WALKING AND EXERCISING ON DEWY GRASS IN THE MORNING
Not everyone may find it easy to get up early in the morning and walk, run or do their exercises on the still dewy grass. Perhaps you live in a town with narrow streets and would find it inconvenient to go outside and seek out a green meadow before breakfast in order to do a little morning exercise. Still, it would be a most refreshing activity for all the many town dwellers who are normally locked up in their rooms and offices, before actually having to surrender to the hustle and bustle of a busy day.
How much to be envied are those who still live close to nature, who in the early morning carry out their natural exercise by making hay or doing general farm and garden work. Even though they may not realise it, these people are conditioning their bodies all the while. To them it is nothing but their work, part of their daily routine. It would be a first-class restorative to take a holiday on a farm and get up early and join these people in their early morning chores so as to regenerate our bodies which have been wearied and worn out during the working year. Think, too, of the opportunity you would have of learning from nature, helping you to adopt a more optimistic view of life.
Early morning exercises require deep-breathing, and this will help to drive out the remaining traces of weariness from our bodies, enabling us to start the day’s work refreshed, even more so if we are able to walk on dewy grass. Sebastian Kneipp was one who called attention to the effects of dew, and it is beneficial to our health if we make use of nature’s gifts. Civilisation has robbed us of much of our freedom by forcing us to live in cramped houses and towns, but nature teaches us little things that can make up for this loss to some extent. Observing these lessons can help us to maintain a reasonable physical balance while having to accept the hustle and bustle of everyday life.
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