This is episode 1,198.

Welcome to your daily guided meditation.

And congratulations as you complete the final episode in our seven-part series.

How are you doing? Do you feel more connected to nature this week? Do you feel more connected to your true authentic self, your true inner nature.

That's the part we lose when we become distracted by overwhelm

and all the dramas in day-to-day life.

Well, I want to share with you in this episode a reflection

meditation that we do at the very end of each series. This allows you to

celebrate your

still experiencing challenges so that you can continue to pursue

to pursue all the areas you want to improve in your life.

And I want to share with you some wisdom from Dr. Andrew Weil. He's a medical doctor who also is a big proponent of

meditation and he wrote in his book spontaneous happiness

about the importance of connecting with nature. He says, we are creatures of nature and cannot enjoy optimum physical or emotional

well-being if we have too little contact with it.

He says, biologist E.O. Wilson

coined the term biophilia, which means love of life or living systems.

To describe this innate human need,

I believe it to be as real as our needs for love, food, sex, and community.

So this is what Dr. Andrew Wyle shares and it goes right along with what you have been exploring this week.

How your health, physically and your emotional health and well-being benefit from becoming aware of nature

and to watch as the seasons change and to notice the crevices and cracks and the furrows and all the different lines and

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