Recharge your batteries: from the forest bathing and idleness
Six strategies that allow you to mindfully recharge your batteries in nature:
1) As aliens in the forest
Walk through a forest. Do it internally as if you had never seen such a landscape in your life. Focus on all the unknown things you encounter here: a spider web, plays of light, bird chirping, strange crunching, tree bark grain. Allow yourself to be amazed, to feel, to listen. What story does the forest tell you?
Effect: Sensory perceptions give energy.
2) nature mandala
Forms of flowers, leaves, mosses and twigs of mandalas on the forest or meadow floor. Build from pebbles stone sculptures or simply paint by hand patterns in the sand.
Effect: Creativity anchored in the here and now and puts you in a good mood. ??????
The true wisdom of life is to see the miraculous in everyday life (Pearl S. Buck, writer)
3) Release
Go to a place where you have soil under your feet. Relax. The feet are about hip-width apart. Look down at you in front of you. Take a deep and deep breath three times and then out again. With each exhalation, say inwardly to yourself:? I let go.? Feel the inner ballast and tension drop away from you. Give all gravity to the ground. He carries you safely. Finally, take a deep breath and finish the exercise with a smile.
Effect: You feel how all heaviness falls away from you.
4) Barefoot over the moss
Walk barefoot through the forest. Put on one foot gently (careful, twigs or thorns can piksen!) And feel in your soles: Which temperature, humidity and structures can you feel? First go over a mossy surface. Then perhaps over a grassy clearing or on a forest path.
Effect: Refreshing the full concentration and the unusual sensory impressions.
There is only one time when it is important to wake up. This time is now. (Buddha)
5) Going mindfully
Take one step at a time during a normal walk: be careful: stay for a moment. Loosen your muscles, stand upright. Gather inwardly with your eyes closed. Breathe in and out a few times. Feel the ground under your feet. Your gaze rests on a point just before your feet. Then slowly lift one foot, shift your weight to the other foot and slowly lower your foot in stride. Now lift the other foot for a careful step. Your attention stays with your breathing and your steps. Go unintentionally and without goal the ten steps.
Effect: You feel an intense connection with nature and your body, a sense of security, grounding.
6) Eagle meditation
Sit down in a relaxed position, whether on the floor or on a chair. Your back is straight, your eyes are half or completely closed. Become an eagle in your imagination. You spread your wings and float high over the land. Feel the updraft that carries you, your strong wing beat, which makes you fly effortlessly.
Now look down, at the city you live in, the people, the cars. Everything is very small. Rejoice in your new perspective. Are you looking around? What do you see? The mountains, the sea? Fly higher and explore what you can see.
If you have seen enough, change the direction. Fly in the direction of a forest, come back down slowly, land on a tree. With a deep breath, you end the meditation.
Effect: The eagle is the symbol of freedom? this power gives us the meditation.
tip: You want to bathe on holiday under professional guidance? Martin Kiem, South Tyrol's only nature and forest therapy guide, leads his participants into the forest and does a variety of exercises together with them. "But the real therapist is the forest," he emphasizes. Further information at www.suedtirol.info/waldbaden.
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