What do I define as Nature Therapy Meditation?
Its simply to walk in nature, where there’s grass, plants, trees, and all natural resources in the geography.
How do I do my nature therapy meditation?
I look at all living things big and small. The trees, the ferns on the trees, the undergrowth, the shrubs, and bushes. As I focus on each living thing, I look at the details like leaves, flowers, fruit and stems. I may find insects and worms. Each living thing is complex as it has its own system to survive. How did it get its internal mechanisms? Who has the brains to invent such complex organisms? How did they come to exist? The mysteries of the earth are difficult to explain. Darwin said it was evolution of each type of organism. The Bible said earth and her diversity of living and non-living things began with God’s creations. I don’t dwell on the origins. I marvel at life; all kinds of life.
Who are we to worry about materialistic needs and wants, when plants grow independently without intervention? Wild animals live and die but they are survived by their off-spring, who continue the cycle of life. Their resources are limited to their environment, while we humans have the vastness of natural and borrowed help to sustain us.
Many of us don’t live among nature. I spent many years living in high rise apartments. My best contact with nature was during walks in gardens, parks, and beaches. The smells are different in gardens and parks. I often smell wet grass, and freshly cut grass. Where there are flowers, I would be getting their fragrances, especially from roses and jasmines.
I sometimes see large anthills at the beach, because the ants use sand for its construction. I look appreciatively at their multi-storey building. Ants and humans share at least one architectural aspect. The sight, sound, smell, and feel of a beach are generously overwhelming. I love the salty scent of the sea breeze and the sound of crashing waves. I take the opportunity to walk barefoot on the sand. If I see sea shells, I pick them up. Sometimes, I collect samples of nature to paste in my scrapbook. When I’m home and far away from nature, I’ll flip through my mementos and be brought back to the scene in a memory.
There’s nature everywhere. We live in nature. You’ll find your places to nature to walk into and marvel at.
During weekly walks, I enjoy looking at cultivated grass, carpet grass, wild grass and even the weeds along the sidewalk. They are wild, free and flourishing. I feel mentally, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually refreshed during my walk among nature. Tell me if you don’t get some relief from a foray into nature.
