Nature provides the best place on earth for the ultimate in self-care.
Spending time with Mother Nature in the great outdoors helps to reduce stress, find clarity, and refresh your mind while invigorating your body.
Good self-care is KEY to improved mood,Ā reduced anxiety, and a good relationship with yourself as well as others.
I live across the street from a hiking trail by a creek, and Iāve found if I do about five laps of the trail by the creek, I can get in my 10,000 steps for the day, which is about four miles total.
I try to get on the trail as often as I can when I can and sometimes it takes a couple short walks to get me to my goal of 10,000 steps a day...
Andā¦
What Iāve found is that this is one of the ways I implement a daily habit called...SELF-CARE.
Which helps my mood, manage stress, and keep my āzen,ā as well as clear my head.
Meditate evenā¦
Not to mention, get the benefits of being surrounded by nature AND fit in some movement into my day!
Itās a win-win!
And...
Any life transformation you seek starts simply with desire. For me, it was a desire to undo the damage of sitting so much, to enjoy more time in nature, to have a goal that was easily achievable. I also came to the realization that no one else can move my body for me, and if I didn't set a goal I'd find a reason to avoid doing something I knew was important for my health.
The beauty of my own journey to 10,000 steps was that the benefits were far greater than I could have imagined. I now eagerly look forward to my daily walk or walks (sometimes I break it up into several shorter walks).
I wasn't prepared for how radically my life would transform when I decided to create a daily habit of walking/hiking 10,000 steps (or more). My moods improved, aches/pains/stiffness went away, I slept better, I lost weight (unexpectedly), my legs got stronger and more shapely, my heavy breathing diminished, my creativity blossomed, my patience grew and the list goes on.
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