ILLNESS OR WELLNESS

I love this teaching from Indian Yoga Guru, Swami Satchidananda, who described the difference between ‘illness’ and ‘wellness’.

Swami is famous for lots of things, including giving the opening address at Woodstock in 1969!

He wrote down both words and circled the ‘I’ of illness and the ‘WE’ of wellness. “That is the difference”, he said. “It’s ‘I’, the separate self, and that experience of ‘we’, that sense of collectivity that really brings us home to our belonging. Our healing comes when we start enlarging our sense of what we are to that sense of community.” I could not agree more.

I found a fast route to shifting my mindset from believing I am a separate self, suffering on the ‘hamster wheel of life’, to a being that is connected and part of the whole universe is through opening my senses to nature.

Since May 2021 I have pretty much walked 9 kilometres before 9 o’clock every day, covering more than 6,000 km on 700+ walks in nature. Being present at 700+ sunrises and experiencing 300+ forest bathes.

By using the healing power of nature you can shift your sense of who you are and massively improve both your mental and physical well-being.  By opening your senses through mindfulness and forest bathing techniques you can connect with a greater power. The ‘I’ starts to shift to ‘WE’.

Edgar Mitchell, on Apollo 14, said, “In outer space you develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world and a compulsion to do something about it.” You don’t have to be an astronaut to get this. You can use the outdoors and nature to understand your relationship with the planet. Connect with the universe. Take a step back, zoom out, and see life from a higher vantage point. This can turn daily worries of anxiety to absurdness.

My book, Walking Back To Happiness: The Secret To Alcohol-Free Living & Well-Being and my coaching course Reroot Yourself shows how you can re-connect with the natural world through walking outdoors, watching sunrises, forest bathing and being more mindful about the changes in nature that are happening all around you. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nigel-Jones/e/B0B7RP6LH6/

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