What could walking in wonder do for your well-being?
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I remember a week-long hike with Alan in the autumn of that year on the Appalachian Trail as it wound its way through Virginia. In the beginning the watching was all large landscape and vistas. Over time the eye sought out the smaller and then smaller wonders: a decomposing log, the color of a fallen leaf, the chirp of a bird, a pile of feathers that stood witness to an owl hunting, the smell of fog, and so on.
What my partner Alan and I felt was a sense of the mysterious, a lack of words in the presence of something larger. I’ve never forgotten that sense of awe as we slowed from hiking to ambling to pausing. I remember feeling calm, ease, tranquil as we stood together in wonder - how each and every leaf, blade of grass, ray of sunlight was its very own individual creation.
I’ve come to learn that there are no duplicates in nature. All nature asks of us is to feel the wonder so we can bring it home to our own well-being.
Question: What could walking in wonder do for your well-being?
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Music: Mer’s Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron Music
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