tag > Nature
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"Choose only one master - Nature" - Rembrandt
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The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania - Art by Sir Joseph Noel Paton. Painted in 1849.
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This website shares books, documents and links to other websites on subjects that I hope will cause us to question our most deeply held beliefs, world views , assumptions and our understanding of our relationship with the cosmos.
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Nature's Psyops
Imagine if in the past 2 years the "elites" instead of running a giant pro-fear, pro-control, pro-pharma-mafia psyops, would of put all that time and energy into promoting nature and its many benefits. Imagine a massive global psyops promoting the cultivation of medicinal plants, mushrooms and mind-body-nature practices, such as forrest bathing, qigong and yoga. Goverment mandated ginger booster smoothies, healthy diets and stress reduction programs. What would the outcomes have been for the public's physical and mental health & well-being?
In some sense, Humanity should be thankful for the horrendous Covid psyops, as it has brought an extremely destructive cultural undercurrent to the surface: The wide-spread belief that humans are essentially just complicated machines which can be "fixed" exclusively through "magic" pharmaceutical pills, administered by scientific "experts". This is the single biggest bullshit story and self-perpetuating lie of the past 250 years, which is starting to self-destruct.
#Ideas #Nature #Health #Culture #FFHCI #Mindbody #Cryptocracy #Politics #Economics
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An illustration of the benefits of embedding nature in the built environment (Reeve, 2014)
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Outdoors for All: Access to Nature is a Human Right - by Richard Louv
"On average, today’s kids spend up to 44 hours per week in front of a screen, & less than 10 minutes a day playing outdoors."
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Nature is the perfect prescription for the mind, body and spirit. More important than ever.
"The future will belong to the nature-smart—those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.” —Richard Louv (Author of "The nature principle - Reconnecting with Life in a virtual age" and other books on the topic. Coined the term "Nature Deficit Disorder")
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Benefits of Forest Bathing (Shinrin-Yoku)
Shinrin-Yoku, translated into English as ‘forest bathing', means taking in the forest atmosphere during a leisurely walk. It is a therapy that was developed in Japan during the 1980s, becoming a cornerstone of preventive health care and healing in Japanese medicine.
Researchers, primarily in Japan and South Korea, have conducted studies on the health benefits of spending time amongst the trees, demonstrating that forest bathing positively creates calming neuro-psychological effects through changes in the nervous system, reducing the stress hormone cortisol and boosting the immune system.
Every study conducted so far has demonstrated reductions in stress, anger, anxiety, depression and sleeplessness amongst the participants. In fact after just 15 minutes of forest bathing blood pressure drops, stress levels are reduced and concentration and mental clarity improve.
There are now 44 accredited Shinrin-Yoku forests in Japan, with the research conducted helping to establish Shinrin-Yoku and forest therapy throughout the world.
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Nature, Mind & Medicine: A Model for Mind-Body Healing - by Jason Kaufman (unpaywalled)
Objective: The human mind-body possesses a remarkable innate ability to heal. Grounded in the evolutionarily conserved systems of the brain and body, nature appears to function as the fundamental source of wellness along the two vectors of attention and relaxation. Yet, our species is moving away from nature at a time when humanity is just beginning to rediscover its benefits.
Conclusions: Exposure to natural environments may provide a "window" of healing that can be extended through a continuum of intervention through the use of guided meditation and ultimately hypnotic suggestion. The result may be an improved ability to promote greater executive functioning and more robust immune regulation. The time has come for a more holistic medicine guided by the hand of nature.
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The brain and its time: intrinsic neural timescales are key for input processing
We process and integrate multiple timescales into one meaningful whole. Recent evidence suggests that the brain displays a complex multiscale temporal organization. Different regions exhibit different timescales as described by the concept of intrinsic neural timescales (INT); however, their function and neural mechanisms remains unclear. We review recent literature on INT and propose that they are key for input processing. Specifically, they are shared across different species, i.e., input sharing. This suggests a role of INT in encoding inputs through matching the inputs’ stochastics with the ongoing temporal statistics of the brain’s neural activity, i.e., input encoding. Following simulation and empirical data, we point out input integration versus segregation and input sampling as key temporal mechanisms of input processing. This deeply grounds the brain within its environmental and evolutionary context. It carries major implications in understanding mental features and psychiatric disorders, as well as going beyond the brain in integrating timescales into artificial intelligence.
