You can improve your mood in the natural world with hiking.
What would happen if you spent more time outside, on the earth?
Does your day include stepping onto tile, concert, or carpet, sitting in a vehicle that travels on a concrete highway to a concrete building with sidewalks and more carpet or tile to walk on? Then there is the artificial light.
We as humans aren’t made to sustain that much artificial-ness.
Rather, we need (yes need) to get outside and put our feet on the earth to feel the sun and wind, to dip in a natural body of water (or man-made lake since this is Texas).
Because of this artificial environment, we’ve lost touch with our REAL selves, that part of us that is instinctive and naturally healthy and happy and REAL.
Ever notice how great you feel after an outing to a park or vacation on the beach. It is certainly a function of getting away from our daily demands but it is also that your body got to soak in what it was craving, the natural world.
In 1951 Lewis Mumford an American philosopher wrote,
“the most deadly criticism one could make of modern civilization is that apart from its man-made crises and catastrophes, is not humanly interesting…in the end, such a civilization can produce only a mass man: incapable of spontaneous, self-directed activities…”
Let’s not let Lewis Mumford be right by simply going through the motions or being disengaged, or worse, not engaged at all via A.I. and projected realities.
It is time to GET REAL
Ready
Put in the Effort To
Absolutely
Love yourself
The best way is to spend time outside everyday.
When we are not REAL we act out and eat too much, drink too much, smoke too much, sex too much, or text too much. Then, we may become depressed and go to our doctor and get medication so we can tolerate our lives.
But we really have stopped living our best lives at that point.
To connect to nature and learn from it, follow Valerie Grimes’ podcast: Nature The Drug of Choice on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google podcasts.
