40 Ways to Experience Nature

 

Going back to the nature can shift your mood instantly. Whenever you feel mentally overloaded and tired, take a time out, leave the city if you can, and go back to the nature.

Take solace in its eternal beauty and its uncanny ability to recharge your mental batteries.

Get in touch with the force of the divine Mother Earth and rest in its lap, while it takes your worries away, and makes you feel like you belong somewhere.

Leave all your modern gadgets behind, and just be as close to the nature as you can, without any strings attached—the strings that bind you to the busy day to day world that demands your constant attention in one way or the other.

You’ll come back refreshed and energized with a renewed sense of being and purpose. Here are 40 ways to feel the nature in its true beauty and internalize that experience so that it remains with you when you are back to your ordinary living.

40 WAYS TO EXPERIENCE NATURE

1. Walk barefoot on the grass in the early morning
2. Touch the delicate leaves of a flower and smell its fragrance
3. Spend a night away from the city and watch millions of stars shining their glimmering lights on you
4. Lie down on the ground and stare at the vast sky
5. Sit on a beach and watch the waves come and go
6. Watch the moon travel slowly in the sky
7. Spend some time alone deep inside a natural cave in a mountain and feel the silence
8. Reach at the top of a mountain and look at the scene around you
9. Take a shower in the rain
10. Bask in the smell of the Earth when it just starts to rain
11. Sit with your back against a tree, under its shade
12. Go to a desert and experience its majestic silence
13. Swim in a natural lake
14. Take a bath in a natural spring
15. Take a long walk on a natural path in the woods surrounded by trees, especially in the autumn season
16. Watch a rainbow suspended in the sky
17. Meditate in the silence of the early hours of the dawn
18. Feel the rays of the Sun shining on you at the dawn and dusk
19. Follow a cloud on its journey in the sky
20. Watch some birds flying in the sky
21. Eat some ripe fruit, freshly handpicked from the plant
22. Take deep breaths under the open sky, in the fresh morning air
23. Look at the face of a sleeping child
24. Watch children playing in a garden
25. Walk on the sand and feel it shift under your feet
26. Fill your hands with the sand and feel it slipping between your fingers
27. Listen to the sound of sea in the silent hours of the night
28. Light a natural wood fire and sit around it in the dark winter nights
29. Listen to the sound of the rain dropping
30. See the snow falling around you
31. Feel the wind caressing your face in an open space
32. Listen to the sound of a thunder storm
33. Hold some natural ice in your bare hands and watch it melt away
34. Listen to the sound of the ruffling leaves
35. Listen to the sound of a natural water fall
36. Feel the fog engulfing you in the foggy mornings
37. Touch the trunk of a tree and feel its contours
38. Throw a pebble in the water and watch it skim away
39. See the reflection of a full moon in a lake
40. Listen to and feel the sound of the silence

 

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