The need of outer and internal recharging stations
Evolutionarily, human beings were never designed to be permanently indoors and switched on as many people are these days.
By ignoring our biological need for stillness, we aren’t just getting tired—we are losing our grounding.
The ‘doing mode’ is a state focused on problem-solving, planning, and achieving. It mainly keeps us caught between the past and the future, mostly rooted in unconcious survival patterns.
The ‘being mode‘ is a state that focuses on accepting, experiencing, and allowing the present moment just as it is, without trying to change, fix, or achieve anything.
While the doing mode treats life as a series of problems to solve, the being mode treats life as a reality to experience.
Grounding, within our outside and inside world, can balance both modes.
Recharging may
relieve inflammation and pain,
improve psychological resilience
reduces stress levels, prevents burnout or ‘decision fatigue’,
support the health of our heart and lower cardiovascular risk,
prevent or treat chronic autoimmune diseases,
provide better sleep
improve mental and emotional health,
assist with physical and psychological wound healing,
improve endocrine function and bone health,
And maybe best of all, it deepens our feeling of belonging, joy and presence.
This all supports our continious growth, maintenance and development within all areas of our lifes,
Some tips to recharge outdoor
Be open to daylight: mal-illumination is as worse as malnutrition.
Walk barefoot in a natural environment like on damp or wet grass, wet sand at te beach or on unpaved paths and moss in the forest.
Walk along ankle-deep water of the sea, a river, a lake, or swim
Feel the rain, the sun, the wind on bare skin.
Try Forest-Bathing, the Japanese practice of walking slowly through a forest, engaging all your senses, inhaling deeply the benefitting air.
Choose a quiet spot in a natural envirement and observe all you can see, hear, feel, and smell.
Practice yoga, chi qong or taichi in nature, or sketch or paint in nature.
Gardening with bare hands in the soil.
Dare to hug trees, or maybe less ‘weird’, sit at the feet of it, leaning to its bark.
Camp in nature.
Cloud spotting by laying on your back on grass or moss, or at night, watching the stars.
Watching sun-set and sun-rise.
Wear special shoes that allow contact with the ground; apart from leather, most materials insulate.
Some tips to recharge in- & outdoor
Clothes
When you need clothing, go for materials made from natural fibers—such as linen, hemp, cotton, bamboo and wool—and, if possible, choose organically sourced options.
Bamboo and cotton both are produces with a lot of toxic chemicals and for cotton a lot of water is needed.
In addition to their breathability, these fibers possess a healthy energy frequency, which support or balance the energy of our bodies.
Linen and wool have the highest frequency, followed by hemp and biological cotton which are both close to the frequencies of human bodies.
Keep your feet warm, (not hot or cold).
Food & Drinks
Easily digestible organically grown food gives energy and warm to luke warm herb teas.
Fermented food, food prepared by steaming or short cooking is easier to digest than raw food.
Some tips to recharge indoor
Slow down all activities, also in walking through the house. And when active, give attention to one activity per time.
Store phones, tablets, and laptops on their own place, and use them for their intended purpose and not when they ‘call’ your attention.
Journaling: note down three small moments you felt gratitude, love, or contentment and relive them; move one by writing down some reflections of the day. If needed, you can als list the things you don’t want to forget (a so-called braindump).
Taking a shower or footbath is a way of dusting off the daily worries, if any, a kind of soft detox.
Let the space embrace: rituals that may support the feeling of welcoming yourself can be using a special place for lightning a candle, using an aroma lamp to warm some relaxing oil like orange, lavendle.
As long as it is not a duty, routine or must, you can use all kinds of relaxing exercises, such as soft movements or stretching to let go of tension, gentle yoga-flow etc.
Laying Buddha: Lay down on your back with your legs straight up to the wall. Put your hands on your belly and give without any affort, attention to your outbreath. Make a soft noise with it if it feels good. (This posture and breathing relaxes the nervous system in minutes).
And, of course, not to forget: any method of meditation that relaxes you, which can be active meditations as well, to let let go of stress, worries, negativity, or overactivity.