Enjoying Nature

We have had some very changeable weather the last couple of years and we can expect that it will continue for some time.  This makes it all the more wonderful to take advantage of the temperate days, and the days that provide sunshine.  Not only are these days healthy for us, as we are able to absorb the extra vitamin D, but the fresh air helps to revitalize all of our systems.

If you are able to take a bike ride, go for a hike, sit at the beach, or have a picnic, you are helping to recharge your internal batteries and will feel much better for it.  There is no greater place to be in touch with the Universal Divine than when you are out of doors in the lap of nature.  There are so many things that you can do outdoors and nothing, no disability, no negative frame of mind, should keep you from this type of healing. 

I have recently been ill and feeling paralyzed, but even an hour outdoors helps me to feel so much more alive and gives me a positive mind set.  It is a wonderful way to stave off depression and accept that whatever negativity you are going through is not the fault of your mind, rather there is something physiological which can respond to nature, if you let it.

Perhaps you feel that rainy days are wasteful and troublesome, emotionally.  There is nothing like meditating to the sound of gentle rain tapping on the windowsill.  You can turn even the difficult days around if you will accept that there is much change with regard to the weather, and therefore, life in general.  Going with the flow and deciding to have an activity chosen no matter what the weather, will bring you peace within.

May you be richly blessed!