Stillness is Key
Stillness is Key
Well by now we all know that my time in the bush was one that made me really rethink my life and how I want to carryon. All this, mind you, is also amplified by the fact that I’m turning 40 in six months and want to set a conscious effort on how I want to live the second half of my life (good lord I hope I make it past 80, but only time will tell).
Here are the top three things that I learned:
Stillness is key. yes, that’s a book by ryan holiday that i truly love but being in the bush really made that message sink in deeper. In the wild things are alarmingly still, quiet, meditative. Energy is conserved for the necessary tasks, and only that. I believe our lives should follow suit.
we’re all connected. yup, another “no shit idalia” moment but when you’re actually in an ecosystem that literally depends on conservation efforts, it really makes you deeeeppppeeerrrrr on what we’re actually doing to the environment (hello climate change).
anxiety is not worth it. We know that i have anxiety. I’ve been quite vocal about it. Time in the bush smacked it out of me. animals in the wild have no anxiety, why should we? i sat myself down and really began to think about this concept. therapists say that anxiety is from our “fight of flight” survival response dating back to humanity’s more primitive days when we had to fend off a lion. but here’s the thing - when you’re fending off a lion you simply can’t have anxiety! you don’t have time to think, you only have time to survive, and survive you must. thus, worrying about something in our digital world really serves us no good. none. zero. zip.