Open the Window

Open the Window

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.