{"id":18984,"date":"2025-09-16T11:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/?p=18984"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:33:09","slug":"soak-up-the-sun-yes-ten-tips-and-fun-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/soak-up-the-sun-yes-ten-tips-and-fun-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Soak up the Sun? Yes! Ten Tips and Fun Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Researchers now think that we need 15 to 20 minutes of unprotected sun every day for vital health and well-being. And there is something about becoming mindful of the life-promoting energy of the sun that connects us with that force for growth in a very powerful way.<\/p>\n

So here is a cornucopia of sun-drenched ideas for getting the most out of your sun experience. Try one or try a few\u2013you too can be a sun-worshipper!<\/p>\n

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  1. Find a pleasant place in the sun and just sit there. If you wear glasses, remove them so you can absorb the full spectrum. Feel the warmth on your skin: after 15 or 20 minutes, sniff your arm and enjoy the sun-warmed scent. If you\u2019re afraid you may\u00a0Fall Asleep<\/a>, take a timer with you!<\/li>\n
  2. Go for a sunny walk around your neighborhood, or explore someplace new. Either way, you get sun and\u00a0Exercise<\/a>, too.<\/li>\n
  3. Take your lunch break in the sun.<\/li>\n
  4. Make a pitcher of Sun Tea: Put 1 teabag (black, green, or herbal) per pint of water in a glass container, and leave outside in the sun to steep for an hour. Add sweetener and fresh mint, if you like, and drink a glass slowly during your Sun Minutes.<\/li>\n
  5. Play with Prisms: Buy a prism, go outside, and make rainbows. Give some thought to the wonder of bright light being made up of all those beautiful, saturated colors.<\/li>\n
  6. This fascinating favorite never fails to amaze and amuse: using a magnifying glass, capture sunlight in a small focused beam, shining it on a piece of paper or a dry leaf. See how quickly it will begin to burn. Be careful: the sun is powerful!<\/li>\n
  7. If you can\u2019t get outside enough, or in the winter, use full-spectrum lighting. Eight hours in this lighting only amounts to about 15 minutes of UV radiation. Sunlight offers all the same color spectrum as the chakras: red,\u00a0Orange<\/a>, yellow, green, blue, indigo,\u00a0Violet<\/a>\u00a0and white (the 8th chakra). We need a balance of all those colors to feel whole.<\/li>\n
  8. Do some gardening. If you don\u2019t have the space for a big garden, plant something in a terra cotta pot and tend it: it can be very soothing and meditative to pluck off dead flower-heads or pull out weeds, to water and nurture your plants. The sunlight you absorb while you do this is an added benefit.<\/li>\n
  9. Read the daily newspaper in the sun. Look at your mail there, too!<\/li>\n
  10. If you are physically challenged, open a window facing the sun and sit beside it for your 20 minutes. A friend of Annie\u2019s takes time every morning to soak in some sun, before coffee, breakfast, or anything else. This practice is similar to the Native American tradition of making a prayer to the sunrise first thing every morning, and then again at sunset.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Researchers now think that we need 15 to 20 minutes of unprotected sun every day for vital health and well-being. And there is something about becoming mindful of the life-promoting energy of the sun that connects us with that force for growth in a very powerful way. So here is a cornucopia of sun-drenched ideas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-health-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}