Step One: Start out on a 10-minute walk in Nature. Feel your feet connecting to the Earth.
Step Two: Awaken your sense of hearing. Stop for a minute and LISTEN. Close your eyes and count the sounds you hear. Note that some sounds come from sources hidden from your sight. Consider that new insights sometimes come from invisible realms as well.
Step Three: Open your eyes to a color bath! Look around you and find all the colors of the rainbow in view. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. Sometimes it's a challenge to find each one, but in the searching, your vision wakes up and you start to notice colors as surprise gifts of delight. The world seems more vibrant and wondrous.
Step Four: Scoop up a handful of Earth and smell it. The sense of smell is one we often miss. Notice that the earth beneath your feet has different scents in various places. The sense of smell most links us to our memories. Create a new sensory memory today!
Step Five: With the handful of Earth in your hand, feel the textures of the soil, the leaves, the twigs. Take a minute to poke around with your fingertips and wake them up. Feel the textural bath that Nature provides: smooth, rough, prickly, soft, bumpy. What a joy to feel the variety that's missing from our daily life at keyboards!
Step Six: Taste is a sense we rarely use outdoors, but give it a try! Touch your tongue to a leaf, or tree bark, or even a stone. Explore the earth in this way and don't be shy.
Step Seven: With your senses awakened, continue walking for a few more minutes, breathing in the air, connecting yourself with the Earth, with your humanness! Go back into your day with heightened awareness of the subtle features of your landscape. You may find that your thinking and your ability to create solutions to problems is keener as well.
Blessings on your day!
Let me know what you discovered by awakening your senses.
In joy,
Regina
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