The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic
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The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic
Neuroarchitecture and Landscaping: Healing Spaces and the Potential of Sensory Gardens
Ciro Férrer Herbster Albuquerque • Neuroarchitecture and Landscaping: Healing Spaces and the Potential of Sensory Gardens
“I cannot say exactly how nature exerts its calming and organizing effects on our brains,” the poetic neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote in the dawning years of the twenty-first century, “but I have seen in my patients the restorative and healing powers of nature and gardens, even for those who are deeply disabled neurologically.”
Maria Popova • The Healing Power of Nature and Beauty: Florence Nightingale on Expediting Recovery from Illness and Burnout
Cerebral activity in the prefrontal area of the brain, the part involved in executive functions, decision-making and other complex cognitive processes, may be reduced.12 Your body may produce lower levels of cortisol, which is released to help the body respond to stress.13
Lucy Jones • Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
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
A laptop operates the same whether it is open on a desk in an office or on a bench in a park. But human brains aren’t like that—they are exquisitely sensitive to context. One of the most fertile and fruitful places to “think with” is nature. That’s because, over eons of evolution, our brains were tuned to the kind of sensory information available
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