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I was skeptical of forest bathing. But then I tried it alongside eight Harvard doctors who looked to this practice with ancient roots to address modern ills.

26/06/2025

Personal Journals Podcast · Updated Fortnightly · Season one kicks off in New York City—America’s most walkable city—capturing honest, spontaneous conversations with the people who pass us by.

25/03/2025

What an excellent episode!

Podcast Episode · The Mel Robbins Podcast · 24/03/2025 · 1h 18m

05/03/2025

International day of happiness coming up! “Caring & Sharing” is the theme of the new World Happiness Report being published on 20 March 2025

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15/10/2024

Great resource

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20/09/2024

There are 4 steps you can follow to create a helpful connection with someone.
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20/09/2024

EcoMediation is the practice of meditation but with attaining elevated brain states that stimulate alpha brain waves, directly affecting your ability to control emotional, mental, and spiritual capacities.

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21/07/2024

Walking can have a bigger impact on disease risk and various health conditions than just about any other remedy that's readily available to you. What's more, it's free and has practically no negati...

26/06/2024

Having just returned from an 8-day hike in the Tasmanian highlands (the Overland Track), I can truly say that I’m feeling more positive, light, and rejuvenated by the experience. This is in line with contemporary research that has consistently found time in nature (i.e., forest bathing) to be positively associated with mental health, a reduction in blood pressure and heart rate, as well as levels of stress hormones. Time in nature also positively influences gastrointestinal microbiota composition, with improvements seen in ecosystem richness and diversity, as well as helpful shifts in composition, such as reductions in pathobiont populations like Bacteroides. As clinicians, one of the interventions we should be promoting more to our patients, is time in nature - or what I call “nature leave”. This can be in bigger time blocks, such as the 8-days I just experienced, but even shorter time windows are beneficial. Some research suggests that just 2 hours per week in natural environments (e.g., parklands, gardens, national parks) is all that is required to obtain substantial health benefits. So get out there!