Re-connect With Nature

Its a strange old world where we live in houses which are merely boxes in cities or towns, we travel in metal boxes called cars, buses, taxis, or on tin tubes such as the underground and rip apart anything to do with nature in urban conurbations to seemingly try to stop us connecting with nature and the open space losses prove this, but why?

Its a proven fact that people who connect with nature have lower stress levels and connecting with nature can take many forms, pets are a form of nature as even domesticated animals can retain some of their natural instincts and merely having a pet is proven to reduce stress

Campers generally have much lower levels of stress than people who fly off abroad for the three wek all inclusive holiday, but why? because those going abroad are moving from one false environment by flying in another tin tube and are forwaded to another fake or unnatural environment called the all inclusive, and live in this false environment and rarely venture out of it as everything they may want or need is at this false environment.
Campers travel to a destination, they choose that destination and if they dont like it they pack up and move, so why is it more natural and back to nature? in an alien environment our senses change and in a town, city, or other urban conurbation we rely mainly on our eyes to watch where we are going and to monitor the fixed obstructions such as buildings, while the moving obstructions could be other people on a congested pavement, a busy road full of vehicles, or for items such as traffic light controlled crossings we can use to cross a road safely and not get hit by those vehicles. This is followed up by our hearing, if we hear an unnatural noise in an urban environment we generally look quickly, process the data from our eyes and either react or carry on, campers generally rely less on their eyes as they are not in an urban environment full of man made obstructions and don't need to rely mainly on their eyes as other senses come into play, their ears become attuned to different sounds such as different birds or creatures as they never hear them in towns and its something different, in towns you get the smell of diesel and petrol engines fumes, at specific times you get eateries firing up and the smell of their cooking and this equates to TIME, campers smell the dew covered grass in the morning, they smell the air as the camping environment allows them to do it, and they smell many other things such as soil in damp conditions, timber in a wood or forest, animals either directly as they dont use body sprays to mask their odours, and the smell of their droppings as they go where they stand.

Stress can therefore be by design in a town or city.

Stress is also induced by time, people get up at a specific time so they can get into their car at a certain time, or to catch a bus at a specific time to get to work at an exact time, they work until a specific time where they can take a break for a specified amount of time before going back to work until another specified time, lunchtime, where they take another break for another specified amount of time until returning to work for another specified time called the afternoon break, then return to work for a specified time, the end of their working day. The return trip home then follows the same time principles in reverse.
Women may have other time constraints such as having children at school for a specified time and be back at school at a specified time to collect their children at a specified time, they may cook the families evening meal at a specified time and the family may sit down to watch TV and their favourite programmes at a set time, they send or put the children to bed at a specific time, and go to bed themselves at a specified time only to get up again the following day and begin the process all over again.

Camping removes the natural stresses of urban life as you are not reliant upon a couple of senses, it enhances all of the senses and effectively spreads the load across all of the senses, it removes the stresses of time as you can go to bed when you want to and get up when you want to, you can eat at whatever time you like and most stresses are removed.

Is it just camping? no, if you are connected with nature you can sleep outside during the better weather, you are out in the fresh air as it is always cleaner at night anyway and your senses adjust to this even though you may not realise it, you rely less on your eyes and more on your hearing, it may be dark but you can hear that hedgehog rustling in the hedge bottom and not need to look at it to know what it is, during the early days of summer you can wake up to bird song and know which birds are singing and differentiate between the different species. You smell the different smells and feel natural materials such as wood, and it all reduces stress.

You've hit the nail on the head, Assassin. There are hundreds of men and women who spend their time throughout the year wild camping. The following video is by a great chap called Tom,  who spent last Christmas one just one of his very funny wild camps. Enjoy...

YES with out doubt there is a lot to think about. Over the last few years I look forward to retirement & have seriously questioned why am I stressed out so much over all, & life in general & why/what am I actually working for?

Good post assassin.