To
give up on life when it has so much to offer you is a sadness that surrounds so
many people. The pressures on us to
succeed and to perform at the highest level is stretching people beyond
endurance.
Not
many are able to switch off or to relax and the constant turmoil that we find
ourselves in is absolutely exhausting.
It is no wonder that physical and mental breakdowns are a common
occurrence.
To
break off from the rat race for two weeks holiday is not enough in this day and
age, where there is little time to switch off and truly relax. We find that we become agitated and headaches
arise, as we become more stressed out by the minute.
We
have to stop and take a look at our lives and to see what is truly
important. Do we really need all these
material things to make us happy or is a more simpler life with peace of mind
the best panacea for what we really need?
To
allow time to be by ourselves and to be at one with nature is the very best
option that most of us have and it is free to all who wish it. To be able to take yourself off for short
breaks, even a few hours to be in nature, which has all the healing qualities
that one could ask for.
To
just be and to look around at the green hills, where flowers grow wild and the
trees are there to break the horizon in a soft but magical way, to feel the
wind on your cheeks and to not think about anything, but just to look and be at
one with the spirit of nature itself.
The
colour of green is a very healing colour.
It soothes the stress in one’s eyes and miraculously clears the head. The colour of blue, reflected in water of a
stream or a lake, has beneficial qualities of calming and reducing anxiety and
just by listening to its movement.
The
sea has the same calming properties, even when the waves are sometimes high
they will calm the anxious brow. Trees
hold a certain energy and when you get used to hugging a tree, it will gladly
give off its energy to you, so again restoring the life force that is within us
all.
Nature,
at any time of the year, brings its own healing vibrations and should be
cherished. The smell of the flowers,
their perfume, is natural and soothing.
The golden summer wheat will lift the sadness from one’s brow, as the
golden colour raises one’s vibrations and restores new life and vigour.
Even
the coldness of winter will bring in a feeling of wellbeing, as the clearness
brings a freshness to one’s life and restores one from apoplexy. You feel recharged and all negative emotions
seem to miraculously fade away. Senses
become heightened in so many ways and a belief system in one’s self is
restored.
Through
nature, wellbeing is restored and a certain calming influence, which we all
need, is always there for us. We just
require the time and the space to recognise that we can be healed if we so
chose to do so.
The
emphasis has to be on being quiet and to take in all that creation has to offer
for us throughout the year, so that whatever our problems our mind can, through
peace and tranquillity, be strengthened to cope and not to allow the strains
and stresses of life to overtake our delicate frames.
We
can actually switch off for a time and this is worth so much for so many. We are all able to escape the stresses of
life if we so desire, we just have to make that conscious effort to do so.
Jenny Ayers
Monday, 16th July 2012
