How to Disengage From The Noise. How to Reengage With Our Mind.
A memo to all of us seeking that cocoon of sanity and mental peace.
I tend to disengage very quickly from work or noise from the media. Somehow, our ecosystems have gotten noisier, and everyone wants their airtime. Everyone wants to have their voice heard.
It is to be encouraged, and it can be tiring just listening to others. For one, we lose time listening to ourselves. What can we do to disengage and to re-engage?
Enter forest bathing.
I know forest bathing is prescribed as a natural therapy for the depressed. I think it works wonders even for me. While I cannot articulate the medical benefits, it has brought me some peace.
I will disappear rather occasionally for a green bath. My eyes always feel good when I stare into the green. I appreciate watching the natural world in harmony too. Trees of the same species co-exist peacefully despite different heights, stem thickness, and buttress extension.
There is an unparalleled symphony in the background too. Crickets sing, birds chirp., and of course, occasionally hearing complaints from fellow humans. It’s music to the ears.
It isn’t always blue skies with puffy clouds. Heat can be a huge turn-off, especially where I live (near the Equator). Plus, muddy trails could impede the exploration of the natural world for the squeaky-clean types.
Having a natural world wrapped in urban constructs is actually not a bad idea. We can stand beside a water-fall and be enchanted by the sounds created by water motion. Then at a turn of the path is a MacDonald’s. There is no need to walk out of the forest for a meal.
We could also be admiring the flora and fauna under a much cooler temperature, appreciating temperate species that could never survive in the natural Equator. That saves us the sweat too.
I think there is beauty in combining the 2. The issue is sacrificing one for the other. And I think if we could work to think harder about combining the urban and forest worlds elegantly and harmoniously, then who knows what good work could we have produced for ourselves and our young?
At that point, we might have finally evolved as an intelligent species and deserving of our position at the apex.
Yup, who knows.
Cheers to all Nature Lovers,
Aldric
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