Surely you know the stone pyramids that adorn the hiking trails and banks of streams along such paths in tourist areas.
Many people also associate such small stone pyramids with thoughts of wellness, mindfulness and meditation.
Not without reason, because stacking the small stones on top of each other requires a lot of concentration and a steady hand.
If you are so engrossed in the creation of your stone pyramid, you simply have no more capacity free to indulge in your worried thoughts.
That's why building such small stone sculptures is also a wonderful way to calm down again and leave the omnipresent stress behind for a while.
Positive side effect: When stacking the bricks on top of each other, you work with natural materials. The haptic experience is calming and has been proven to contribute to relaxation.
So the next time you're out in nature, why not build a little stone pyramid like this and let yourself be surprised how calming it can be on your nerves.
This also has Michael Grab and the results are truly breathtaking.
Of course, you can also build wonderful things with other natural materials – just let yourself be inspired by your imagination and get creative.
You can also get a handful of stones, for example from a hardware store, and use them at home whenever you need a stress break. This also works wonderfully!
But beware:
If you take stones from nature, please put the stones back where you took them. The undersides of the stones are important habitats for many small animals, which in turn serve as food for larger animals. There are already hardly any fish left on some streams in tourist areas, because the stones, whose undersides actually form the habitat for the insects and aquatic animals that serve as food for the fish, stand as stone pyramids on the banks of the streams.