Summary Of How Nature Can Make You Happier

In an article entitled “How Nature Can Make You Kinder, Happier, and More Creative”, the author, Jill Suttie, a doctor of psychology and Greater Good’s book review editor, believes that being exposed to nature can have positive effects on a person’s mindset and behavior. Suttie discusses how through conducted experiments and studies, nature has been proven to improve a person’s mental and emotional state.

The author starts off the article by recounting her own experience with nature and how that affected her. She provides a few quotes from David Strayer, a cognitive neuroscientist and a professor in the University of Utah, who believes that nature has profound changes on the brain and the body. Strayer states that taking a walk can push your

The scientists in charge of the experiments measured the participants’ heart rates and blood pressure while they were taking their walks, proving that being exposed to nature reduces stress. Who conducted these experiments? And where did Suttie get this information from? She provides neither, which makes them lack credibility. She also cites a few other experiments like the ones conducted by Roger Ulrich, a behavioral scientist, Dacher Keltner, a psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Greater Good Science Center (GGSC) director, and Paul Piff, another psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, which all proved that being exposed to nature leads to higher positive emotions and behavior, lower stress levels, being more trusting, and generally improved social behavior. She then provides a few studies done by Bratman, and Peter Aspinall, a professor of Environmental Studies at Heriot University, both of whom came up with similar results, confirming the fact that

Being surrounded by nature and its beautiful scenery can have profound effects on a person’s state of mind and emotional well-being. For me, there’s nothing more motivating and relaxing than sitting on a beach and enjoying the sound of the waves. At those moments, I don’t feel the need to text, or check my Facebook, or even to call my friends out of boredom. At those moments, I feel like my head gets cleared of every negative thought it was once plagued with and I become motivated to experience new things and help others in whatever they need help with. At family gatherings, I listen with fascination when adults start talking about their younger days, before Facebook and social media and the internet, about how they never used to stay indoors. They’d talk about how all their free time was spent playing games outdoors and how it was the best years of their lives. It makes me wonder. Is our generation missing out on the best years of our lives by staying indoors and avoiding nature? In an article entitled “You Asked: Is It Bad to Be Inside All Day?” published on Time website, the author, Markham Heid, states that spending time outdoors boosts your energy levels by 40%, while staying indoors has the opposite effect. Apparently, staying indoors makes you lazy. Certainly explains why when I go camping, I feel much more energized even through 17 hours of constant movement, than if I stay at home, lying