A short conversational segment from a YouTube video in which Ashok Gupta and a second speaker discuss using exposure to nature and simple changes at home to support mental health and neuroplasticity. Key suggestions: alter home environments to avoid anchoring illness (move furniture, redecorate), spend paced time outdoors or in bright public indoor spaces to gain natural light and fresh air, and use surroundings (riverbanks, gardens) as reminders of wellbeing.
Look at this beautiful nature around us. Isn't it so healing? When we're feeling unwell, we often spend a lot of time indoors. But the issue is that it keeps reminding our brain that we're unwell. Our bedroom in our home can become a reminder or an anchor for a lack of health.
Therefore, in our home, it's useful to move things around, put the furniture in different places, change the decoration and for a laugh, don't tell other family members. See if they notice. This all helps the mind to think in a fresh, new way. As well as being open to new possibilities, it supports neuroplasticity and the rewiring of our brain.
Secondly, in a very paced way, let's see how often we can stay outdoors. Even if it's just sitting in your garden with a thick coat if necessary. See, getting natural light can help restore our sleep rhythms. And we feel better anyway just being in the fresh air. Perhaps we can sit along the banks of a river to remind us. Now, if we can't be outside because of the weather, can we sit in a library or a coffee shop?
When we are in nature, it's relaxing because we're not looking for an outcome. Nature has no outcome that it wants in and of itself. Most things we do in life are about achieving or doing. But when we walk in a field, or on a beach, or looking at the trees, there's no end goal. We're just enjoying that present moment. The energy is very different. It's very healing and nourishing. Can we mimic that feeling in life in general? Will we give ourselves permission to just breathe and just to be. Sa.
