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Engaging with nature on vacation can not only you make feel more rested and restored, it can also enhance wellbeing when you're back home.
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Our relationship to nature and our relationships with one another are deeply intertwined.
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Incorporating awe into your daily stroll can bring mental and physical benefits. Here’s how to get started.
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The garden forever carries the seasons in the soul. Painters and poets have walked among its flowering, and in autumn drawn forth on it.
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The benefits of getting out in nature have been known at least since the 1850s, but not nearly enough Australians are getting out into the greenery.
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Quotes from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2023/04/06/will-robinson-hiking-war-veteran/ By Andrea Sachs #Walking in #Nature. #Ecotherapy, #BlueTherapy, #ForestBathing.…
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The walks were far from easy, but the experience was transformative – spiritual, even. “When you get into nature, you get in touch with another world. It resets your body compass and your mindset,” Belinda Isley says.
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These three therapy skills can help improve your mental health: choose reflection over reflex; bring softness, not hostility; and be curious, not judgmental.
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The more trees planted in a neighborhood, the fewer people die, according to a recent study led by U.S. Forest Service researchers out of Portland, Ore.
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Older adults who lived in an area with more green space had a lower rate of hospitalization for some diseases and dementias, a large study showed.
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Rather than just moving from A to B, think about your surroundings and the wider ramifications of your walk
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Experts say wonder is an essential human emotion — and a salve for a turbulent mind.
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Whether you're a social butterfly or the type to walk your own path, here's everything you need to know about getting into bushwalking.
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That feeling—of being in the presence of something vast—is good for us. And, counterintuitively, it can often be found in completely unremarkable circumstances.
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Einstein’s daily walk was sacred to him. While he was working at Princeton University, New Jersey, he’d walk the mile and a half journey there and back. He followed in the footsteps of other diligent walkers, including Darwin who went for three 45 minute walks every day.
These constitutionals weren’t just for fitness – there’s mountains of evidence that walking can boost memory, creativity and problem-solving. For creativity at least, walking outside is even better. But why?
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Incarcerated men and women watch nature videos on a loop in a mental health program.
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“Forest bathing is about walking slowly and quietly and noticing what’s around you – you might only cover 1.5 kilometres in three hours,” D’Appio says.
“You just notice that leaf there, this tree over here, that bug crawling on the tree. It’s just [about] being in nature and watching stuff and seeing what happens. There’s something really different about slowing the body down as opposed to speeding it up.”
D’Appio says research links forest bathing with a reduction in stress hormones and feelings of depression and anxiety, as well as enhanced immunity, and he says that unlike a hike to a particular summit, forest bathing seeks no “destination”.
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Study after study after study has proved what we feel, intuitively, in our gut: Walking is good for us. Beneficial for our joints and muscles; astute at relieving tension, reducing anxiety and depression; a boon to creativity, likely; slows the aging process, maybe; excellent at prying our screens from our face, definitely. Shane O’Mara, a professor of experimental brain research in Dublin, has called walking a “superpower,” claiming that walking, and only walking, unlocks specific parts of our brains, places that bequeath happiness and health.
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We have long known that connecting with nature in green spaces is great for our mental health. Now fresh research is showing that time near water - by the coast, rivers and even fountains in the park - is even more restorative
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The emotional connection or calming feeling that accompanies a walk in a park or forest is the result of psychological needs being met.
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OPINION: Nature lifts our mood, fights disease, and makes us smarter.
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Sydneysiders have continued to flock to parks and other public domains since COVID-19 struck, new figures show.
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Some previous research suggests people living in rural areas may be at a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. But these results tell a different story.
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Researchers say simply sitting and enjoying the peace has mental and physical benefits
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Two hours a week in nature is the threshold we need to reach before feeling health and wellbeing benefits, a new study finds.