The value of a brisk walk can probably not be overestimated! Even a short walk can bring meaningful change to our physical, mental, and emotional state. So make it a goal to make time for a walk today – even if it’s only five minutes.
And while you’re walking, try to focus extra attention on just one of your senses at a time for a a minute or two.
Smell all of the scents there are, pleasant or otherwise, trees in bloom or chimney plume.
Feel the way the ground meets your foot, sense the breeze as it moves through your hair or across you cheek, and then moves limbs or leaves or dust around you.
Hear the sounds that surround you, some near and some distant, some natural, some human made, birds, laughter, horns honking, and perhaps even the sound of silence.
See the light and shadows play across your path. Watch as clouds slowly morph from shape to shape.
And then if you can, allow yourself to be engulfed in all of those pieces of the world around you. See, feel, and hear a moment as you breathe deeply.
Please do make time for a walk today, and as I do I will be thinking of you.
