A Sit in the Woods.

I felt the need to escape to the woods for just a few minutes today. As I sat down between two logs, I felt the damp earth beneath me and listened to the trickle of a nearby spring. While the wind whooshed gently through the trees, I thought to myself that I need to do this more often for my sanity. I need maintenance time and not just go when I feel like shit.

I am 500 yards behind work, but as soon as I enter that tree line, the anxiety and noise that is constantly going around and around in my head like a hamster on a wheel, subsides. I can breathe deeper and think clearer. Time is always an issue but I need to find at least a few minutes a week to go into the trees by myself and re-center. I truly love nature but the woods are my religion, my escape, and my sense of calm in an otherwise crazy world.

Sometimes I want to be the rushing water finding its way through the path to a destination it knows nothing about. Sometimes I want to be the tree, silent, grounded, and just taking in what is going on around it.

I have a tendency to get too high and too low with stimulation. Always on the go, trying to please others, to push my limits, to be the best at anything. Sometimes I am very selfish with what I want and need to check myself when my thinking is only about me.

I’ve been in a spin lately and I never realize it until I am at an extreme. I love many parts of my life and I need to look at the positives I have and be grateful. I need to cast out the negativity, and I need to find the time to just sit in the woods and do nothing but be totally there. I need this to keep my center and be happy with life.

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