I am amazed at how quickly the peacefulness of a mountain hike or a day at the lake can be stripped from you, as your enter back into your life.
It's such a struggle to recall that experience when the stress, that sent you searching, is still there. I always hope I can hang onto those feelings and channel the memory. The further I get into life, worry seeps into my mind and body. Stress consumes my thoughts and worries of work, money and relationships grasp me tightly. So tightly, I have trouble recalling the moment.
It's lucky for me, I live in a place, where I can reach outside my door and find it again. Sometimes, I lose my peacefulness and it takes time to remember where it was lost and where it can be found again.
There is nothing more powerful than restoring the soul by talking a walk under a canopy of trees, with the river flowing beside you and your breath keeping time with it.
Sitting on a fallen tree looking around, hearing quiet movement, pulls that stress right out and carves out some mental perspective.
I just wish I could hold on to that feeling more often. I will keep trying to find that moment and that memory and hold it closer to my soul to block that stress.
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