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Open the Window

{A Written Practice}

Open the Window

Allow fresh air to circulate.

Sometimes all you have to do, at first, is open the window. Just a crack. Allow the fresh air to circulate. Have you noticed that many modern office buildings have no windows that you can open? They are hermetically sealed off from outside. The San Bushmen still living their traditional lifeways, pretty universally acknowledged to be the best trackers in the world, among the most nature connected on earth, with a continuous oral history that goes back more than 100,000 years, won’t set foot inside a house. They say that when people start going in houses they get weird.

Americans, by contrast, don't seem to want to leave the house. We are inside, on average, 93 percent of the time. Bushmen: totally nature connected, total mental health positives, incredibly physically fit, outdoors 100 percent of the time. Americans: nature disconnected, mental health not so much, physically fit not so much, outdoors 7 percent of the time. You decide.

At a subtle sensory level, circulation of fresh air is something that we can start to attune to. If a meeting gets stuck, open a window. If the energy isn't flowing in a space, open a window. Allow the interior of the space to come back into contact with Nature. If you aren't sleeping well, consider cracking a window. Let the air circulate. As an elemental force, fresh air has a job. Allow it to serve.

Related Practices:

Related to Learn to breathe and to Savor Delicious Aromas. Related to elemental nature awareness practices. Related thereby to Feng Shui.

Who taught us this?

Perhaps a more useful question is "Who taught us not to do this?" Clearly in places with extreme temperatures it makes sense to keep windows closed, but we don't we design living spaces that blend indoor and outdoor?

Who taught us this?

Perhaps a more useful question is "Who taught us not to do this?" Clearly in places with extreme temperatures it makes sense to keep windows closed, but we don't we design living spaces that blend indoor and outdoor?

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