Being on the land, we know, and we know without even neuroscience or any studies we know, it’s very it’s a very powerful healing agent. Just like for some people being in the water is very healing. For some people being in the mountains, different climate zones or different places are very, very healing to different people.
People of evolutionary science have showed that that one of the best things for the brain is to be in a place where you have to use critical thinking skills, you have to use movement, you have to use all your senses, you have to call into all your senses. Your hearing, your smell, your sense of balance, you’re seeing, all these different kinds of things have to be activated. And we know that happens on the land. When people are moving across the land, they’re stepping over stumps, they’re ducking under undergrowth, they’re dodging anthills, they’re watching out for wasps and they’re stepping over water and they’re smelling the flowers.\u202fOh, do I smell this flower? Smell that flower? Do I smell this berry or whatever it is, all these things are happening.
So, this dynamic activity is happening in the body and the brain at the same time. So that’s the first thing, that land heals in that particular kind of way. We don’t exercise like our ancestors exercised because our ancestors never exercised. Every day was, every day was just movement, hunting and gathering and moving across the land and spending time contemplating in different parts of the land. What’s best, though, is being on the land and wild areas where you’re moving, you’re ducking, you’re having to use all your sensory experience to go through the land and you’re activating all these different kinds of senses.
The land has this this capacity to again, bring us alive in so many ways in the brain in terms of our evolution, in terms of our ancestral cultural knowledge and our lifestyle. And being out on the land is a much more powerful healer and much better for the brain and the body and the movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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