This Is Your Brain on Nature | Explorer

as a nature rider I’ve always
intuitively known that it was healthy
for human beings to be out in the
natural world but it’s amazing what
science has proven about what nature
does to your brain some of the
scientists I’ve been talking to and
suggested technology is kind of slowly
ruining our lives
routing them in the sense that it’s
turning us into cut it fast twitch
animals it’s like an alarm clock going
off every 30 seconds it is sapping our
ability to concentrate for a long time
sapping our ability to appreciate the
natural world sapping our ability to get
away from screens one thing that’s
consistent throughout is that nature has
healthy physiological benefits
psychological benefits and at the risk
of sounding hokey spiritual benefits we
can take our nature in smaller doses a
walk a day would make a huge difference
in terms of health we’ve seen people
going for walks and coming back with
greater cognitive power it does not
necessarily I’m not suggesting everybody
go beat the RO and live them you know
become a hermit and live alone but I
would suggest that people remember that
there’s a world outside of their screens
as we get more withdrawn from nature and
we get more abstracted in and kind of
timid in and smaller in our lives we
romanticize the wild that’s been lost I
think the appeal has to do with the fact
that we spent millions of years living
in nature and evolving in nature and now
as we move away from it some part of us
a kind of wild part of us misses our our
original home our ancestral home which
is nature
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