The Nature Nurse, PLLC
  • Home
  • About
  • Online Workshops
  • SERVICES
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Disclaimer
  • COVID POLICY
  • Women's Nature Retreats
  • Home
  • About
  • Online Workshops
  • SERVICES
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Disclaimer
  • COVID POLICY
  • Women's Nature Retreats

Experience The Joy Of Nature Blog

Three Holistic Ways To Dissipate Tension

9/22/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
No matter where we are in the world today, we may be feeling rising tensions around us: whether it is a bombing in Syria, mass shootings in a mall or a peaceful demonstration that turns into a violent riot.  It can feel hard to escape what is going on around us or to us.  There are healthy ways we can cope and unhealthy ways. Here are three holistic modalities we can use to get ourselves into a calmer state of mind in order to better problem solve and avoid the hazardous side effects to our health that stress causes.
 
1. 
Awareness, also known as mindfullness: the simple act of stopping ourselves in a tracks to check in with how we are feeling and deciding is this how we want to be or do we want to invite something better, more helpful into ourselves.  For example: Anger gives us energy.  Think about the last time you were FURIOUS!  What did you do with that energy?  Was it productive or could you have channeled it in a better way?

​2.  Nature: One of my favorite modalities to calm down and reassess what is going on inside.  Taking a walk in green space has been shown to relieve stress.  Getting on, in, on top of or near water can achieve a state called, Bluemind.  A term created by Dr. Wallace J. Nichols.  Water is so powerful for our well-being that a new initiative,  Bluemind Rx, #WaterIsMedicine , was recently presented at the #OurOcean conference in Washinton, D.C and shared with over sixty countries.
Picture

​3. Energy healing: we are made up of a very complex set of interacting parts.  Energy being a very big one.  Growing information about how our cells react to different energy is showing that unless we are trying to run away from a tiger in the jungle trying to attack us, it doesn’t do us any good to be churning in negative energy.  Reiki healers, therapeutic touch and many other energy healing modalities can reset our nerve system.  Even drumming circles have been shown effective in taking a group of people and connecting their energy to a calmer, collective state.  This process is known as entrainment. 
​
There are a lot more options, more of which I will discuss in upcoming blogs.  In the meanwhile, maybe you want to try one of these if you are feeling stressed by all the chaos around us.  Even stopping for a few minutes to close our eyes and take some deep breathes will help. Imagine what a more peaceful, cohesive world we all could live in.

If you have a favorite holistic stress remedy you would like to share, please do in the comment section below.  The more we have in our healing toolbox, the better we all will be.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

      Subscribe to The Nature Nurse blog!

    Submit

    Archives

    March 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    November 2020
    October 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    September 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015


    Categories

    All
    Healthy Green Thumbs
    Nature And Children
    Nature And Health
    Nature Gifts And Shopping
    Nature & Holidays
    Nature Nurses
    Nature Travel
    Nursing
    Ocean
    The Magic Of Flowers Series
    Water Heals


    RSS Feed


    Follow me:
Terms Of Use   
© COPYRIGHT 2015-2023. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Privacy Policy