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Going Home

A return to Nature

By Robert WebbPublished 3 years ago Updated 3 years ago 4 min read
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I remember it like it was yesterday. My memories are so vivid I can taste them, I can smell the pine, feel the cold dance across my spine and see in my mind's eye the infinite white, dotted sparsely with brown and green and black, those colors once again splashed with more white.

I can hear the sound of snow crunching under my boot, the micro adjustments my foot makes to manage the slippery uneven terrain. I can feel the ice wind slip under my scarf and run down my chest, biting my skin as it moves. I can see my breath in the air and feel the clarity in my mind from the silence all around.

Not real silence, there's no such thing. A natural silence, however, is something to be greatly appreciated. All the clutter of the busy world can drift away, become a murmur in comparison to the lightness of bird song, the flowing of a stream, the interplay of wind and leaf. This is where we belong, and it's easy to see when you step out there. It's easy to feel it in your soul when you spend just a moment there.

You need this, more than you can imagine. All the havoc and chaos of a mind led astray by the unnatural. As you move across the landscape, as you step and sense and see and smell and taste and touch and be, you find peace, you find tranquility. You find your mind slows down and your words become softer, your approach becomes stronger, your focus becomes sharper.

These are the byproducts of nature. I once read a book that discussed the benefits of being inside the forest, it brought up the way trees communicate and how this process could potentially be of benefit to humans. Trees use terpenes to communicate, these are often distilled into what we know as essential oils and used in various homeopathic medicines.

I don't dissuade any information, however out there it may be. I know first hand the feeling I get and the difference between spending time in natural spaces versus spending time in a city or industrial area.

I'm sure you have felt what I have described, it may have been a camping trip a long time ago, maybe it was just a moment in a park on a quiet Tuesday morning before the world woke up. Maybe it was sunset on the beach in Bali one year, when the sky was lit up with color and the clouds took on an almost holy appearance. Maybe it is as simple as a cactus in your apartment, just the thought of it, a quick glance, can fill you with a pleasant sensation.

What if being in Nature didn't make us healthy but being out of Nature makes us unhealthy. The toxic thoughts we sometimes carry, the regrets and fears we hold on to, there is a chance that these are byproducts of a life lived outside of nature.

This does not mean that those that spend there days inside the wild do not have fears or negative thoughts, but you could argue that the fears they hold would be of a higher quality. They may fear death, the jaws of a wild savage beast, the sickness of a child and more. Unlike the counterpart inside a city, often fearing the unhealthy habits of fame, social status, financial debt, chaotic energy and more.

The Schumann Resonances are global electromagnetic resonances generated and excited by lightning discharges in the cavity formed by the Earth's surface and the ionosphere. This resonance is felt as a vibrational frequency throughout Earth and sometimes considered Earths heartbeat. It has been said before that the removal of this vibrational frequency from an animals existence may cause unwanted harm.

Currently you can only detect the Schumann Resonances in extremely isolated natural spaces, out at sea for example. This is partly due to the amount of noise we are creating as an adapting, explorative species. The hum of our cities, the rumble of engines, the roar of planes and more, all creating imbalance in our human lives.

We seem to forget that we are animals. That we belong to Earth. That she produced us the same way she produced the mountains and the oxen and the oceans and the bees and the rivers and the buffalo and so on.

We seem to forget that we have a rightful place here and that there are things that are akin to a species survival that are due to it acting in accordance with nature. We have been deviating from nature for only a short time and we are already seeing the unintended consequences of our actions.

It is time to get back to where it all began, to bring your soul to back home, to let your spirit fly once again.

Do not wait a moment longer.

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About the Creator

Robert Webb

Freelance writer.

I write about all walks of life, from fiction to non-fiction, self-help to psychology, travel to philosophy.

I like to bring a sense of humor to serious topics, a splash of philosophical thinking, and a dash of weirdness.

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