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The Natural World has provided us with everything
we need to survive, thrive, heal, and prosper. In this
age of electronics, it is of utmost importance to spend
time in nature everyday! Spend some time with these
exercises, bring a friend or children to do them with
you for more fun and lively discussion.
1. Go to an area in nature you enjoy. Find a part of this natural area that attracts you. For 5 minutes
try to know this area non-verbally through your natural sense of time.
What does time feel like in the world of nature?
In the world of a person?
2. Energy from the Sun flows, creates, and sustains things everywhere. Can you identify the
contribution of the sun in each thing you find in this area?
What parts of Mother Earth would exist today without the sun? Would YOU exist?
3. Do you recognize that when you exhale your breath, Earth breathes you?
Notice your connection to nature as you breathe in pure, sunshine-fresh, plant-oxygenated,
rain-washed air, and the plants breathe the carbon dioxide and water vapor that you exhale. They are
food and water that nurture and sustain the plant and animal world as your gifts to them.
Notice what happens when you hold your breath. Nature urges you to reconnect with it by taking a
breath.
4. As you walk along this trail, quietly notice and count all the different forms in nature.
Some forms are light, some are dense, some are lard, some are smooth, etc. All are unique.
Appreciate all the diversity that nature contributes.
(This exercise can restore calmness and present-mindedness.)
5. Find something in this natural environment that attracts you, be it a plant, rock, tree, flower, bug,
etc. Ask for its permission to be with it.
Feel what it feels like to BE this object. Notice all of the things that it is sensing. Do you have any of the
same senses?
The Natural World has provided us with everything we need to survive, thrive, heal, and prosper. In
this age of electronics, it is of utmost importance to spend time in nature everyday! Spend some
time with these exercises, bring a friend or children to do them with you for more fun and
discussion.
