This is like a meditation practice. It's about presence at the end of the day. And nature can be a meditation practice. It's doing a similar thing. Because when you're in it, you start to sense yourself more. You feel your sense more. You become more aware. And this is exactly what's happening when we're really in our art making.

We're present.

We're more aware of what's happening to ourselves,

how we're feeling, because we have something that we're looking at

that we're making that's coming out as we're feeling

and we can see ourselves better. And this is something that also occurs in nature, right?

When you're not surrounded by a million buses and cars and noises

and you're more solitary and you're more just in nature,

it's so crazy, but you can feel yourself more.

Hey, everyone, welcome back to the Art to Life podcast.

I've been thinking a lot about health and vitality and energy and just really noticing

those in my own life.

And one of the things that I've realized that I think you might relate to

and has been a game changer for me in my life is nature.

I mean, I know that in my art, this is what is for sure inspiring it.

But just in terms of understanding the connection of nature and

emotional openness, health, vitality, and creativity, there's a lot here. And I think it's so

easy to overlook the importance of nature and being in it and how you stay in it and what happens.

It's like, why does it feel so amazing? So my hope here is just, I've been kind of researching it

and thinking about it a lot because I spend a lot of time in nature and it's just something that

if I don't, I'm not able to pull off my art, really, and or anything, my energy, just everything depletes. So why is that?

And my hope for this conversation is that this might prompt you to dip back into nature. I think

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