Almost everyone knows that going outside is important. However, that doesn’t make it an easy thing to naturally fit into life. However, once you’ve experienced the positive impact that a lot of time outside can have on your wellbeing, you might be enthusiastic to try and make the effort anyhow – which can be difficult when you have so many obligations that take place inside.
Still, making the outdoors a bigger part of your life is a very achievable goal, and after those initial adjustments are made, you might find that you wonder why you ever thought it was so difficult to begin with.
Local Natural Spaces
In an everyday sense, getting outside can become especially difficult when you live in a city or a similar urban environment. Ironically, this can be the exact kind of situation where someone in your position might feel as though they deeply need or crave these kinds of natural escapes, which can create a troubling and frustrating trap. However, the first thing that you might think to do could be to get a sense of local natural spaces that you can explore easily. The closer, the better – there might be areas near your home that you hadn’t even considered before. Parks and recreational spaces might be green, but they can also lack the more natural element that some people look for – meaning that you might want to instead turn your attention to woodlands, cemeteries and other such spaces.
Natural Holidays
When the weekend rolls around, however, or when you have more time to work with, you can begin to think about getting farther away from where you live to really immerse yourself in nature. There are so many famous natural spaces and national parks in any given country that you might already have your destination planned out long in advance – whether it’s right around the corner or a whole journey away.
For many, the idea of a natural holiday immediately has them thinking of camping – but the camping lifestyle isn’t necessarily for everyone. Therefore, in order to meet that kind of experience halfway before you decide whether or not you want to jump further in, you might explore the option of luxury camping tents. This preserves the basic experience of camping while still giving you access to luxuries and comforts you associate with holidays.
An Interest in Nature
When you feel like you’re forcing yourself to operate in a way that you don’t actually want to, you can sense the resistance from your body – even when you know it’s something that’s ultimately good for you. A common example of this is exercise – how you feel great after the fact, but every single time you think about doing it, it feels like a slog that you’d rather avoid.
Spending time outside can be something that you really learn to love, but if you feel as though you’re having to force yourself into it every time, you might not be opening yourself up to what it offers. If that’s the case, developing and nurturing an interest in nature might help you to become more curious about it. Of course, it’s difficult to just ‘become interested’ in something, so it might be worth thinking about a particular area that interests you – such as birds, plants, rivers – and using that as a point of origin. Not only can you start to learn more about these, but it can help to guide and structure the time that you spend outside.
Natural Work
All of these suggestions so far do have the consistent theme of revolving around your free time, however, which is something that might ultimately not solve your central problem. If you feel like no matter what you do, you’re unable to escape the fact that you have to spend the majority of your time in an office with fluorescent lights in the middle of an urban environment, it might be time to seek out a new line of work. Fortunately, while it can often feel as though this kind of work is impossible to escape from, there are a wide variety of options when it comes to working in natural spaces – meaning that you have a lot of room to engineer your existing skillset into that kind of work. However, you might also just prefer to start from scratch, and identify a career path that appeals to you and work out how you can get into that from the entry level.
