Listen to Thom read the introduction to his latest book "Walking Your Blues Away" here.

quote:

I WISH to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that.

Henry David Thoreau, Walking (1862)

Walking in nature is therapy, especially for those who feel, and, I suppose, for those who also tend towards seeing tragedy in life -- as a guy by the name of La Bruyère once observed the feelers tend to do, while thinkers see life as comedy. The continuity of nature feeds that deeper need of the feeling sensations some of us like to experience and explore -- that deeper rhythm the comedians, combatants, and the television commercials tend to disrupt.

As Thoreau once wrote in one of his great works:

"I went to the woods because I wanted to live life deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach...
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to put to rout all that was not life and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived."


I cross reference that with Socrates:

"the unexamined life is not worth living."

To me, this examination, "deliberation," involves much more than mere thinking.

quote:

Walking in nature is therapy

..... and then there's just walking anywhere, my experience, or in Thom's version walking with NLP.

I can just imagine those ancient hunters tweeking their submodalities.

And yes, i read the whole book just recently. An interesting spin on NLP that brings it down from the clouds of NLP hyperbole but alas remains firmly grounded in speculation, myth making and selective reasoning. I did enjoy it though.