What can Mother Nature offer your well-being?

When you feel tired, jaded or upset, it’s a good time to go for a walk in nature. It doesn’t matter if it’s a simple park in your area or out in the countryside, the positive affect on you will be the same.

Mother Nature has many healing properties to offer you. A wonderful blue sky with fluffy clouds scudding across it can be very uplifting. The wider horizon with greenery, can bring perspective into your life. Even if its raining, the cool drops of water falling on your skin can be invigorating.

Go for this walk just with yourself rather than with a friend. If you have a friend with you, you will chatter all of the time and miss many of the benefits of this walk. Walking with a friend can be a good thing, but for a different reason. Its often about companionship, sharing of something going on in your life or mutual support through challenges. A walk in nature to feel good is a different sort of walk.

So, if you are walking in nature to help you feel better and stronger so you can cope with your life and even enjoy it, don’t walk along with your face looking at the ground. You would be surprised how many people do this! I am a great people watcher when I go on my walk….

Hold your head up and look at all of the beauty around you. You don’t have to pay money for this great experience. All you have to do is make time and space within your head to observe Mother Nature and feel her nurture you.

Let go of your thoughts and worries and enjoy the moment.

Breath in deeply the lovely air and energy so it goes deep into your body. Feel the energy go down through your body and out to the tips of your fingers and toes. Ideally take three deep breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth. Draw in the healing energy and let go of the energy that no longer serves you. Give the later to Mother Earth to deal with so no-one else absorbs it.

Many are surprised how a twenty-minute walk in nature can make such a difference to their day. Your mind, body and soul need nourishment, energy, revitalisation and strength. After a walk you will be surprised how the tasks and challenges that seemed so hard, now feel more achievable.

Nature has much to offer, so

take time outside to connect and spend some quality time in Mother Nature’s presence.

There is much to be gained from it.