How nature effect human psychology
Research shows that environments can increase or reduce our stress which sequentially impacts our bodies. What we are seeing, hearing, experiencing at any moment is changing not only our mood, but how our ndocrine, nervous, and immune systems are working.
Unpleasant environment can cause us to feel anxious, or sad, or helpless. This in turn elevates our heart rate, blood pressure, and muscle tension and repress our immune system. A pleasing environment completely change it.
Working in a windowless office has been proven negatively affect on mood and has been link with depression.
Being in beautiful outdoor surroundings acts as refreshment for the brain which can also improve abilities of creativity, focus and problem-solving.
Even looking at images or videos of natural scenes can have a positive psychological effect.in psychological study it found that brain activity affected in a positive way viewing green scenes. It’s not known exactly why nature has this effect. Some scientists believe we are programmed evolutionary to respond positively to nature as this is the environment our human ancestors grow in.
Nature also helps us cope with pain. Because we are genetically programmed to find plants, trees, water, and other nature elements facinating, we are absorbed by nature scenes and distrait from our pain and discomfit.
This is nicely demonstrated now in a classic study of patients who underwent gallbladder surgery, half had a view of trees and half had a view of a wall. According to the physician who conducted the study, Robert Ulrich, the patients with the view of trees tolerated pain better, appeared to nurses to have fewer negative effects, and spent less time in a hospital. More recent studies have shown similar results with scenes from nature and plants in hospital rooms.
Andrea taylor’s research on children with adhd shows that time spent in nature increases their attention span later. Exposure to nature increases concentration and attention span. Research published in psychological science found one hour of interacting with nature, such as a walk in a park, increased memory and attention span by 20 -25 percent. In addition, a study published in the american journal of public health determined that nature views and “green time” outdoors reduced the symptoms of ADHD.
How colours effct
Researchers found that more than two-thirds of people choose a natural setting to retreat to when stressed. Most people would agree that colours affect our mood and feelings. We use red to signify danger, something we have mirrored from the natural world, and we know that blues and greens can be calming. “it could be a simple as colour”, begins bell, “as colours that most often occur in the natural world, greens, blues and the range of browns, are definitely more calming.”
Leslie harrington, director of the colour association of the united states, agrees, “we also have an innate reaction to colour. For example, when we look at red, it does increase our heart rate. It is a stimulating colour. Psychologically, blue is the opposite of red and it lowers blood pressure and blue takes us down, but not down to depression level”, Harrington told the huffington post. “there is some tentative evidence emerging showing that green is relaxing because it is associated with growth and nature.”
How Light effect
Light helps to regulate our natural biological clock. Before the days of artificial lighting, people would naturally wake up with the sunrise and sleep when it became dark.
Modern life has shifted this pattern a little but natural light still has the same effect on sleep cycles. A study of worker at different latitudes with different amounts of sunlight each day, found that less natural light resulted in poorer sleep.
This is important because insufficient or poor-quality sleep can have a negative effect on your mental health and even lead to depression. The australian national sleep foundation promotes sleep as a way to battle anxiety, depression, and other mental disorders.
How air effet
the air we breathe in a natural environment could very well be fundamental to the reduced blood pressure levels and heart rates and psychological stress .
