Category Archives: overcoming life challenges

How being in nature is important for our health

With the current coronavirus pandemic, now more than ever is an important time to reflect on what is and isn’t helpful to our health.

Many of us will have spent much of this year (other than that important exercise time), being cooped up indoors.

‘So just how detrimental can this be to our health’?

It is proven that staying indoors too much actually affects our immune system as we lack the access to normal microbes that help to build our important defence system.

Staying indoors too much also affects our natural circadian rhythm that controls our innate sleep-wake cycle. This is because of the lack of natural sunlight that enables our body to adjust naturally.

Spending time in nature however has the opposite effect as being in nature naturally relaxes us, improving our overall mood and mental health.

One great example of this is forest therapy (shinrin-yoku) which in Japan is now offered as a part of health prescription and advised for overall health improvement.

Results have actually shown that two hours of mindful exploration in a forest can reduce blood pressure, lower stress levels and improve concentration and memory. 

Pretty amazing results for some enjoyable time in nature.

Whilst working with personal training and coaching clients we often do our session outdoors in parks and it always enhances the positive effect, as clients feel much more relaxed as well as reporting feeling more positive than when just in the gym or training at home.

Overall if we can make a concertive effort to spend more time in nature we will find it having a positive effect on all areas of our life by leading us to feel healthier and happier thus leading to a healthier society. Spending time in nature also provides a great sanctuary for when times get difficult, of which we all have these.

Please don’t just take my word for it. Give it a try for yourself. Try setting in your schedule regular times each week in which you can spend time in nature and see for yourself what a difference it can make.

Enjoy connecting with the beauty of nature and the natural sounds and you may even discover more about yourself.

‘Nature itself is the best physician’ – Hippocrates

Overcoming Fears

The greatest block can be a fear of what people do, say or think,
The greatest advice would be to just discard it,
Why;
People can say anything but in reality
It means nothing
Why;
Opinions change as much and often as the wind;
Yet the truth in your heart
The truth of who you are
That is what always outlasts
No matter how you are portrayed
Or what people say
It is the light that is within;
That always guides your way ❤

~ M.L Adams

It does not depend

It does not depend on another thing,

Whether to feel good, to feel bad,

Or to be as love

 

It does not depend on another being,

Whether to forgive or not;

It is a choice that lives solely in your heart

 

This is your freedom,

This is your choice;

To decide always how you will respond ♡

~ M.L Adams

 

The whole journey

When we look back over time on our journey

We sometimes see all the holes

All the bumps and roadblocks

Yet over and above it all, the journey is whole;

You see, without those holes,

Without those roadblocks;

You would not have the path you are on, 

You would not have all you have learnt

And most of all you would have not grown so much and come so far,

So when you look back today

Instead of seeing all the blocks and holes,

See the whole, 

See all of you;

Be all of you

Honour the whole journey

Honour the whole you ♡☆♡

~ M.L Adams

 

 

Journey to Gold

As you look back with a tear in your eye
To see how your journey unfolds,
As if the road ahead was somehow foretold
Yet all this you could never have known;
That step by step the journey you took, would always lead you to gold
And that gold is where you never thought to look,
As all along on this beautiful journey you had it with you;
Which only makes the gold all the more beautiful♡

~ M.L Adams

You already made it

Too may fakers out there,

Telling us how were gonna make it

When all they want to do is break us

All the fakers are just takers telling you where to go,

Sending you round and round in to the next trap door,

So why not instead kick them in the makers!

Or  forever spend your time seeking and waiting

Forgetting where the treasure really was all the time;

It is and always was right there inside

So go ahead simply create your way,

You already made it;

There is nothing to find ♡

~ M.L Adams

Expansion

Learning, growing, deeply flowing
Letting go of all that got in the way

Being you
Always true

Seeing how it is,
You’re not here to impress;
You are here to expand

To always grow,
Continually flow

Finding your way,
Come what may
Where nothing will stop you

You’re finding your balance
So all sides are even

Drop all expectations
As they will too

It works both ways man,
Adapt and flow 💗

~ M. L Adams