Everyone’s always looking for a way to relieve stress and I just happen to know what the best stress reliever in the world is, but find it interesting that it’s needed to relieve this thing called “stress”. What is stress anyway? Is there some tree out there that produces “stress” and then it gets all over our bodies, like some sort of pollen, and makes us feel stressed out? I’ve always had a hard time defining what this thing called stress actually is, but the bottom line is that I do have the cure for it.
So, what is this cure, you’re probably asking. I’ll give you a hint. Emerson and Thoreau knew all about this stress reliever over 100 years ago, and it hasn’t changed one bit since then. The cure to any stress that you may be feeling in your life is a little thing called nature. I think Albert Einstein hit the nail on the head when he said, “We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” In what Einstein said, is the answer to why being in nature is such a stress reliever.
Simply taking a walk in nature takes your mind off of whatever it is that you’re so worried about, and whatever you’re worried about is what’s causing this feeling within you, that we all call “stress”. You can be feeling as if the worlds coming to an end, and the sound of a bird singing can stop that feeling instantly. The perfection and beauty of nature are the cure for whatever stress you may be feeling.
Just take a walk. Go outside and take a walk in nature. The act of doing this will relive your stress. If you live in a bustling area, where nature is hard to find, get up early in the morning when everyone else is asleep, and take a walk. Just being outdoors and taking a walk will relieve stress. And remember the things of nature, the birds and squirells and such, don’t feel a thing called “stress”, and you don’t have to either.
Let the God like qualities of nature envelop you and remember where it is that you came from. We all came from the same place and that place is called nature. IN the immortal words of Henry David Thoreau, “Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”
Trevor Kugler is co-founder of JRWfishing.com He has more than 15 years of business experience and 25 years of fishing experience. He currently raises his 3 year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country ..Montana.