I’m back in New Hampshire now from my second home in Provincetown, and haven’t been geocaching since I’ve been back. It’s a busy time: we completed our first-ever book promotional video for OYH_Geocaching (we’ll probably look at it years from now and cringe because we’ve gotten better, but for now I’m pretty happy with it); I’m speaking at a conference in New York next week; I have another book deadline looming. All this has meant that every spare bit of time has been spoken for – so no geocaching for me.
I didnt realize just what a de-stressor it is until I stopped doing it, no matter how temporarily.
I may be sounding like a broken record here, but the reality is that there’s nothing like being in the woods, or in the dunes, to restore a sense of one’s place in the world. Miracles both large and small abound in nature, and feeling and seeing and hearing and smelling them all is liberating. The rising sense of panic that I sometimes experience when I look at my to-do list evaporates silently once I’m outdoors; peace is restored.
You don’t have to geocache to discover that peace and rid yourself of that panic, of course. A hike works. I suspect that many of the activities in the Open Your Heart series work. It’s a good reminder to all of us to keep doing whatever it is that opens our hearts, keep doing it regularly, so that we can keep touching that peace and that magic.
– Jeannette Cezanne
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