{"id":1793,"date":"2021-04-21T11:10:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T11:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2021-04-21T11:10:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T11:10:47","slug":"teneergeslagen-chagrijnig-zoek-de-natuur-eens-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/dejected-grumpy-look-up-to-nature-for-once\/","title":{"rendered":"A little downcast or cranky? 4 major advantages if you visit nature more often."},"content":{"rendered":"

In these special times it can happen that the walls are coming your way or that you need some change. Do you notice that your mood is increasingly bothering you or are you getting more grumpy? Research suggests that mood disorders can be remedied by spending more time outdoors in nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking for an easy way to reduce stress, anxiety and depression and maybe even improve your memory? Take a walk in the woods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Veel mannen lopen een groter risico op stemmingsstoornissen naarmate ze ouder worden, door het omgaan met plotselinge veranderingen in het leven, zoals gezondheidsproblemen, het verlies van dierbaren en zelfs de nieuwe wereld van pensionering.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This says Dr. Jason Strauss, director of geriatric psychiatry at Harvard-affiliated Cambridge Health Alliance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your brain, negative emotions and nature<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Research in a growing scientific field called ecotherapy has shown a strong link between time spent in nature and reduced stress, anxiety and stress depression<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Het is niet precies duidelijk waarom excursies in de buitenlucht zo’n positief mentaal effect hebben. Toch vergeleken onderzoekers in een onderzoek uit 2015 de hersenactiviteit van gezonde mensen nadat ze 90 minuten in een natuurlijke of stedelijke omgeving hadden gelopen. Ze ontdekten dat degenen die een natuurwandeling maakten, een lagere activiteit hadden in de prefrontale cortex, een hersengebied dat actief is tijdens het “herkauwen” – gedefinieerd als repetitieve gedachten die zich richten op voornamelijk negatieve emoties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When people are depressed or under high stress, this part of the brain does not function properly and people experience a continuous loop of negative thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we dig a little deeper, it turns out that interacting with natural spaces offers other therapeutic benefits. For example, calming nature sounds and even outdoor silence can lower blood pressure and lower the stress hormone cortisol, which calms the body's fight-or-flight response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visual aspects of nature<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The visual aspects of nature can also have a calming effect. Having something nice to focus on, such as trees and greenery, helps to distract your mind from negative thinking so that your mind becomes less filled with worry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Visual aspects of nature can have a very calming effect on you (fig<\/a>.)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Bring the outdoors of nature indoors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you can't get outside, listening to nature sounds can have a similar effect, suggests a report<\/a> published online by Scientific Reports on March 27, 2017. Researchers used an MRI scanner to measure brain activity in humans while listening for sounds recorded from natural or artificial environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listening to natural sounds caused the listener's brain connectivity to reflect an outward focus of attention, a process that takes place during wakeful rest periods such as daydreaming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Het luisteren naar kunstmatige geluiden cre\u00eberde een naar binnen gerichte focus, die optreedt tijdens angsttoestanden, posttraumatische stressstoornis en depressie. Zelfs het bekijken van foto’s van natuurgebieden, jouw favoriete plek of een plek die je graag wilt bezoeken, kan al helpen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find your space as often as you can<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

But how much time with nature is enough? Anything from 20 to 30 minutes, three days a week, to regular three-day weekends in the woods is helpful. The point is that your interactions with nature become part of your normal lifestyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your time with nature can be something as simple as a daily walk in a park or a Saturday afternoon on a local hiking trail. You can even try to combine your outings with your regular exercise by power walking, running directly with walking the dog, or going outside for a bike ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The type of natural environment doesn't really matter. Concentrate on places that are most comfortable for you. The goal is to get away from the huge stimulating urban environments with continuous stimuli and surround yourself with a natural environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you don't even have to go it alone. A 2014 study found that group nature walks were just as effective as solo treks in terms of reducing depression and stress and improving overall mental outlook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, the researchers noted that people who had recently experienced stressful life events, such as a serious illness, the death of a loved one, or unemployment, received the greatest mental boost from a group nature outing. Nature can have a powerful effect on our mental state and there are many ways to take advantage of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources ao Foodspring (link<\/a>), Harvard (link<\/a>), Newscientist (link<\/a>), WebMD (link<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In deze bijzondere tijden kan het zomaar voorkomen dat de muren op je af komen of dat je even toe bent aan wat verandering. Merk je dat je steeds wat meer last krijgt van je humeur of wordt je chagrijniger? Onderzoek suggereert dat stemmingsstoornissen kunnen worden opgeheven door meer tijd buitenshuis in de natuur door […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[4,23],"tags":[21,51,138,120,52,80,14,149,142,144,58,131,55,47,19,61,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codetofreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}