Nature offers a perfect setting for recreation and more. Instead of just unwinding and detoxifying your mind from your numbing routine, you can also get to know yourself better. This is what meditation is all about.

You don’t have to subscribe to any particular belief system to be able to meditate. You don’t have to memorize prayers or repeatedly utter ‘the spoken essence of the universe’ (the Hindu and Buddhist ‘om’). It’s a simple means of self-rediscovery without the complicated philosophies, theologies and myths.

Just sit comfortably and think about what you did wrong and what you did right. Think about how to make things better, about what makes you deeply happy. The last part may seem tricky, as we tend to accumulate layers of wants that we often mistake for goals that lead to happiness.

Perhaps it’s best to think back well into your past. What things made you happy as a child? If you can remember them, you might find your prized acquisitions and honorifics dispensable.

Think of your beginnings. And what better way to ‘live the metaphor’ than to meditate among nature’s offerings during the season of beginnings – spring.

Meditating on a cool spring day perhaps sounds like something you haven’t done before. Do it this time.

Gaze at budding flowers and the leaves of grass turning green; at the drops of dew on the tree leaves; at the birds coming home to fill the air with their lively twittering; at the puddles of water after a short fine rain; and take in the fresh smell of everything coming back to life.

Steal away from the city. Ignore the malls. Find a safe place in the woods, a spot on a secluded beach, a scenic perch up a mountain, a good hideaway near a babbling brook or a singing waterfall, or anywhere that doesn’t remind you of work.

Each day in spring should be lived with what the season represents – hope. Hope for happiness. Hope that the best is yet to come. Hope for nature.

So skip the busy life as often as you can and be a naturalist. Don’t just read about Henry David Thoreau’s life at Walden Pond. Live bits and slices of it, too. Bring a camera or a sketch pad or just commit to memory the beauty you see.

Spring is only the beginning, really. You can enjoy nature well into summer, which may turn the jungle of concrete, steel and glass too hot for comfort. And would you want to miss the harvest and the colorful ‘adieu’ of tree leaves in autumn?

The thing is: you need to commune with nature every chance you get, because nature detoxifies. Nature brings us closer to our true selves.

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