ARE YOU TRYING TO GET ENERGIZED VIRTUALLY OR NATURALLY?

How Do You Actually Energize Yourself?

Have you ever paused to notice how you truly energize yourself?

Yes, it feels emotionally uplifting to scroll through beautiful images. Friends on vacation. Breathtaking photos of flowers, mountains, pets, or people doing something extraordinary.

Technology makes it easy to stay connected. It allows us to witness moments we might never physically experience.

However, I find myself asking a deeper question.

How much are we subtly replacing direct, embodied experience with virtual ones?

As an international author, speaker, and wellness consultant, I understand the importance of staying connected to a virtual audience.

I enjoy it.

I value it.

I respect its role.

Yet after spending six weeks on the Big Island of Hawaii, something became undeniably clear.

Living outside.

Sleeping outside.

Eating, moving, breathing, and simply being in nature.

I recognized how quietly, over time, I had drifted.

Not abruptly. Not consciously.

Gently… into modern living and technical media, and away from the most effortless source of real energy available to us.

Nature.

What struck me most was a moment of honesty with myself.

I had not been fully practicing one of my own core teachings.

A teaching that was deeply embodied more than fifteen years ago when I completed the

Woman of Courage course with the experience-based international leadership program Outward Bound.

After one week in the wilderness, I remember feeling more energized, more competent, more connected to myself, and more connected to the world around me than ever before.

That was not motivation.

It was coherence.

Nature did not hype me up.

Nature regulated me.

This is why connecting with nature has always been a central message I share with my clients, readers, and audiences.

Not because it is poetic.

Because it is practical.

When we spend significant time in nature, the nervous system settles.

The body remembers its rhythm.

Energy returns without effort.

However, modern life makes it remarkably easy to disconnect.

We move from home to vehicle.

From vehicle to building.

From building to another building.

We buy food from buildings instead of the earth.

We stay tethered to devices designed to capture attention, and we slowly lose contact with our most natural source of vitality.

Nature is not a luxury.

Nature is our original power source.

So here is a simple invitation.

Smell a real flower growing outside instead of admiring one on your phone.

Even better, place your hands in the earth.

Plant an herb.

Plant a flower.

I picked up organic seeds yesterday, and something subtle and profound shifted.

With the energy of the earth moving through my body again, I noticed I no longer needed my usual daily green tea to feel awake and alive.

Spring is here.

A season of renewal.

And the outdoors is calling.

The question is simple.

Will you answer the call to reconnect with the living world?

Or will you stay busy on your phone while the most intelligent, energizing system on the planet waits patiently for your return?