Title: How Does Nature Impact Our Wellbeing? | Taking Charge of Your Health & Wellbeing
Headings: How Does Nature Impact Our Wellbeing?
How Does Nature Impact Our Wellbeing?
Nature and Us Home
Nature heals
Nature soothes
Nature restores
Real-life examples of people helped by nature
Read their stories
Nature connects
Too much time in front of screens is deadly
Breaking an addiction to technology
Limit your children's screen time
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Content: This in turn elevates your blood pressure, heart rate, and muscle tension and suppresses your immune system. A pleasing environment reverses that. And regardless of age or culture, humans find nature pleasing. In one study cited in the book Healing Gardens, researchers found that more than two-thirds of people choose a natural setting to retreat to when stressed. Nature heals
Being in nature, or even viewing scenes of nature, reduces anger, fear, and stress and increases pleasant feelings. Exposure to nature not only makes you feel better emotionally, it contributes to your physical wellbeing, reducing blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tension, and the production of stress hormones. It may even reduce mortality, according to scientists such as public health researchers Stamatakis and Mitchell. Research done in hospitals, offices, and schools has found that even a simple plant in a room can have a significant impact on stress and anxiety. Nature soothes
In addition, nature helps us cope with pain. Because we are genetically programmed to find trees, plants, water, and other nature elements engrossing, we are absorbed by nature scenes and distracted from our pain and discomfort.