When walking the path of nature, how many obstructions do you come across?
Fallen branches, protruding tree roots, oversized rocks, ditches, water ways…
And yet, when you’re on a hike—none of this surprises you. Obstructions are expected.
And so you carry on, weaving around, stepping over, ducking under—mindfully making your path forward without carrying any of the extra weight on your mind that might normally arise when an obstruction arises in your worldly path. And the experience is a joy.
Maybe this is a lesson we can learn from hiking.
Maybe we can expect obstructions in our day and look at them not as an irritation, but as an opportunity to overcome and explore. And maybe if we practiced mental hiking more often, we’d carry less weight on our minds and get further along on our paths.
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