What You Do

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What you can do during your solitude time (whether walking or stationary):

• - Maintain the intention to delve deep into your surroundings
• - Maintain the intention to experience tranquility
• - Give your complete attention to your thoughts feelings and actions
• - Give your complete awareness to nature, the elements, the location
• - Become aware of your emotions at the time (how does the time/place make you feel)
• - Experience meditation and emptiness, or you might do the opposite
• - Explore the surroundings (ok to use a camera without causing too much a distraction or disturbing the tranquility)
• - Explore the nature around you (look, touch, examine your surroundings as you please)
• - Clear one's mind
• - Take time to be thankful for what you have or for this present moment/experience
• - Commune with the elements or spirits of the land,
• - Become aware of the elements
• - Be with one's self
• - Recharge your (human) batteries
• - Zone out
• - Zoom in
• - Breathe
• - Develop a heightened awareness of natural elements around you (that you can take with you and experience daily)
• - Enjoy sounds of nature
• - Experience tranquility
• - Practice qigong or tai chi
• - Leave/Take a symbolic gift if that helps you have a better experience 
• - Feel goosebumps 
• - Melt into the wind
• - lose yourself in the sounds of nature
• - Ground yourself
• - Simply relax and get fresh air in a quiet calm manner
• - Read
• - Experience relaxation
• - Enjoy a mini-vacation
• - Commune with the nature spirits, or pray
• - Be Happy!!! 
• meditate,
  be alone in nature,
  clear one's minds, or not
  breathe,
  practice breathing exercises, yoga or qigong etc
  explore nature,
  zone out, or in
  empty the mind, or
  to give one's complete attention to one's thoughts and emotions at that specific location and time
  pay complete awareness to nature, the elements, the location, or
  pray to god/s godess/es
  ponder questions
  ponder nature
  ponder sciences
  commune with the nature spirits
  pray
  read
  take a nap
  ....
  you get the idea, you get to spend this time doing what you want to do. (Make sure you read the What We Do page for more details on what you can't do)

All the above done in a quiet, respectful and as private-as-possible manner that doesn't distract others within the group. no smoking or strong perfumes or loud noises allowed. Give others in the group what you want to be given (space, quietness, respect, privacy etc..)


Please:
- Don't be the cause of any distraction.
- No electronic devices that beep
- Mute your phones - and dont talk on the phone - txting is ok. If you need to take a call please walk away form the group especially if during solitude time.
- No noises, no strong perfumes
- Treat your solitude time as sacred time and make sure others' have the chance to experience this.
- Do to others as you would have them do to you
- Give each person enough room, space for their solitude time and respect privacy
- Don't be the cause of any kind of pollution to the environment or atmosphere especially during the solitude time.