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Doing This While Walking Helps You Beat Stress, Say Experts
Doing This While Walking Helps You Beat Stress, Say Experts
According to a report published earlier in the year by
The Wall Street Journal, walking in nature comes with a range of added benefits. Spending time in the woods a practice the Japanese call forest bathing is strongly linked to lower blood pressure, heart rate and stress hormones and decreased anxiety, depression and fatigue, observed the
WSJ. And given that nature is such a profound antidepressant, it would only make sense that going for a walk with your therapist instead of speaking to them indoors or on Zoom would result in enhanced therapeutic benefits, as well. Turns out, many experts say it does.
‘There’s something hugely freeing about being in open space.’ Illustration: Eva Bee/The Observer
‘There’s something hugely freeing about being in open space.’ Illustration: Eva Bee/The Observer
Outdoor therapy can help people to become reflective and their body language while moving gives clues to their feelings
Sat 17 Apr 2021 12.00 EDT
Covid has transformed the way many of us work and that includes the people who look after our mental health. For much of lockdown, psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists and psychiatrists have all had to venture into the world of online therapy, tackling their clients’ issues via a computer screen, and often the experience has felt less than ideal for all those involved.
Image courtesy of The Community Farm
In the UK, where the Black Lives Matter movement coalesced with a pandemic-provoked appreciation for green space and local food for all, questions of unequal land access and ownership are becoming impossible to ignore. Ursula Billington reports on some urban farms opening their gates to inclusion.
The statistics speak for themselves: in England, 1% of the population owns 50% of the land. 98.6% of farm managers and holders are White-British. Just 3.5% of environment professionals come from an ethnic minority background.
Image courtesy of The Community Farm
Structural inequalities
This inequality has historic roots, compounded by many issues including urbanisation – over 98% of Black people live in cities, often in areas deprived of nature; a whitewashed media in relation to outdoor pursuits; and hostile rural areas and agricultural institutions.