“I hugged a very girthy tree!” Get off screens, write letters, and paint
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What personal experiences are shared about feelings of inadequacy?
I urge you today, if you're near a tree, to go and hug it. I think everyone's got an arty bone in them somewhere. We searched for the biggest tree we could find. It was a girthy old guy. This is going to be a curveball you didn't see coming. Harry Hill swimming. We should have an art club. Happy Place Art Club. Hannah is livid that people don't RSVP to plans. I get it. That usually lasts about half an hour before my true self emerges. And that true self is someone that doesn't like to leave the house.
Harry Hill is a...
It's apparently ripped. Hello everyone and welcome to Happy Place.
Why is hugging trees beneficial for our well-being?
I hope that you are good today. I'm in a relatively cheerful mood. Maybe you can tell because I'm wearing all red like a little cherry tomato. But I hope that we find you well and happy today. And if not... Don't worry, you will come out the other side of it. We're going to talk about things today that make us happy and not so happy as we have been doing. And there's some good ones. I want to kick straight off slightly self-indulgently with my own because we'll get to other members of Team Happy Place in a bit. But last night... I pushed through a sort of a bit of social anxiety, which I was feeling. I go through definitely periods of wanting to hibernate at this time of year. And yesterday I was feeling really fatigued and knackered and I couldn't deal with seeing other humans.
But I was and I sound like an absolute twat, even deliberating whether I was going to go to this or not, because of course I did. But I got invited to a documentary premiere at Windsor Castle yesterday.
How can painting by numbers help reduce screen time?
And it's this amazing documentary that The King has created all about the environment. And I think you can watch it on Prime pretty soon. And it's an amazing documentary. I loved it. And actually, I had a jolly evening. I was sat next to Hannah Fry, who I'm sort of mildly obsessed with. feeling like really stupid all night. Your insecurity starts peaking when you're chatting to someone really clever. Her brain is outrageous. But anyway, we had a little gossip. We watched this brilliant documentary and it's all about harmony and harmony in nature and harmony between us and nature. And there were several things that I liked about it. One was that it wasn't a documentary that put all the emphasis on us as individuals, like you should be doing better, you need to recycle everything, you're failing, you're ruining the planet.
That wasn't the feeling of it at all. If anything, it was certainly,
What are the social etiquette issues surrounding RSVPs?
His Royal Highness, the King, saying, you know, this is what I'm trying to do. And he even was saying, you know, in his small way, but the things that he's done for the environment are quite exceptional. If you watch this documentary, you'll see some amazing projects like Dumfries House, which is a great example of community and environment being intertwined. And looking at other projects globally where Huge amounts of land have been changed from arid soil to beautiful, lush, verdant, green meadows. It was astonishing and it was hopeful. That's what I'm getting at. It was a hopeful documentary about the environment, but it didn't exclude the horrors that we know exist and the decline and... climate change etc so me and my friend Claire the other day with this in mind because I knew I was going to this documentary had a really nice walk and it was sort of it was dusk I like walking at dusk the sun was setting you know as early as it is at this time of year and we were mooching through this very dense bit of woodland and Claire said I think she was sort of half joking she's like should we just go and hug a tree and I was like
I would love to go and hug a tree. I don't know if I've ever actually done it. It's sort of like, I don't know, perhaps seen as like a cheesy naff thing to do. I urge you today, if you're near a tree, to go and hug it. We searched for the biggest tree we could find. It was a
How can we revive the art of letter writing?
girthy old guy and we found this big old tree and we both hugged it and there was something so calming to my nervous system about wrapping my arms around this beautiful big probably you know 100 year old tree and just being near it it was so lovely and we take trees for granted we just walk past them on a walk don't even talk about them acknowledge them and they're doing all of this beautiful work the whole time communicating with other trees
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What personal experiences are shared about feelings of inadequacy?
0:01–0:35
2
Why is hugging trees beneficial for our well-being?
0:35–1:35
3
How can painting by numbers help reduce screen time?
1:35–2:28
4
What are the social etiquette issues surrounding RSVPs?
2:28–3:52
5
How can we revive the art of letter writing?
3:52–5:14
6
What humorous moments arise when discussing Harry Hill?
5:14–6:11
7
What are the team's reflections on things that annoy them?
6:11–7:14
8
How can listeners participate in the Happy Place Art Club?
7:14–16:13
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