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Optimal Health Daily - Fitness and Nutrition

2537: Four Simple Living Benefits From Spending A Little More Time Outdoors by Robin Shliakhau with Becoming Minimalist

Optimal Health Daily - Fitness and Nutrition

Optimal Living Daily LLC

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.4671 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 2537: Exploring the transformative power of nature, Robin Shliakhau's article captures how intentional outdoor activities can simplify life and enhance well-being. Through a personal narrative of a camping trip with family and friends, Shliakhau reveals the profound physical and mental health benefits and the creative inspiration and simplicity nature offers, encouraging readers to embrace the outdoors more frequently. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.becomingminimalist.com/outdoors/ Quotes to ponder: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." "What must be done before dark? What can wait? What is pointless? What is weighing us down? What can we live without?" Episode references: How to Raise a Wild Child: https://www.amazon.com/How-Raise-Wild-Child-Earth/dp/0544705297 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Optimal Health Daily, episode 2537.

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Four simple living benefits from spending a little more time outdoors by Robin Schlocka with

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Becoming Minimalist.com.

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And I'm Dr. Neal, your host and narrator.

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Welcome back to Optimal Health Daily, or O.HD, where I act as your narrator of popular

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health and fitness blogs,

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and always with a bit of my commentary at the end.

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Now, let me keep this intro nice and short,

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so let's get right to today's article and start optimizing your life.

0:34.0

Four simple living benefits from spending a little more time outdoors by Robin Schlocka with

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Becoming Minimalist.com

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Quote

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I went to the woods because I wish to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life

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and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discover

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that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau.

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When you're out in the wild and daylight is fading, you get stuff done, fast.

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You strip down your routines to the bare necessities and you figure out what's really important.

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You might find yourself rethinking

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how you do things. What must be done before dark? What can wait? What's pointless? What's weighing us

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down? What can we live without? This was my reality when my family and our friends, nine of us

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all together, went on a week-long camping trip.

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During our pre-trip planning, we chose a location that would have little to no connectivity.

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