21/04/2020
This really resonates with me. Often myself and my clients are stressed and depressed from trying to live a life which goes against natural body rhythms. Make sure you incorporate nature, sleep, movement and relaxation into your life.
I've been reading and enjoying Johann Hari's book "Lost Connections" recently. He talks about different approaches to treating Depression and Anxiety.
His view, backed up by lots of research, is that these problems are mostly not caused because we have faulty brain chemistry (although they are affected).
The causes he talks about are the ways we've become disconnected from all sorts of things that are positive for our emotional wellness.
One of the 'disconnects' he writes about is the way we're in the natural world less. Being in nature, or even just looking at it, can make our personal problems seem smaller. Even if it's just for a little bit, it gives us a break.
Not everybody is so lucky with access to nature, or the ability to get out and enjoy it, even if it's on their doorstep. Particularly so in these times when many can't or don't want to leave their houses.
I was thinking about this today, looking at a patch of grass on a meadow area opposite where I live. It's carpeted with wild flowers at the moment.
It took me straight back to my first primary school and the words of a hymn I loved then. I don't remember greenery around that city centre school, the playground was all concrete and it was surrounded by back to back terraced housing. But I could still imagine beautiful wild flowers in the words I was singing.
Daisies are our silver, buttercups our gold..... I definitely had no idea what a speedwell was, but I could imagine the colour blue along with all the other colours in the words, the reds, greens, silvers and golds. It transported me from the dusty wood floor to somewhere else quite magical.
This time, like no other, I hope you have places in nature to go in your mind that please you too. Daisies are our silver. Buttercups are our gold.
Stay well x
