder the possibilities of tomorrow's horrors. A bald eagle soaring above knows only the thermal waves under its feathers. Fully inhabited in self. It is not lost on me, then, that those very lives of the animals in our world, are what my body asks for to heal itself in their deaths. Animal foods, the traditional, highly valued, deeply nutritious foods prized by our ancestors since the dawn of time, are what bring me satiation. When I eat these foods, the cultured raw cheeses, the drippy braised beef roasts, the venison steaks seared in goose fat, the tallow and the lard and the goose eggs and the liver, my body reports back with a hearty affirmation, impossible to ignore. 'Wonderful! Bravo! Do it again!"

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