Those Were the Days
When I was young, we called it going outside or going for a walk in the woods. Now it is called “Forest Bathing” or “Shinrin Yoku” in Japanese, where it is now a fad. That sounds much more elegant for sure.
The trees not only smell great, which is medicinal like essential oils, but they also provide us with life-supporting oxygen. Just as we breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, they breathe in carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen. This is true synergistic support from Nature.
Sunrise Medicine
If you can do this at sunrise, even better. You get the sunrise sunlight frequency medicine from the rays of the sun up to around 10 degrees, and set the entire endocrine and bioelectrical system in proper rhythm for the day, all the way from the brain to every part of the body.
If you can stop and touch your bare feet to the ground, even better. You receive free antioxidants from the earth in the form of electrons and energy from the earth.
Plastic shoes insulate us from the earth. These days, there are kool shoes that do not insulate us from the earth, but open pathways from our bodies to the earth even while walking. They are called earth shoes or you can use attachable strips on the bottoms of your shoes. Check out the intuition Physician Dr. Koniver, the earthing expert.
One tip too, if you are looking for a little more weight-bearing for bone strengthening, when you walk, add a couple of light weights to your ankles, or as some do, wear a weighted vest to get more resistance and strengthening of your bones for your walking workout.
Either way, get out into Nature since it is our interconnected partner for optimal health and healing.
Scottish Wildlife Trust – Trees are our Friends
Research shows: Spending time around trees can reduce stress, improve immunity, lower blood pressure, and accelerate recovery from illness or trauma. Furthermore, when you hug a tree, you release a hormone called oxytocin – known as the hormone of love and trust – which gives you that warm, fuzzy feeling. So you don’t even need a whole forest, you just need one tree! With these benefits so easy to gain, does being a ‘tree hugger’ sound like such a bad thing?
The Mushroom Connection
No surprise, there is amazing synergy happening in the world of Nature, and we should use this as a model for our lives and society. Mushrooms feed trees, and trees feed mushrooms. The sugars from the tree go into a massive underground network of mushrooms, and give energy to the mushrooms while at the same time, minerals and nutrients go back to the trees. If this relationship did not exist, the trees of our world would never get beyond 2-3 feet tall. Can you imagine!
The Dao of Connecting with Nature
In my practice, after over 25 years working with people for holistic healing, it has become more and more important to see how people must integrate all aspects of their lives, for total healing and long-term success. We should drink water, but drink healthy water free from toxins and charged by the vortex flow of energy in the earth. We should eat food that ideally is being grown locally from the same elements of the earth that are also nourishing, growing, and feeding us, and above all, be free from unnatural and neurotic chemicals. We should look at the world from a nurturing, beneficial, benevolent perspective.
And, we should socialize with humans, plants, trees, the planets, the sun, and animals. In a book called, The Secret Life of Plants, we learn that even plants that were treated poorly respond negatively to the environment and mean visitors. The superpower of kindness can overcome all challenges and accelerate our healing, too.
We were not born in a lab, so why go to a lab for solutions? We did not come into existence with a heart of hatred, but instead, we were all born with a heart of compassion, which unites us with all sentient beings and all elements of our universe. Be connected, be whole, be healthy, and be grateful for all we have in this amazing world, and be a witness to it yourself, by simply taking a walk in the woods. And, once in a while, smile and look up at the amazing universe that made all of this happen.
