Nature is an amazing healer

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Nature is an amazing healer...



I just got back from a week at Rolling Rock Cottages (these are the pictures you see to the left...it's the where I was staying and of the view I had every day). I won the weeks stay courtesy a good friend and associate of mine...Sue Sutcliffe at A Web that Works (Sue held a contest for her clients and as luck would totally have it...I ended up winning) and when I won, I had to admit, I was grateful, but on the other hand was worried. I am not one that takes on change as easily as I thought. A week away at a cottage meant change, it meant being out of my comfort zone...it meant, "what the hell are you thinking dude...you just won a week at a cottage...get moving, packed and go"!!!

So Monday morning Mr. Cityboy here, got in the car and headed north...not in my two by four truck, but my Toyota Yaris...and despite my initial fear and hesitation, I wouldn't have traded the week away for anything!


Here is what I had the pleasure of experiencing during my stay at Rock Island Lake, just north of Parry Sound and South of Point Au Baril. (3 hours north of Toronto)

I saw sunrises on the lake...with mist floating along, I saw gorgeous sunsets not on the lake but along the shores of Georgian Bay, in Parry Sound. I saw stars at night!

You don't see stars at night in the city, because there are too many lights on and we don't have enough darkness to allow us to see a beautiful nights sky.

I saw hummingbirds and chipmunks, snakes and frogs.

I got to really relax, journal, meditate read and take a load off.

I saw an outdoor concert in Parry Sound at the new Stockey Centre for the arts...the concert was on a deck overlooking the Georgian Bay!

I got to shoot hockey pucks at the Bobby Orr Hockey Hall of Fame(He is Parry Sound's favourite son)

I did two nature trail walks a day...went for a dip or two in the lake, sat outside most of the day and breathed in the clean air, sat in the sun, BBQ'd my meals...(oh and grill your corn on the cob on the BBQ...it's really good that way). Drank a couple of beers a day...

I got to swat big honking flies and I got mosquito bitten, I got back to me this week at the cottage and realized upon coming home, that nature is truly a gift, it's a true healer...

Where else can you experience such joy then watching a sunset along the water?

Where else can you have tranquility and peace of mind as you walk along a nature trail for 30 minutes...

Where else can you have the solitude with yourself as you over look the water, the rocks, the trees and hear the birds chirp and see them fly about at 6:30 in the morning?

If you don't think that nature is totally giving then think again?

As a business coach, radio show host and facilitator, I take on a lot in my work...but this week away allowed me to totally "Chill" right out.

Some of the perspectives I got from this magical week away is to stop wearing the mask of perfection...and just be...be in joy, be in peace, be happy. I think mother earth wants to just enjoy all that there is and be at one with it.

Oh I know what you're saying, "Have you gone cocoa-banana's Cohen"? Are you a tree hugger now? Well maybe so...because there are some things you might want to integrate in your life in order to access what nature gives us so willingly and for free each and every waking moment...

1) Begin to take a planned time out in your week to experience a nature trail walk. There are many of them in and around the city

2) Head north and just explore once a month...see what you can find and discover.

3) Meditate each day, take a 10 minute time out for you...just for you

4) Commit to walking or exercise...don't just talk the game, do it...and it starts with a 10 minute walk...which you increase each day.

5) Read more

6) Buy flowers for yourself

7) Go easy on the planet

8) Break your routine...at least one day a week...get up when you want to get up, have beer out in your backyard, listen to great music that uplifts and nurtures your soul, stretch out in the air of the morning, leave the watch off your wrist, don't turn on the television or the computer, have lunch at 2 pm and dinner at 7:15 pm...watch a movie DVD or two, just break your routine at least one day a week or every other week!

9) Go hug a tree...I mean it...if you haven't done this...try it...just make sure no one is watching because they'll think you've lost it...(but who cares really...we just know you're being your true magnificent self)

10) Just enjoy life...allow what is, let go, let go of judging things, people and experiences. Laugh more, have fun, laugh at yourself, marvel at life and the bigness of it all...and lastly cherish everyone in your life...because the one other thing I learned being in nature at a cottage is...you never know when you might have to take on a bear in the woods!

Now go create an amazing life!


Cheers/David


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