🌿go & be in a place with plants & trees for 15 mins
🌳You'll inhale plant oils(phytoncides) from foliage
📉your stress hormone(cortisol) will drop significantly
Many of our brain pathways evolved to motivate us to forage for plants-they're still very active
🌿go & be in a place with plants & trees for 15 mins
🌳You'll inhale plant oils(phytoncides) from foliage
📉your stress hormone(cortisol) will drop significantly
Many of our brain pathways evolved to motivate us to forage for plants-they're still very active
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Prior to the Christian church taking over January 6th as Epiphany or 3 Kings night, this was the holy night of Berchta, goddess of winter, witchcraft, and animals.
Prior to the Christian church taking over January 6th as Epiphany or 3 Kings night, this was the holy night of Berchta, goddess of winter, witchcraft, and animals.
"And this our Lord God send you a mery Christmas, and a comfortable, to your heart’s desire."
🖼️ Wikimedia Commons
"And this our Lord God send you a mery Christmas, and a comfortable, to your heart’s desire."
🖼️ Wikimedia Commons
The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back.
A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year.
Fiat lux!
📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social
The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back.
A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year.
Fiat lux!
📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social