Enhance your Life by altering your Surrounding.
the people
who know me well will agree that i have
been
a visibly anxious person i was very
eager
or concerned to do something or for
something to happen
but now i have found a way that has
helped me
to bring down my anxieties
i found a way for us to help tune our
mental radios
to just the right frequency and focus
on what really matters
don’t you have those days when the mind
keeps switching between the past
and the future the what if and the what
could be
so i’m going to tell you what i learned
by shifting to the mountains from the
city
how it changed me and the things that
you can try no matter where you are
in 2018 completely exasperated by my
monotonous life back in city i decided
to move to the himalayas and start a
life full of passion and purpose
i co-founded a unique eco stay in a
remote village
at the height of 2700 meters with the
most amazing view
that we could find i thought if i
started living in the moment
and created a space where everyone could
come together and enjoy nature
it would be the perfect way for me to
live an amazing stress-free life and
start living in the moment
the stuff of dreams right well
not exactly in fact on the contrary
it made me even more anxious than what i
was back in the city
i mean look at this house that we had to
renovate
i was completely out of my comfort zone
in a new place where
every task felt quite literally like an
uphill battle
managing the work on site solving
problems that i had no idea about
and the expectations i had set up on
myself to create something
really beautiful added to my anxieties
i had thought that changing my location
would change me automatically and
clearly
that wasn’t happening the paradise that
i had imagined in my dreams
was now turning out to be my worst
nightmare
what do you think went wrong i was still
the same me
just living in a more beautiful place
the change had to come from somewhere
else
so as we were renovating the house
during what turned out to be the worst
winter of the decade
i was staying there with one of my
co-founders while we were taking care of
these three cute puppies
it’s not so much that year that multiple
landslides
damaged the only road that led to our
site
we had no power for days and the
temperature would drop to -10
freezing the only water supply we had we
spent our days trying to
somehow manage for water drop by drop
as we waited for the storm to pass
but it was not all that bad either
it was a sort of a forced detox where we
were forced to
stay indoors and we were thrown back in
time unable to do any work
in such extreme moments of adversities
i finally found the peace i had come
seeking
i realized that the beauty of staying in
the wild
was when you had no option but to
surrender completely
your senses in nature and to be honest
as time passed my brain would still find
ways for me to go back to my ways of the
city life
working hours on laptop countless
watching countless tv series movies
online
endless scrolling on social media the
usual stuff
but i had felt that moment of clarity
and started seeking more ways to
experience it
one thing that did work in my favor was
that because of me
being able to shift in a remote location
i cut down
on a lot of distractions automatically
for example
i didn’t have to drive to work every day
i couldn’t go out to eat or party
or go to theaters or malls that this led
for me to have more time for myself
which i utilized to dissolve the
boundaries between what was going inside
my head
and the serenity that i saw outside
i started doing yoga meditation and
working out with a lot more interest
as it felt so much more effective
when i intended to connect with nature i
started going on short hikes to explore
the jungles around me
i read book about mindfulness meditation
and practiced what i learned
in the wilderness
i tried to see the beauty from my camera
lens
to capture the movement and emotion that
i felt through it i gazed
upon the starry nights with a sense of
wonder
and awe
it took me nearly two years after
shifting to the mountains
to find the perfect mental balance
and to feel more focused and
clear-headed
i realized that the real change had to
come from the inside
but honestly it would have been
impossible if i didn’t have this
opportunity
to completely immerse my senses in
nature
it’s a very simple idea by clearing all
the urban clutter
physical and mental distractions i was
able to clear the cut clutter inside my
head
being in the mountains just pushed me
out of my comfort zone
which gave me this new perspective
and there is plenty of research to prove
how healing nature can be
scientists in uk gathered evidence from
over 140 studies involving 290 million
people and prove the health benefits
that nature has on humans
connecting with nature increases our
intellect
as you can clearly see it also makes you
more capable
of dealing with stress and anxiety
biologically
we’re built better to function with
nature than with more technology
that’s why nr of walking in the park
will surely
help you feel much better than an hour
of
instagram or facebook would ever do
please understand i’m not saying for you
to leave
everything and move to the jungles but
there are few things that you can try
no matter where you are
i’ll do a small experiment i’ll play a
small clip
and i would want for you to imagine what
is this sound
is it a bird or is it an insect
well that was actually a trick question
because this was the sound of the most
common squirrel
found almost everywhere have you
actually ever tried listening to the
sounds of the birds
and animals outside your house and try
to figure out
what species they are what color they
are
what kind they are they say
to find the silence and peace inside
you try and hear through all the silence
and seek the silence outside
so if you can immerse your
senses in nature completely next time
you go out
and try and actually hear try doing
walking meditation
bare feet on grass and bring your
attention
to your steps every time your mind
wavers
bring nature inside your house clear the
clutter and make space for plants that
you can take care of by yourself
grow some herbs take some time out in
nature completely
even if it is for a weekend plan for an
escape into the wild
you can even come to my place
we need to stop getting stuck in this
endless loop
of social media and news that is not
even new
do you know that you can delete your
instagram and reinstall it
when you need it i do that all the time
it’s amazing how free that it is i’ve
hidden my whatsapp
deep in my abs where my eyes can’t go it
turned off all notifications
and i only go to these apps when i have
time for them
these apps are meant to take your
attention
in the times that we’re living in we
have a thousand reasons to feel
a lot more anxious but if there is one
thing
that i can say for sure is that if
you’re looking for a peaceful mind
start by dissolving the boundaries
between you your mind
and your body and nature i
hope this helps for you to be more you
to tune your mental radios to just the
right frequency
which is of this movement make it a
point to connect with nature
every day because after all aren’t we
all
born to be wild
you