Hello everyone. I would like to share my experience in the forest today with you guys!
And by the way it's me again who is absent all the time due to my depression and OCD. Everything is getting worse and I am so afraid I will not be ready for my semester starting this autumn!
Anyway, I am experimenting with mindfulness as a way to be present and sense my sorroundings instead of thinking about the past and future and all the worries. I heard that it is kind of healthy to walk barefoot because it helps with sensing the environment. So today I went to the forest and as I approached an area with pine trees and no grass I took off my shoes and socks and felt the spongy soft surface below as I walked. But after just a few steps I was like: How does anyone do this! My soles are too sensitive and all the small branches, leaves and pine needles actually hurt quite a bit! It wasn't soothing at all! And then I looked at my soles, all dirty. So I was like, at least I want to take a sexy photo of myself barefoot sitting on this stump so I can use it here on TMF!
I believe I have an obsession with taking selfies as a part of my OCD Maybe because I feel so insecure about myself/gender identity. But anyway, the photos were really bad because I was so uncomfortable being barefoot
But the worst part: As I was leaving (once again wearing my shoes!) a woodtick was walking on my lower arm! How horrible! That disgusting creature carrying lymes disease (which I once had but was cured in time)! Oh god no! I went home on my sore soles and quickly took a shower (all that forest dirt was so difficult to get off my soles!). Then I examined myself (with help) and found another woodtick already snacking on me! Luckily we had a woodtick remover
So to sum it all up: Walking barefoot isn't healthy at all and definitely not suited for mindfulness!! At least not for me! Maybe my soles are too sensitive which is also what is making them ticklish.
Hope you like my story and maybe some of you do like walking barefoot? Do you guys think that maybe tickling could be used for being in the present instead as it is kind of a sensation as well? BTW I hope I posted this in the right place as it isn't actually tickling related.
And by the way it's me again who is absent all the time due to my depression and OCD. Everything is getting worse and I am so afraid I will not be ready for my semester starting this autumn!
Anyway, I am experimenting with mindfulness as a way to be present and sense my sorroundings instead of thinking about the past and future and all the worries. I heard that it is kind of healthy to walk barefoot because it helps with sensing the environment. So today I went to the forest and as I approached an area with pine trees and no grass I took off my shoes and socks and felt the spongy soft surface below as I walked. But after just a few steps I was like: How does anyone do this! My soles are too sensitive and all the small branches, leaves and pine needles actually hurt quite a bit! It wasn't soothing at all! And then I looked at my soles, all dirty. So I was like, at least I want to take a sexy photo of myself barefoot sitting on this stump so I can use it here on TMF!
I believe I have an obsession with taking selfies as a part of my OCD Maybe because I feel so insecure about myself/gender identity. But anyway, the photos were really bad because I was so uncomfortable being barefoot But the worst part: As I was leaving (once again wearing my shoes!) a woodtick was walking on my lower arm! How horrible! That disgusting creature carrying lymes disease (which I once had but was cured in time)! Oh god no! I went home on my sore soles and quickly took a shower (all that forest dirt was so difficult to get off my soles!). Then I examined myself (with help) and found another woodtick already snacking on me! Luckily we had a woodtick remover
So to sum it all up: Walking barefoot isn't healthy at all and definitely not suited for mindfulness!! At least not for me! Maybe my soles are too sensitive which is also what is making them ticklish.
Hope you like my story and maybe some of you do like walking barefoot? Do you guys think that maybe tickling could be used for being in the present instead as it is kind of a sensation as well? BTW I hope I posted this in the right place as it isn't actually tickling related.
