Take A Hike! Now. Your Mood Depends On It

EVER STRUGGLED WITH DEPRESSION OR ANXIETY & FELT YOU COULDN’T AFFORD ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES? In today’s show, I’ll share how one study reveals TWO amazing alternative that’ll cost you hardly anything.

Key Points in this Episode
[06:42]   We’re meant to be in nature
 [07:59]   The Schumann Resonant Frequency.
 [09:34}   Your Brain on Hiking!
 [10:54]    Two things that reduce the symptoms of depression

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Transcript

 ITZ_EP115_Take A Hike! Now. Your Mood Depends on It

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

nature, frequency, depression, anxiety, stress, hike, study, functions, mountains, plants, healthy, grateful, city dweller, Schumann resonance frequency

Dr Brian G Brown  00:56

The mission is simple: to help high achievers naturally eliminate emotional and physical obstacles, so they can optimize their life for higher achievement. 

Welcome, you just entered the Genesis zone. Good day. Good day. Good day. And welcome to the Genesis zone show. This is Dr. Brian Brown. Thank you for taking time out of your busy Thursday morning to join us. 

Have you ever struggled with depression, anxiety, just feeling generally stressed out all the time, or maybe even just kind of feeling blue, but couldn't quite explain it? And then you turn around and you start looking at your options and options. And you want to do something in the alternative medicine realm, but you feel like you just can't afford it. 

Well, in today's show, I'm going to share how one study reveals two amazing alternatives for helping to manage and reduce the symptoms of depression and anxiety, that cost you hardly anything. 

So, let's jump right in. Last week, I had the distinct privilege of participating in a five-day advanced training for the subconscious remodeling technique that I've been studying now for the past several years. Now, this training was held at a beautiful retreat center in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee on a 47-acre property set right on the North Carolina, Tennessee line that has functioned as a horse rescue farm for the past 27 years. 

Literally, everything over there was in full bloom. And living in the city as I have for quite some time. I've forgotten how bright the stars can be when you don't have light pollution from city lights. This time of year, the mountains are perfect for hiking. It's absolutely beautiful. And that's what I did while I was over there, along with attending this conference now, along with a lot of other people at the conference, who some decided to hike, some decided not to, we hit the trail. 

There were dozens, hundreds of other people on the trail as well. I mean, it was just super packed the day that we went but it was well worth it, going up to the top and finding a waterfall and along the way and getting to sit there for 30, 45 minutes and then continuing our journey on I took some pictures. Of course, I did. 

You know I just can't help trying to capture the moment. But then you realize you're hugely disappointed because the camera just doesn't seem to do nature, any justice. And I was reminded that the best photos in life are made with our eyes, these two beautiful things that we've been gifted with. So, I took a lot of those eye pictures, as I like to call them. I reflected as a hike along the way up there and back how good I felt physically. 

Then I was reminded of how great I felt mentally and how many years that had been since I took my last antidepressant and had to depend on that to make me feel quote unquote normal. With a heart full of gratitude. I expressed my gratitude out loud sometimes as I was walking. I was grateful for nature and the beauty that surrounded me. I was grateful for a body that moved freely for healthy ankles and knees and healthy hips and back. healthy neck healthy muscles and ligaments and tendons. Hard long eyes, ears and  don’t forget a healthy nose to smell those sweet, sweet wildflowers that were growing all in the mountains, I mean all different kinds. 

And I've hiked in the mountains before, and I saw different flowers this time that I've never seen. The information flooding, it's through my senses was almost too much to bear, a virtual cornucopia of sensory explosion, so to speak. Yet I'm drawn to the people who may never experience the wonder of nature, like I experienced this past week, my heart goes out to those who can't or don't want to experience it. And I wish for them to be able to experience it firsthand, as I did when I was a child growing up, riding the miles and miles of horse trails, around the 6100-acre water conservation leg I lived on as a child. 

Now not for the sheer experience of being surrounded by such beauty, of course, but for the healing in your soul and your spirit, and your physical self and your emotional and mental self that being in nature brings. Like I said, my heart goes out to people who don't want that or can't experience it because they're geographically locked in to where they are they financially can't afford to travel. My heart goes out to people like that I recall vividly was when I was in the throes of my depression for 16 years as an adult living in a metropolitan area, that I longed to experience nature, like I did as a kid, I remember those memories, I remember thinking if I can only get back to nature, and I just didn't have the energy to do it. Something deep inside me knew that it was a healing elixir if you will just to be called back there just to go back there and experience that but with the busy aspects of life, the busy nature of life, and academic training and family life and this, that and the other and financial commitments, the escape to nature eluded me for a long, long time. 

