Hello, hello, hello, welcome to the Mark Rose podcast, mobile edition, because I'm taking you on a hike with me.

I wanted to share with you some of the thoughts that are sort of flowing through me.

You know, I don't know that I can express with words what it is that being out in nature

does for me. And, you know, I grew up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. And I wasn't really into hiking

when I lived there and, you know, I snowboarded. But I was not really immersed in nature.

I was very much part of sort of what we do, disconnect from ourselves,

disconnect from being connected to the earth, being connected to the cycles of the seasons,

being connected to gratitude because when you

put your feet on the ground and you're in a forest or you're in a desert or wherever you are,

you're by a lake, you're even in a park, even in a city.

There, when you're in the moment and you're mindful about where your feet go and you're just present

and you forget about all the stories we've been taught you know that you've been taught about what

you have to be and how much money you have to make and that like is that what life is about

creating more and getting more and having more money

and having more things. But do you see how that's sort of the trick, right, is to pull us away

from ourselves so we can end the earth and so we can step into more consumerism? Because what

we're trying to buy or replace is the very thing

we've left behind, the connection to greater than us. And so, you know, I hope that wherever my

voice finds you right now and you could feel tons of gratitude in your heart and really connected

to everything. And you also might be in fear and you might not tons of gratitude in your heart and really connected to everything.

And you also might be in fear and you might not know who you are anymore and you might not know what's going on and, you know, all the things.

And just turn back one within yourself through meditation, through things like a podcast like this one but you really

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