Friday, May 12, 2023
There are a great many benefits in hiking. One goes for a walk, they often do it for the physical benefit, but there are many levels of engagement and satisfaction when one goes out hiking.
It is meditative. It can help bring stillness to your mind and spirit.
It is invigorating. It can energize you mentally and emotionally.
It is contemplative. It can help inspire your thought process.
It is an integration with the natural environment. It can bring Nature into you through all your senses, especially sight, smell, hearing, and touch.
It is inspiring. Each of the above, alone or in combination, can bring you to places you had not previously been or even dreamed of.
It is social. Walking with a friend and/or meeting other people out hiking adds other dimensions to the experience, building closeness and/or community even if in small walls, sometimes in large ways.
It can increase your sense of wonder. There are a multitude of places you can go to hike, each of which can be a tool to literally blow you away with beauty. The beauty you see is a reflection of the beauty within you.
Anyway, I took these photos of flowers on my hike! Quite a bit of life in a dry soil environment!
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