The Healing Power of Nature and Beauty: Florence Nightingale on Expediting Recovery from Illness and Burnout
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The Healing Power of Nature and Beauty: Florence Nightingale on Expediting Recovery from Illness and Burnout
The key point to remember is that we experience nature through all of our senses, and so ensuring as balanced a diet of natural multisensory stimulation as possible is probably one of the best things that any of us can do to promote the health and well-being of both ourselves and those we care most about.
Charles Spence • Sensehacking: How to Use the Power of Your Senses for Happier, Healthier Living
When we are deprived of green, of plants, of trees, most of us (though evidently not all of us) succumb to a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological or neurochemical malady, until one day we find ourselves in a garden or park or countryside and feel the oppression vanish as if by magic.
— Robert Harrison: Gardens: An Es
... See moreThe basic concept6, 7 behind nature therapy is to increase physiological relaxation and act as a preventative medicine by improving the body’s natural resistance to disease, which is suppressed under conditions of stress.
Yoshifumi Miyazaki • Walking in the Woods: Go back to nature with the Japanese way of shinrin-yoku
As a writer, I find gardens essential to the creative process; as a physician, I take my patients to gardens whenever possible. All of us have had the experience of wandering through a lush garden or a timeless desert, walking by a river or an ocean, or climbing a mountain and finding ourselves simultaneously calmed and reinvigorated, engaged in mi... See more
Maria Popova • The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature
This idea of function and order is why when people need to clear their heads, they want to go for a walk or take a hike, smell the flowers. People go back to nature. What is happening is that people need to walk into something that is functioning the way God intended. Nature is where creation is functioning in order. As we are in that place of orde
... See moreK Frolander • Israel II: Beyond the Basics (Israel Basics Book 2)
The art of healing concerns the application of natural law to the human body and psyche.