Benefits Of Nature For Mental Health

Abstract

Human interaction with the natural environment has a significant impact on mental health. Spending time in nature has been shown to be effective in reducing stress and anxiety, and improving psychological well-being. Nature provides important relaxing effects to the body and facilitates better emotion regulation processes. Direct experience with natural environments can increase mindfulness, which contributes to more effective management of emotions. In addition, connection with nature can stimulate the senses through the stimulation of sounds, smells and green sights that serve to calm the mind, improve mood and create a can provide benefits for mental health such as supporting human physiological aspects, as well as its role in achieving better emotional balance, integrating time in nature into daily routines can be an effective strategy to improve mental health.