10 Mental Health Benefits of Gardening
Natural environments help us recover from stress,1 which then improves our concentration, creativity, and overall feeling of well-being.
Liz Moody • 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success
Gardening is simply a framework for engagement with our world, grounded in care, action and intimacy with place. To garden is to care deeply, inclusively and audaciously for the world outside our homes and our heads. It’s a way of being that is intimately interwoven with the real truths of existence—not the things we’re told to value (money, status... See more
Georgina Reid • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care - Wonderground
Gardens that have vistas as well as protected spaces within them satisfy our need for prospect and refuge. Much as physical or emotional holding can be protective and open at the same time, so a garden can offer a feeling of safe enclosure without entrapment.
Sue Stuart-Smith • The Well Gardened Mind
Cemetery strolls can lift your mood
BENEFITS FOR: Sadness and general health.
In the last few years, cemeteries have become the subject of numerous psychological studies from as far afield as Norway and Turkey to Kuala Lumpur and North America.
Cemetery walkers have been interviewed in detail, their emotions recorded, analysed and compared. And
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