Rewild Your Mind: Use nature as your guide to a happier, healthier life

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Are we experiencing an unintentional human rewilding? Either way, it’s time to start taking nature seriously. What is human rewilding?

Rewild Your Mind by Nick Goldsmith, Jason Fox | Waterstones

The complex interdependence between us and the creatures with which we share the Earth is explored in the New York Times best-selling novel Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy. It tells the visceral story of a woman's quest to reintroduce wolves to the wilds of Scotland. Inti Flynn, a biologist, arrives in the Highlands with her traumatised twin sister and 14 grey wolves. In the process of reintroducing the wolves to their natural habitat, Inti hopes also to help her sister Aggie heal, after horrific events that drove them both out of Alaska. After all, the idea of renewal and rewilding works both ways, says Craig. "I think that whilst many of the young people in We Have A Dream understand that our natural environment has an amazing capacity to renew, self-repair and regenerate, their message was that humans had relied on this for too long, and we were now at the point where the Earth had been pushed too far and it could no longer regenerate. The hope coming from the book is not that our planet will recover if left alone but that here were a young generation who are fighting for big change. The movement towards rural living in the western world seems to be a sign of the times, with an exodus from urban life, and people seeking a rustic idyll, a simpler existence – and in some cases embracing the idea of "slow living", an antidote to fast hustle culture. And the lure of rural life is inevitably even more acute in spring and summer, when there is a sense of renewal and expectation in the air, and as, the poet Philip Larkin famously put it: "The trees are coming into leaf/ Like something almost being said". Nothing will ever be better than spending physical time in nature and/or with other fellow humans. Yet the reality of our fast paced lives can also leave us feeling inadequate that we do not spend enough time outdoors, bringing awareness to this can also cause unnecessary judgement on ourselves.Perennials bloom throughout the year, providing a myriad of sources of nectar for pollinators at crucial times. I’m happy to share! In fact, my wish is that people who go through my courses start something similar on their own — I have a vision of many mentor-based schools like this throughout the world, where people can spend a month or a year making some major changes in their lives.

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