Do you love nature as I love it?

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

When you ask people - why should they go out into nature? The answers usually do not reveal the essence, for example: eat a barbecue, relax normally with friends. Or the answers consist of imposed cliches: ecology, clean air.

Closer to the point are those who say that there are no people, you plunge into the primitive.

Only now there are no people in the locked apartment, and you can't breathe fresh air for an hour a year.

Why go, God knows where, to gobble up a ton of meat under a bush, like a tuz in a garbage dump?

It's called rest, remember?

Something tells me that the body is not very enthusiastic about overeating and abundant intoxicating.

So it is - this is rest. Rest … no, not for the brain, as one might think. This is a rest FROM the brain.

More precisely, from what we used to call the brain - the mind. We rest in nature from the work of the mind.

We do not run away from problems, as we could do by getting drunk or looking at the TV until the morning. We do not hide them, trying to switch. In nature, the mind stops working the way we are used to.

1. An insane amount of sensory new experiences.

The singing of birds, the sound of the wind. Constant new patterns of grasses and landscapes, bright lights, clear skies. A host of smells, the moisture of a river (sea, lake). We chop wood, we walk a lot.

The brain cuts out a part of itself from unnecessary thoughts and begins to work on sensing - sensory perception.

2. The speed of the passage of time decreases.

We are wasting our time. Not in the sense that we do not notice its flow, but we get out of the pressure of time. There is only sunset and there are no more restraints.

Here is a fire, it is burning. We need to collect more firewood to keep burning.

3. We forget about fears.

The nature, where they go for a short time, is not very dangerous. You are unlikely to be attacked by a wild boar in the Moscow region, and you don't even have to remember about a wolf.

And we are afraid not of a wolf and a bear, but of a boss, a creditor, an evil neighbor, etc.

A strong change in the environment in nature forces the brain to switch to the here and now. Into presence. In the present.

And then you really get high. Life flows differently.

It is very difficult for young, modern, energetic and ambitious people to switch off even in nature. Then faithful friends come to the rescue with vodka and barbecue.

Real to you. Try it … right now.