Why do nothing, when you can do something?

　

The Gaia theory states that the planet is a living, thinking, reacting organism. And if recent events caused by the polution of the environment affecting the climate is anything to go by, we can no longer be in any doubt.

What do we know about the landscape that surrounds us, as a tiny segment of the marvel known as Earth.

Many of us go about our daily business without a second thought to our surroundings and in cities any evidence of nature is often hidden, or ignored as we go about the frenetic world of business - survival in the modern world.

What happens when you go shopping?

What happens when you walk the dog?

Perhaps you are so preoccupied with the latest brands, the cost of living, paying your mortgage and the world’s tragic events that you simply don’t see, hear, or smell what is going on around you. In fact there’s growing evidence to suggest that the reason why we are all so stressed, often to the point of illness is that we are DISCONNECTED.

Don’t forget we are not a stand alone entity. We exist as part of the world around us. We are the world around us and if we ignore, or mistreat it, we are ignoring, or mistreating ourselves as well.

So isn’t it time you took stock and made yourself and the planet feel better? Yes if you feel better, then the planet does too!!!!!

There are some very simple exercises that you can do to re-connect:

1. Go outside the house, look at the sky, feel the climate, smell the air.

2. Buy yourself some houseplants, feed them, nurture them, observe them.

3. If you have a garden, or there is a common, or green patch nearby, go there, look at the plants, study the insects, listen to the birds.

4. Join a horticultural, forestry, gardening, or country walking organisation.

5. Nominate your favourite animal, vegetable, flower or tree. Make a study, get to know it.

6. Befriend a dog, or a cat if you don’t own one.

7. Read a newspaper, or magazine that relates to nature.

8. If you have a camera/ cameraphone start taking pictures of nature: gardens, plants, animals, insects, weather. Upload them to a social networking site, or something like Flickr.

9. Start talking to your friends about nature, rather than what is on the news, soaps or fanzines.

10. Don’t just go on holidays to lie on the beach. Go with a purpose to look at the natural world there.

11. Grow your own food.

　

In other words it is time for you to HUG THE PLANET.