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Finally Finding Time To Breathe...
It has taken a lot of courage to realise that the life I was living was not providing me with the connection I needed with nature...nor did I feel how I wanted to be feeling. The fast paced world, full of all consuming technology, and timetables, and protocols...along with being a mummy to twins, it just became too much... I had forgotten to consider my body, my mind, my soul and what it needed... I needed to be taken back to nature.
As an artist and photographer, I am constantly drawn to and compelled to embrace pattern, tone, contrast, texture and colour. Dandelions and ferns, repeated pattern and fractals. It is clear and scientifically proven that these calm the mind.
Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales. They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop.
"Feet on the ground, head in the sky"
- This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) Talking Heads
It is now time to slow down a little, listen, grounding with the earth beneath my feet.
The effects of grounding (earthing) on inflammation, the immune response, wound healing, and prevention and treatment of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4378297/
"Research has shown that when people view naturally occurring fractals in nature, it increases the alpha brainwave activity in their brain. Alpha waves are produced when people are relaxed and they are linked to physiological health benefits, and these benefits can be measured even when fractal patterns are only viewed for a short period of time. Alpha waves also have a positive effect on concentration and attention span. This might account for why Kaplan and Kaplan’s Attention Restoration Theory suggests that spending time in nature, and around naturally-occurring fractals, can have such a uniquely restorative effect on us, both cognitively and mentally."
I feel all this, and it is so evident within my being when I have been in nature