Reconnect with Nature to Reduce Stress and Blood Pressure

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Here’s the thing: spending more time in nature plays a crucial role in reducing stress and blood pressure, improving your mood and enhancing feelings of wellbeing and happiness. Whatever you want to call it — ecotherapy, forest bathing, the wilderness cure, green time, or mindfulness in nature — humans evolved outdoors, and your brain appreciates a journey to nature.

You see, studies have shown that our environment can reduce or increase our stress. This, in turn, affects our bodies. What you see, hear, and experience at any moment changes not only your mood but the workings of your endocrine, nervous, and immune systems.

The stress caused by an unpleasant environment triggers helplessness, sadness, anxiety, or helplessness. This, in turn, triggers a rise in your blood pressure, muscle tension, and heart rate and suppresses your immune system. No doubt, a fun, and pleasing environment will reverse this.

What’s more? Regardless of culture or age, humans are always pleased with nature. A study cited in Healing Gardens reported that at least two-thirds of people prefer retreating to a natural setting when stressed.

Nature has healing powers

Being in a natural setting or viewing nature scenes reduces fear, anger, and stress and…