What if there was a natural, drug-free way to control anxiety, lift your mood, decrease stress, and reduce your blood pressure. Even better, what if that remedy didn’t cost a thing. Would you do it?
I think most people would, if they knew what it was. A tip: it’s not surfing social media, and it’s not on the news. It can’t be found in any television program, or by eating a particular kind of food. It’s even easier than that. All you have to do is spend time in nature.
Studies from Japan and from Stanford University show that taking a walk through a forest or park decreases worry, anxiety and depression, while lowering heart rate and decreasing blood pressure, compared with the same length of walk through an urban neighbourhood.
If you’re feeling tired and burned out by life, relief is just a step away. Take a walk in your local park. Drive to a conservation area and go for a hike, either alone, or with friends. You’ll find you’re not only more relaxed, but can also think more clearly because a brain that’s “chilled out”, rather than burned out, just works better.
Excerpt: “Nature lulls us with soft fascination, helping to rest our top-down, direct-attention faculties” — or the parts of our brain that are involved in effortful thinking, which are constantly triggered by the stimuli of urban environments. “With that restoration,” Williams writes, “we become more relaxed and can perform thinking tasks better.”
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/04/the-original-natural-remedy-for-burnout-nature.html
About the Author: Rebecca Wong has a BA in English Literature from the University of Waterloo and has been working in the herbal business since 2000. She studied at the Ontario College of Traditional Chinese Medicine under respected authorities Paul Des Rosiers and Vu Le, and graduated from the East West School of Planetary Herbology under Michael Tierra. She received training as a yoga teacher at The Branches in Kitchener/Waterloo, and therapeutic yoga teacher training from the School for Somatic Soulwork under Deniz Aydoslu. She now teaches yoga for anxiety, depression and burnout at Rebecca's Restful Yoga Studio in Toronto.
I have ridicultis and arthritis in my neck etc. Will not have surgery for it as brother did badly with surgery also have erectial disfunction and I am 85…What will help my pain???? Richard Bristol
I’m so sorry to hear about your struggle with arthritis. I know how difficult it can be to deal with chronic pain. My mother-in-law, Julia, also struggled with rheumatoid arthritis for years. She was able to control her pain, and eventually eliminate it entirely without the use of drugs using a few simple remedies. I will email you with some suggestions.