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Three Ridiculously Simple Ways To Let Nature Improve Your Life

Wherever you live, whatever your situation

Andy Taylor
4 min readAug 28, 2021

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The benefits of interacting more with nature are so plentiful and powerful, and yet our first instinct when we get even a few minutes to ourselves is to head for the couch and a screen.

Involving nature regularly day-to-day is easier than you think. Even tiny actions done regularly can drastically improve your life more than you realise.

These 3 suggested activities are laughably simple, but I bet if you do them, you’ll feel better…

1. Look Up At The Sky

The easiest and simplest of the lot. We live so much of our lives with our heads down, or at the most, level. Watching the world come at us, full pelt.

Think about it, when is the last time you looked up at the sky? We just don’t do it unless there is a real reason to, but trust me, it helps.

Looking upwards, you immediately take the distractions of the world out of your field of vision. Buildings, roads, people just disappear. Instead you see empty space and plenty of light.

You access a small feeling of escape instantly. Even in the middle of a city, look up and you get away from the feeling of being hemmed in. Just stretching…

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Andy Taylor
Andy Taylor

Written by Andy Taylor

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