Try this lazy hack to improve your wellbeing with your dog 💛

Birdy O'Sheedy

Jun 9 • ☀️ Community Circle

Do this before your day starts:

Before emails.

Before work.

Before the world starts asking things of us.

A few minutes outside can do a lot.

This lazy hack is about standing barefoot outside while absorbing the sun on your face. Most of you are outside with your dogs anyways, so why not enhance it?

Use it to become healthier, calmer and more grounded.

💛 Morning light helps regulate our circadian rhythm.

💛Time in nature can calm the nervous system, especially if we ground ourselves and touch the earth.

💛Dogs remind us to slow down, notice, and return to the present moment.

And totally embrace who you are in the moment without making life complicated (hence the bathrobe, my puffer jacket that smells of dog slobber and treats and has lots of balls and a tug stored away, crazy hair and general feral creature vibes 😜)

Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky often speaks about how humans are one of the few species capable of turning on a stress response simply by thinking about the future or replaying the past. Meanwhile, the dog beside us is usually just investigating a smell, enjoying the sun, or rolling in the grass.

Chronic stress can have significant effects on the brain and body over time.

Maybe that’s one of the everyday gifts our dogs offer:

A reminder to come back to right now. Authentic but connected to life.

Tiny ritual. Big impact. With feral vibes in my case 😜

Much love,

Birdy

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Try this lazy hack to improve your wellbeing with your dog 💛