Heal your grief. Walk in Nature.
You have heard me saying this many times.
Walking in nature can have a healing impact.
My tendency when I feel stuck in my thoughts is to get busy and take on more work than I can handle. This goes on until my body tells me it is enough. I will get a sore throat or, like last week, my back will start to hurt.
These are my weak points. They are telling me to take a moment and reflect.
It also happens because by being busy I have forgotten to move. I am not doing my ten minute yoga practice and I don’t go for regular walks.
So after I had ‘suffered’ and taken pain killers all week. On Sunday, I decided it was enough and I started to do gentle yoga moves every time I felt the pain in my back.
Breathing a lot and yes, swearing was involved too, because it hurt.
Today I went on a half hour walk in a nearby park. The smells in the forest were uplifting and wonderful. It was a concoction of decaying leaves, needle and sap from the evergreens, and wet earth.
I feel so much better today. I know it has to do with movement and the experience in nature this afternoon. I can still feel where the pain was but it is so much better.
Do you think a walk in nature could help your grieving heart too?
I know it won’t take away all your hurt but it might just give you a bit of comfort.
Don’t wait for the right moment. Just get dressed and go for a half hour walk even if it is in your own backyard.
Be outside, take in the smell of the fall season, and let nature do its healing.
I am sending you healing love.
Take good care,
Jacqueline
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