Sometimes, you just need to feel the rain
May 16, 2008 by Kelly
This morning, I was completely exhausted. Coffee didn’t help. I felt like I was moving at half-speed, at best. I figured by the time I got home, I would just fall over and go to bed for the night.
But a lot of water and some fresh-squeezed orange juice got me feeling like myself again, to the point where I wanted to run when I got home from work. But we were expecting thunder storms, the sky was darkening quickly and the muggy stickiness outside made it seem like a thunderstorm was indeed on the way. So, instead of a run in the neighborhood, I jumped on the treadmill and had a great workout.
I stepped outside, into the air that had cooled off just enough, with a light rain falling and smelling the clean smell of earth and rain. I began to stretch, to cool down, and the more I was out in the lightly falling rain, the more stress and anxiety and worries just seemed to wash away. I began to do sun salutations in the rain, getting my hands dirty and muddy, letting the rain wash me clean of everything except feeling alive and connected to the earth.
Sometimes, you just need to feel the rain on your face, feel the dirt on your hands and just breathe in the clean smell of grass and dirt and rain and evening, and just know that at that moment, everything is ok.
Hey Mermaid!
Spoken the right words… Nothing like the smell of wet earth in the rain… It should be termed as a kind of aroma therapy. I can’t wait for the rains, they do make a great stress buster. A workout or a walk to the nearest eating place, getting some hot kebabs in your soaking wet clothes and laughing your head off!
I love being out in the rain (as long as it’s not crazy texas thunderstorm rain ya know). I’ll walk in it. As a child I used to play in it.
I totally understand how this soothed you.
The power of mother nature cannot be overstated. Rain can clense the ground and our souls. Sunlight is a wonderful spiritual disinfectant. We grow stronger when we let the earth touch our lives and we become weaker the more we allow ourselves to be removed from nature through our paved streets and concrete buildings. The basics of life are often forgotten yet still the most important lessons to learn.
That’s beautiful.