{"id":323,"date":"2015-03-16T01:49:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T08:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/?p=323"},"modified":"2015-03-16T22:24:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T05:24:36","slug":"stress-anxiety-and-the-solace-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/featured\/stress-anxiety-and-the-solace-of-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Stress, Anxiety and The Solace of Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Solace<\/a><\/p>\n

People search everywhere for health and for natural remedies to bring it to them. \u00a0There are all kinds of natural remedies for stress and anxiety and they typically arrive in the form of a capsule of one powdered herb or another. \u00a0However, the wild comfort and solace of nature is increasingly being shown to be the number one natural remedy for your health and its free\u00a0if you can get to it.\u00a0\u00a0Here’s what\u00a0Richard Louv,\u00a0Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the\u00a0Children & Nature Network<\/a>\u00a0and author of \u00a0The Nature Principle<\/a><\/em> recently had to say on his New Nature Movement blog<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

“Not everyone has the ability to seek out nature in difficult times.\u00a0One must acknowledge that inequity, and another reality: The people who lost their homes to Hurricane Sandy or the people of the drowned parishes of New Orleans or the irradiated mud fields of post-tsunami Japan found no solace in the natural world.<\/p>\n

“S<\/span>till, in dark times, one human impulse is to find kinship with other species and connection to elements beyond the headlines, where we feel\u00a0larger forces at work, and know that all things must pass.<\/p>\n

“At the saturation point, the rush of water on a stream or a sudden storm on a high trail or a discovered quiet corner of an urban park is preferable to the inundation of media coverage that, hour after hour repeats itself, until our response to the pain on the screen seems to move beyond empathetic to gratuitous.\u00a0How much of modern life\u00a0is spent adrift in vicarious experience, second-hand reality, the pain of endless war\u00a0brought to you\u00a0by liquid cleansers?”<\/p>\n

Difficult times are the times we need nature the most, \u00a0but a little dose once a day and more on the\u00a0weekend can go a very long way in reducing the stress and anxiety that seems an integral part of the modern world. \u00a0Try seeking solace in nature, it will do your body good.<\/p>\n

“Nature brings solace in all troubles.” \u00a0Anne Frank in The Diary of a Young Girl<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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People search everywhere for health and for natural remedies to bring it to them. \u00a0There are all kinds of natural remedies for stress and anxiety and they typically arrive in the form of a capsule of one powdered herb or another. \u00a0However, the wild comfort and solace of nature is increasingly being shown to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-memes","category-mental"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.globalcreations.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}