The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature
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The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature
A 2015 study from Stanford University demonstrated that those who took a ninety-minute walk through a natural landscape had reduced neural activity in an area of the brain linked to risk for mental illness compared to those who walked in an urban environment.
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And so that's the power of those intimate immensities is that they carry, they encode so much that that can be ingested and, and taken into our bodies. Um, even just being in the garden and having our hands in the soil and, and, um, receiving their sensory, um, messages that they carry to us. Um, it's just profound healing.
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