The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature
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The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
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gardening as a counterforce to disconnect, a salve to the illusion of human separateness and control, and a path toward what it means to live a truly good life.
Wonderground • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care
A 2015 study from Stanford University demonstrated that those who took a ninety-minute walk through a natural landscape had reduced neural activity in an area of the brain linked to risk for mental illness compared to those who walked in an urban environment.
Casper ter Kuile • The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices
Attention Restoration is based on their finding that natural settings are a highly effective way of giving our task-focused thinking a rest and restoring our mental energy. When we overuse our conscious cognitive processing skills, we are susceptible to what they called ‘attention fatigue’ and the brain becomes less able to inhibit distracting stim
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