Re-Nature: Connecting with your multi-sensory intelligence to the genius of Nature.

The quality of your experience echoes the quality of your attention. Expanding and deepening the quality of your attention in the natural world, opens the way to radical astonishment in your experience.

Can you set aside repetitive thoughts that carry a negative charge? That's the easiest thing to say and the most challenging thing to do. Breathe and allow yourself to bathe in gratitude in the present moment.

Can you allow yourself the time to sense life forms such as roots, a leaf, a flower, a fallen branch, a stream, and natural patterns with the quality of attention that allows you to recall these forms later? This effort requires using your sensory intelligence to record life's colors, shape, texture, scent, and patterns. Pause and take it all into the experience level of embodiment.

Before naming it, can you experience its presence and explore the qualities - colors, shapes, scent, pattern, texture, and environment - of something in the natural world?

The physiological benefits of Nature/Forest Bathing are well-researched and documented. The psychological and cognitive benefits are also studied and documented. Why does 90 minutes in a relaxed state of mind in nature result in higher levels of cognition and creativity?

Neuroscientist and author Iain McGilchrist points to the distinct qualities of the right and left brain. It's a vast topic and one worth delving into at another time. However, in essence, the left brain says, "I know," and the right brain says, "I experience". The adage, "experience is the best teacher" is a reliable truth. And that teacher in nature enriches your life, awareness, creativity, cognition, and connections to nature, community, and spirituality. How do you let nature teach you?

Unlike the physiological results that demonstrate measurable hormone shifts and immune changes for Nature/Forest Bathing participants, each person's psychological benefits are unique. What fires your imagination differs from what fires or inspires someone else's. Nature and Forest Bathing is your invitation to experience and enrich your sensory perception. The benefits are endless.

Nature/Forest Bathing is an experience that can lead you to radical astonishment at what you discover and, sometimes, quite profoundly, what you have been missing.