Let’s have a habit to love nature

Aristotle said: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” We all have habits, they say Habit never goes. If you remove ‘H’, ‘A Bit‘ remains and if you remove ‘A’, ‘Bit‘ remains. And when you further remove ‘B’, ‘It’ still remains.

Let’s first understand what is a Habit?

Definition of habit

How true the habits we have, form us and make us an individual with distinct qualities. We often talk about people having good or bad habits, odd or unique habits. So, the habit is something personal to an individual which is an identification too. Some habits we form by choice rest are all-natural.

SO, if I have to think of one powerful habit that keeps me going, it will be difficult.

I have many habits that make me, what I am

But in growing years of life one habit has given me the positive feel, the refreshing aura to sail through the day.

The habit is firstly cuddling my kids in bed every morning when I wake up and then peep out of the window to soak myself in nature. Talking to nature to get inspiration and positivity for the day is my daily habit.

It may seem odd that what kind of habit is this? But it’s true, not a single day I can start without spending the first few minutes after waking up and then sipping my mug of kauphi or Tea beside nature. I feel nature talks to me and answers my queries when in doubt. I have experienced that nature gives answers in its own unique way. I am lucky enough to stay at a place that gives me an abundance of nature and life through my window that helps me think, explore, create, and keep going. Not a single day is gone when I am not inspired by nature, the hills, the trees, the 5 elements of nature that keep me telling that never stop or give up hope. The lovely eucalyptus trees, the base of Nilgiris that grow tall and stand strong and erect tell me to keep my head high and achieve success.

A small or long walk in this nature just inspires me and refreshes me. How can one not form a habit to just step outside when the view is so refreshing. The above image is just in front of my house and the below one is when I turn right from my block of 4 houses. Well, when you live beside tea gardens you get habitual to the morning cup of tea also with the view.

The block of houses beside the road, well yes that’s my present abode and thus nature is my habit. I can’t think of anything daily that inspires and refreshes me.

This habit is addictive as due to freshness around me I have started taking long walks and that is beneficial to my health, what better than filling my lungs with fresh oxygen gifted by Nilgiris. What best thing to start our day with? This not only is one habit but staying with nature helps build more great habits.

Waking Up Early

This nature motivates me to wake up early, isn’t it another good habit, it’s all because having tea with the chirping of sparrows and view of sunrise can’t be compared to any other thing on this earth.

Yoga & Meditation

My surroundings helped me to form a habit for daily yoga and meditation as the calmness of tea gardens and the depth of valleys calls for inner peace.

A habit for positive thinking

I ensure to get inspiration form Sun which rises daily with the same energy and feeds my mind with positive thoughts. These early morning thoughts become a base for the whole day. This I do by reading, watching motivating and knowledgeable as well as spiritual stuff rather than watching unnecessary gossips, or negative news. In Morning if one can listen to devotional music during this time it really helps as mantras, shlokas have different power in them.

Do something, not everything.

I ensure I do and think a positive thing daily. Be it giving water to courier guy or feeding sparrows and pigeons on the terrace. It’s in our hands to make the air around us positive with our deeds and thoughts.

Embrace life, don’t resist it

These Nilgiri hills, the valley has taught me to embrace life, the beauty of nature, the beauty of natural elements and their existence. I have learned to live my life the way it is and indeed it is beautiful when you see it with my eyes. I have a daily talking and Walking friend too, whom I look forward to daily and talk with, sometimes discuss too and it patiently listens to me. It’s a beautiful Tree on my walking route and my daily TreeLove. It looks like inverted Lambda, the symbol of wavelength, it also says its a “Y” which says YES to everything and stands tall spreading positivity. Lambda is just a symbol or variable – variable is not consistent or having a fixed pattern; liable to change, and so is our life and thoughts. It’s subject to change and which is not consistent and we need to adapt and accept the change.

It’s a Sitka spruce tree

That’s my TreeLove and this tree has said hello to me when I go for walks, has heard my inner cry when I was sad, has seen me laugh in my happiness too. It’s my best friend and I feel a very deep connect with trees and plants and It’s always refreshing to spend time with them. I always feel a part of beautiful nature, I feel they also talk to me as I speak with them.

With this, I go back to my habit that really keeps me going… After all, this nature only had inspired me to choose my blog name which is dear to me.

Okay, readers time to go back to talk with nature out of the window and get motivation each day to live, to explore, to question, to stay positive and to be thankful.

This post is a part of Blog Anniversary celebrations of Thoughts by Geethica Turns 3 co-hosted by Zainab and Ashvini.