Sunday Musings - 2 June 2024

It's almost warm enough to not have three jumpers on - and the grass is growing, seemingly everywhere except the horses' field - but thankfully that includes the hay field, so they'll at least be happy during winter. 

And there it is - why we are always fighting our thoughts and not just happily sitting relaxing in nature like those animals around us. 

You see, the horses don't care about their hay in winter - they know that there is grass today and the sun is out, so they can eat and sleep in warmth and comfort, just breathing and doing and being horses. 

Down the road, a herd of cows and their calves were lying and standing around chewing the cud and enjoying the sunshine - on ground that, only a few weeks ago was under water - and they were moved there because their field flooded last weekend! 

The sun dapples through the trees on the road with the birds singing in them and, except when you get a bit too close to their nest, their song is the same as it was yesterday, is today and will remain for as long as they exist - and they don't worry about not existing, even as the landscape changes around them - thankfully we do and do what we can to maintain it - because nature is worth saving. 

It's worth saving because it is - but it's also worth saving because study after study after study is now giving evidence to what most of us have known all our lives - being in nature and having time to observe it through our whole being is an incredible way to maintain our mental wellbeing. To be in the moment and see the animals around us teaching us how to be in the moment to. To breathe, to smell, to hear, to know the presence of the flow of time from the ancient past before humans existed through to the future - when we might not exist, but the land itself will .......

To tap into that solid presence of profound eternity and to take a few moments to be one with something outside ourselves and to allow it to take our minds and souls into it's supreme calmness and certainty. 

We can fight for the future - but we must never get out of step with knowing what we are fighting for - and the way that the land intertwines itself into our whole bodies - and brings us balance, peace and solace in it's whole being. 

If you want to know more about how this works, please click to the articles below and have a look at how I work in nature through my site - www.asterales.net - and if it's something your brain and body are saying they would like - then let's talk and come to one of those places where today, yesterday and tomorrow collide in their utter tranquility.