- 💝 With surprises – the gifts of awe, such as crossing paths with a bird, can spring up within minutes.
- A space where it’s easy to dip into meditation. Softly focusing on the complex surroundings of nature can calm the mind and make it easier to meditate. ☁️
- Room to swing your arms and legs, 🤸♀️ to move freely, and encourage physical activity. Choose activities that permit awareness of what is around.
- Phytonicides to improve immunity.🦠
- More gifts such as the smell of dirt, or geosmin,🤩 to help boost mood.
- Textures, repeating patterns, and fractals ❄️ to light up your senses and reduce mental fatigue.
- The gift of grounding your energy. Hug a tree 🌳 that looks friendly to you and notice how it feels to reduce cortisol and increase the hormone oxytocin.
- Spark ✨your creativity. Pick up stones, fallen leaves and branches and arrange them as you choose. What does your creation tell you about the life around you and your life?
- A reminder of the rhythms of life. 🌀 Each day in nature is something new. With a daily practice of nature connection we have the time and space to feel the spiralling in and out of seasons year after year.
- Connection. 💕 We are loved and a part of it all. Talk to the plants and trees, they are listening.
- A playground for your imagination. Try this: imagine yourself very small in the natural space. 🐜 Imagine yourself as a giant. 🦒 How do these different perspectives help you see the space and your life in a new way?
- Freedom from rumination. Slow down, sense what is around and find yourself free. 🙌
- The ability to transmute lower energy emotions. Leave what you can, even if it’s only a tiny part. Imagine yourself a little more centred, a bit lighter, 🪶 and move on.
- Clear thinking and possibly solutions to problems. 🪄✨💐
