Earth Day 2018. This year we are being encouraged to focus on reducing our plastic usage and waste.
Where is that place you love to be? Is it being spoilt and damaged by rubbish? Let’s get out in the environment and really connect with our plant. It will remind us to consider how we reduce, reuse and recyle what we use in the way of goods and packaging.
A healthy environment is essential to our physical, mental and emotional health. Research shows that spending time in nature has a calming, rejuvenating and restorative benefits. These include:
- Boosting immunity.
- Reducing blood pressure.
- Reducing stress.
- Improved mood.
- Reduces insomnia.
- Increases energy.
- Makes us happier.
In Japan a therapy called Shinrinyoku or (forest bathing) is used as preventative health care and as a healing technique. We can gain the same benefits by going to the beach or getting out into the bush or even our gardens. And what better time than on a Sunday to get out and about in nature?