READ IF you’re interested in nature-based mindfulness practices and / or reconnecting with nature.

A disconnect from nature is a disconnect from our nature. What we really want is to get out of world of abstraction and mental over-stimulation and back into the embodied experience of interwovenness with the natural world. Rewilding — reconnecting with the more than human world — is the cure for what’s ailing us. Modern life doesn not allow for recovery and refreshing of our nervous system. We can see in ourselves the “Shamu in the Tank” effect — in reference to the killer whale trapped at sea world that committed suicide by repeatedly throwing itself against its enclosure.

Lessons…

• Go sit outside in the woods for a few minutes and see what happens.
• Walking slowly, barefoot on the earth is a great way to bring you back to your senses.
• The main source of existential dread and mental disturbance plaguing us modern humans is likely a sort of species loneliness. We feel lifeless because we have cut ourselves off from the life force and vitality of the natural world.
• We are not in nature - we are a part of nature. We are nature.

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