Stress Management – Use Nature’s Therapy…It’s Right Outside Your Window!
Stress management therapy doesn’t have to be costly or complicated. In fact, sometimes it’s as close as the nearest open window.
Have you ever had difficulty opening your windows at home because they’re rarely opened and seem to have “grown” shut. Since we blast the air conditioning during the summer months and crank up the heat during the winter, windows have almost become obsolete—except for the natural light they provide.
This is unfortunate because on some occasions the most effective and readily available stress management therapy consists of some fresh air, sunshine and the sounds of nature that reside just outside your window.
Take the time to “set the stage” for some good old fashioned stress management/nature therapy outside your window.
Nature is Carefree
For less than twenty dollars, you can purchase a bird feeder to place outside your home or office window. Spend a few dollars a month on a bag of birdseed and enjoy the variety of birds who stop by to serenade you during breakfast each morning. Add additional seed in the afternoon and the “dinner crowd” will stop by for a song or two.
After awhile, you’ll be able to identify the birds by their unique songs. Even though they never stop working each day to find food, water and shelter, they always sing as if they didn’t have a trouble in the world. Remarkably, as you listen their songs, you begin to unwind and feel less stressed. Most of us would do well to take a cue from such carefree behavior.
Nature Makes the Most of Every Moment
Plant a butterfly garden outside your window or utilize container plants that attract butterflies. Enjoy their beautiful color and delicate grace as they playfully flutter outside your window. Sadly, butterflies live only a few days or weeks, but seem to make the very most of every moment of life. What you would do if you only had a few days or weeks left to live? What would you do? What prevents you from doing those things now?
Nature Just Wants To Have Fun!
Nature’s most playful “therapists” have got to be the squirrels. They hop around in the trees with reckless abandon. If they fall, they shake it off and jump back up in the nearest tree. They just want to have fun, but they know how to work hard, too. Squirrels tirelessly search for and store food first—but always find time to play. Now, there’s a good life lesson. Work hard–but schedule time to have fun. As silly as this sounds, I’ve never seen a depressed squirrel—and I’m betting when we learn to balance our “work-life” schedule, depression will become a thing of the past for us, as well.
So pull back those curtains, pry open your windows settle in your chair to take advantage of nature’s best stress management therapists. They’re right outside your window!
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