BushBasking

Imagine this, traversing through uneven maybe even uncharted areas. Negotiating the way. Even if having been there before, the environment shifts, changes, adapts and realigns. If not seasonal there is continual movement at play, growth and water courses shifts, possibly due to weather and impacts of people, animals and the ecology. Thus negotiating through these ever shifting “sands” there is the requirement to negotiate, this means being ‘on the ball’ . Every individual and together with guests, children and all will keep their eyes open and negotiate their way. It opens and broadens the visual perspective, while also sending endorphins through our system to be alert. This may be one of the reasons why we sleep so well in the bush. You are actually tired since accessing more of your bodies’ abilities demands a lot of energy. It is a bit like accessing different and more components of our mobile devices. 

I remember still being amazed by the vast array of tools these little communication devises have, besides making calls sending text messages, reading mail, books, showing us the way from A to Z etc etc. When we engage in the BushBasking activities we seek to open up to what there is around us. Open all of our senses to wear out the dormant ones. Once we start engaging the dormant senses, that have been dulled by our modern day lives, we get a feeling of satisfaction. That very feeling of being worried, afraid and excitement is what trigger a hormonal shift towards feeling satisfied with being. The essential existence does not require anything else but meeting the demands of feeling good. No external factors are needed, no shiny electronics, no large meals, no over the top sexual drives, nothing other than being with the self and the rustling of the leaves in the trees,  and a sunrise, or sunset, the smell of a campfire and the fresh smell of the bush after (or just before) the rain….