ADD LIFE TO YOUR YEARS WITH NATURE
Switch off technology and connect with nature.
It is widely acknowledged in today’s modern world, a truth that our ancestors knew and practiced daily. That truth being, how imperative to the health of our body it is to connect with the heartbeat of Mother earth, bathing in nature. And to go a little deeper, how walking barefoot on the earth helps to promote health and vitality, lower stress, relieve muscle tension and headaches, improve blood pressure, reduce inflammation and its associated pain, as well as helping to stabilise the body’s basic biological rhythms, promoting better sleep, and so much more.
What nature also offers, is protecting the body against health-disturbing man-made sources of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) that are virtually impossible to escape in our modern cities.
This is something that is so obvious, yet so overlooked with inner city living.
Martin Zucker, co-author of Earthing - The Most Important Health Discovery Ever states that
“the modern disconnect from this natural resource right under our feet may likely be a totally overlooked factor behind the alarming rise of chronic disease in recent decades, and inflammatory-related conditions in particular.”
This truth is one that I know to be true in my heart, and one which instinctively has always called to me. When I’m not interacting with nature, I feel it in my body, in my mindset and in my emotions. It echoes throughout every little cell in my body, especially when I am traveling to densely populated cities with minimal greenery and oh-so-efficiently-and-speedily connected wi-fi webs encasing the bodies and minds of those of us inhabiting it.
As the years have ticked by, it’s irrefutable to me that I am much more comfortable in nature. I function better. I sleep better. I feel better. I think better. I am simply .. a more healthy versions of me. And the way I see it is … that the most beautiful way to start the day (after snuggling in bed) is walking our dogs through the bush tracks and rainforest on our property. The scent of trees, grasses and flowers. The bird song. The soothing sound of running water in the creek. The blissful overwhelm of not being able to hear another human, or car, or sound … other than the whispers of the mountain.
Don’t live near a forest? I hear you. Throughout my life I’ve lived in the suburbs in Sydney (close to a beach), in an apartment block in Milan (close to a park), in suburban Las Vegas (on the outskirts of the city near the desert), in the concrete jungle of London (near a park), in the midst of rolling meadows in the English countryside (with nature everywhere), in the Byron Bay hinterland (surrounded by gum trees and near the beach) … and now our home half way up a mountain in the middle of five National Parks and that which feels like the middle of nowhere, completely immersed in nature.
Irrespective of where I’ve lived, there was ALWAYS an opportunity to gift my body a moment of nature (and earthing). All it took was the choice to put it in to action.
