Do you feel alive? Do you feel excited for the day, passionately pursuing your goals? Do you feel connected to yourself, others and the world around you?  If you’re anything like the rest of us, life is often just the opposite. Ongoing stress, obligation and multi-tasking stretch the days and weeks into a sort of blank autopilot mode. Before you know it, you’re not even experiencing life -- you’re just crawling through it. Fortunately, the remedy is as ancient as existence itself. It is reconnection with the natural elements and sincere human connection. Time outdoors while working alongside others drastically reduces the stress hormone cortisol, helping you to remember that feeling you had as a child. There is a type of healing that men may do best in the company of other men. To slough off unquestioned values of society and its pop-cultural insecurities. In cultivating a mind without fear, you may discover a self so confident in its essence that posturing and status become tools no longer needed. In reconnecting with the creative nature of the forest, the ocean and the stars, you may learn to listen to the subtle signals of your body that tell you who you are and what you want from life. You may drop the mask and become the self that was.