I like to spend my days going on long, rambling countryside walks, swimming in our local lake, growing vegetables, foraging for mushrooms and edible wheats and cooking vegan meals.
When you described dreaming of a fox and a badger I thought 'Shades of Wind in the Willows' lol. Here in the US we have had the Emerald Ash Borer infesting Ash trees for many years, and it shows, and now something is affecting the Beeches as well. Thank you for sharing your experience.
It is the only way to go swimming. After all, fish , frogs, and other water born animals don’t wear bathing suits. 😊😊😊 Really the sure way to feel free. !!!!
Thank you for this beautiful meditation. I have a friend who is a Forest Bather practitioner and routinely takes groups out. I have been privileged to attend once but schedule and health issues have kept me from getting out. I need to just start going out again on my own schedule and time frame. (Hers are typically 3 hour sessions). You have motivated me to get out even if just 30 minutes 😊❤️
I never really did forest bathing, not intentionally at least, but... This one time, in 2015, when I was working in a factory doing metal works there, physical work, I decided to save my rent money and cancelled the apartment rent deal, no more house for me. I started to sleep on the city woods, while working the days in the factory. It wasn't even that hard, the hardest part really was to cope with the fear that someone might come and kill me when I sleep, or something. I did that for nine months. And the effect? I quickly became more healthy, more vibrant, more vital, stronger, emotionally stronger too, and mentally. And lighter. I had a six-pack without overtraining my abs. I was lean and muscular unlike now, nine years later after coming back to a house to sleep. Coming back to house, I soon contracted psychosis and became a bit less healthy, bit fatter and maybe weaker too. Before starting to sleep in the woods, I was pretty miserable at the factory job. I felt it physically quite demanding, even though my co-workers seemed to be fine. And emotionally, I was miserable there too. But, after starting to sleep in the woods, there was a profound and quick change. Co-workers started to respect me more and notice me, and support me even a bit more. One of them had done the same sleeping in the woods while working thing, as I did. And his friend said, "soon everyone here will come to sleep to the woods nearby with you", hehe. I guess they saw what that did to me, and they approved. It might've been the best decision in my life. Before that I was studying a bit of the things I kinda wanted to, but when I started sleeping in the woods, I moved to study things I really wanted to study: Daoist secrets. Learned really nothing from the book, because I didn't put effort to the practice, but I studied other things like that too. I studied because I felt I was able, I felt good about it. We were once in the forests. Back when we were cavemen and women. We spent many lives there. Why should we suddenly stop, especially when there's no longer mammoths, sabertooths, tigers, wolverines nor other beasts that hunt us like prey? Yeah in USA at least there's cougars and bears, here too some bears, but bears don't usually attack you if you are calm and don't move fast and don't turn your back on them, nor surprise them when they've just had kids and are protecting them. Mama bear with kids is one of the worst things here you can run into. But hell, it's still better than being in the slavery and suffering of city life. The only part I still don't know well how to handle in the forests, is getting food, especially animal foods like meat and organs like liver and kidney and all parts of the animal, really. I'm not gonna get a gun and start hunting, not even a crossbow I think, just go to a market and buy meat, or fish some fish with fishing pole on the lake. Eat berries from the forest. Some sammal (fungi-like plant growing on rocks in here in Finland). Please lemme know if you have similar experiences, and what you think :) I'd love to hear you Mikko Murmeli
So atmospheric....I have painted my Scottish surroundings from an Island studio for 5 years, it's the atmosphere that never fails to stir the emotions.
What an adventure spirit! . I was reading ms Lady Gordon Cathcart small biography seems she was a rich inhibiter ilegitímate daughter of John Gordon . Both cruel anti catholic land owners
Sehr schön beleuchtet das rainforest topic in den nordischen Hemisphären. Wir lieben die Caledonian Pineforests in Schottland und sind schon sehr gespannt wo die Entwicklung hingeht. Da gibt es ja seit einigen Jahren vermehrt Bemühungen den ursprünglichen Wälder den verdienten Platz einzuräumen. Liebe Grüße
No large trees though, to protect homes from strong winds and harsh sunlight in summer.. we have karge tall trees in our country, perfect to protect us from both.. but i love Scotland