At the time, I didn't see the connection between my depression and the lack of exposure to being free in the wild as I was as a kid, leaving the city had stymied me it held me back emotionally and physically and spiritually. No matter how much of a city dweller you may be, I don't think of us any of us were intended to live without exposure to nature's beauty. Even if it's getting away to a city park and just spending some time lying down in the grass looking up at the sky. I don't care. We are meant to be in nature. Whether you believe it or not, whether you're afraid of bugs or not, whether you're afraid of poison oak or poison ivy or just prickly grass. We were meant to be in nature. 

And did you know that scientists have recently discovered that plants and trees actually have an audible communication language they in the article that I read, they talked about plants actually singing, and the pitch with which they sing. The frequency with which they sing varies based on how well nourished they are, how much water they have, how dry it is, how dry the conditions are. The drier the conditions, the shriller the screaming is in the plants. And of course, these are at frequencies that the human ear can't hear. But I propose that everything that generates sound is vibrational sound is vibrational, and on some level, we can feel the language of nature. In fact, I'm gonna back that up with some facts. 

Some scientists call this frequency of nature the Schumann resonance frequency, named after physicist Dr. Winfried Otto Schumann. And this frequency of nature, if you will, vibrates at a resonant frequency of exactly 7.83 hertz, on average. Now, here's where it gets really interesting. When your brain is in an alpha wave state, and your brain has different states of frequency that it functions at beta, alpha, Theta, Delta. All of these frequencies are different, some of them are experienced while we're waking. 

Most of them are experienced while we're asleep or almost in that half-awake, half-asleep state A Beta wave frequency is when you're intensely working on something Run, run, run, run, alpha wave frequency is when, let's say you're holding your grandchild or you're holding your child for the first time. And your brain is that super calm state on an alpha wave is that same state of brain functioning, that you're at when you're just about to drift off to sleep, or you're just waking up in the morning, that's usually when you're in an alpha wave state.

 Dr Brian G Brown  10:34

It simply means when you're in this state, that your brain is in a super chill condition, like you've taken an anxiety medication of sorts, and your alpha wave brain frequency, guess what it's doing? It’s functioning and operating at the Schumann resonance frequency of 7.83 Hertz. 

Imagine that our bodies on frequencies Xanax, if you will, functions at the same frequency as nature, the Schumann resonance frequency. It's why when you take a walk-in nature, you feel more at peace, more calm, more grounded, than you do anywhere else. Now, knowing this, all of this information that I've just explained to you and having come off last week hiking in the mountains, 

I started doing my research for today's show. And I ran into a new, randomized controlled research study. And I could not believe that it was a randomized controlled study, which is a very powerful study. 

And this study proved that two things can reduce your symptoms of depression that cost hardly anything:

1)    Surfing

2)    Hiking

 I don't know about you, but I'm landlocked. I don't live near any place where I can go surfing. But I'm surrounded by nature where I live, our town is small, yes, I do live in town. But I'm a five-minute drive from nature and significant nature. And I get there as frequently as I possibly can, because nature feeds me. 

But I run into people from time to time who tell me that they don't have the money to get their genetics tested and, and work with me to resolve their depression and anxiety naturally. And when I hear that I just smile, because I've always told them,

Listen, get out in nature, I've never really had any tangible proof in the form of a study. That isn't up till now. But I've always told them get out in nature, nature will change your life. Take a hike, take a walk. Okay. It's a totally free alternative. It's provided courtesy of Mother Nature. So, no pun intended, or maybe it is intended. 

The next time you get the blues, the next time you feel down, the next time you feel stressed out and anxious. I just want you to take a hike, go explore and walk in nature and rediscover yourself because that is exactly what's going to happen. If you want to know more about genetics that I mentioned. 

If you think that's something you want to discuss, please reach out to me at Dr. Brian G. Brown on Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn. I'll be glad to answer any questions that you have, as usual, most informed, most trusted and certainly most grateful that you spent this time with us today. 

Until next time, stay in the zone. I'm Dr. Brian Brown.

Here’s a good read that reviews the science of getting out in Nature from 2018: The 3-Day Effect By Florence Williams, available on Audible