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Feeling stressed? Look out the nearest window.

31 Thursday Jan 2019

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University of Washington researchers found a window view is far more soothing, and lowers a person’s heart rate farther, than watching TV. But there’s a catch: It has to be a view of nature. If you’re looking at a cityscape of buildings, traffic, and crowds, instead of flowers, trees or water, it’s not going to lower your stress.

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Feeling stressed?

23 Tuesday Oct 2018

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Look out a window. Researchers at the University of Washington found the view outside is far more soothing – and lowers a person’s heart rate further than plopping in front of the TV. But there’s a catch: It has to be a view of nature. If you’re looking at a cityscape of buildings, traffic, and crowds of pedestrians, instead of flowers, trees or a burbling fountain, it’s not going to lower your stress.

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Go outside and be happy!

11 Monday Sep 2017

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You can turn around a bad mood by being outside for as little as 5 minutes. According to the journal Environmental Science & Technology, being in fresh air for 5 minutes can improve your mood and self-esteem. And the goal should be to do that 3 or 4 times during the workday. Alan Logan is a naturopathic doctor who wrote “Your Brain On Nature”… And he says, when you take that fresh air break, you don’t even need to be active for it to have the desired effect. Because just looking at a tree, the mountains in the distance, or any natural landscape increases activity in the part of the brain that controls happy memories and stress reduction.

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Living in a tree-filled neighborhood is good for you!

06 Monday Feb 2017

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Researchers from the University of Chicago looked at data on the amount of trees in one city – along with detailed information on the health of more than 30,000 city residents. And people in neighborhoods with more trees reported significantly fewer symptoms of metabolic syndrome – like high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity or diabetes. It’s down to the healing and restorative effect of nature.

For an energy-boost…

26 Thursday May 2016

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sit under a tree. The University of Michigan found that smelling the organic aroma of growing trees – and listening to soothing nature sounds, like the rustling of leaves – stimulates your brain’s frontal lobe…And increases production of energy-boosting beta waves…Which can literally double your energy in as little as 10 minutes.

Need to improve your focus, fast?

28 Monday Dec 2015

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Get back to nature!
If you can’t go outside, hop onto YouTube and do a search for “nature montage”… Then, watch pictures of land, sea, or sky. A study at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor found that pictures of nature are so restful, that they boost attention and memory by nearly 20%.

If you need to calm down, stare out a window.

16 Tuesday Jun 2015

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Watching rain fall, or the trees blow in the wind, or any nature scene for
5 minutes has a tranquilizing effect. A new brain scan study reveals that looking at nature causes different regions of the brain to work in sync – which results in a calm state of mind.

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