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I love talking a walk and observing everything around me, especially the sky, the trees, the buildings. I find it helps take me out of my head and forces me to be present in the moment.
Jan 7, 2025
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👂No music, quiet, just listening to anything and everything you can. it can be your own footsteps — focus on your pace if you want. If there are birds near where you live I’d highly recommend the Merlin Bird ID app for birdsong identification. It’s crazy what simply existing in the presence of another living thing can do, especially when that something isn’t human. if you live in a city, listen for people’s laughter or children’s voices. When I feel all consuming sadness it often helps for me to get moving (I like hiking but I live in a place that allows it) but it also helps to listen, and in doing so imagining that I am the same as everything else — the birds, the air, the ground. It takes the pressure off existing.
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😃This takes less than a minute. I do this mostly when I’m in nature or other beautiful surroundings. I say one thing I observe in the environment for each of the five senses. For example, I smell the salty ocean air, I feel the breeze on my face, I hear the birds singing, etc. Doing this causes me to slow down and really take in the present moment.
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the knowledge that, at all times, all sorts of drama is unfolding in the sky above me and i just need to go to a dark place and look up, is profoundly humbling yet uplifting. it’s the best nature-based “attitude adjustment” (followed closely by relaxing in a stand of old growth trees).
Jan 22, 2024
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⭐A poem that was mentioned in one of my favourite movies, Interstellar. I love it still and think it'll only become more relevant the older I get <3