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How nature affects the human condition
Urban residents make up 73% of Russia’s population. Every schoolboy knows about it from a textbook. This means that the majority of Russians breathing contaminated air, fall asleep to the sound of the machines, pushed and hurt each other on public transport, admiring the stone walls and asphalt and are not even aware of what a beneficial influence views of nature. However, as it turns out, not all are equally useful.
While urbanists figure out how to make the urban environment easier and more enjoyable, scientists find out how different types of nature impact on people. We used to think that you should hang on the desktop of your computer screen Wallpaper with a peaceful river or slide and you can almost meditate. However, hill hill discord. It turns out that different landscapes produce different impression. And on your aesthetic preferences it does not depend.
5 new facts about the influence of nature on humans
Walk amongst the trees gets rid of painful thoughts
It found a group of scientists from Stanford University in the United States, among whom was a biologist, a psychologist and expert on the environment. They are concerned that urban citizens are increasingly found mental disorders, including clinical depression, and decided to check out the version that all this is due to the fact that people do not have enough nature, this is confirmed by previous studies.
Is it possible that observation of life, nature helps a person to get rid of unpleasant thoughts about yourself and your life?
A series of experiments showed that, Yes. Those study participants who within 90 minutes walking among the greenery and trees, do noted that destructive thoughts are gone, while those who went on a 90 minute walk through the city, anything not observed.
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After stress on the nature of people recover faster
British scientists from the University of Essex found out the unexpected. It turns out that if a man observes the scene of nature before being subjected to stress, it comes faster than people who watched before to go through the unpleasant moment of his life, city scenes. It is physiologically reversed, it is the parasympathetic nervous system aktiviziruyutsya — and that’s what usually helps us to calm down when we are overexcited or alarmed. Perhaps it means that each of us before work is necessary to walk in some green copse.
Desert landscapes reduce motivation in the fight against bad habits
What looks beautiful (and those who though time has visited in the desert, will never forget its magical landscape), not necessarily useful, found scientists from the Israeli University Ben-Gurion in the Negev. They decided to explore how the types of sun parched lifeless landscapes affect human well-being. After several studies, they found that paintings and photographs depicting the desert, cause those took part in the experiment, anguish, deprived of the vitality and self-confidence in the struggle with addictions. “But hang it all, thinks probably that kind of person. All is vanity. Nothing will change. Smoked, smoke and will smoke”.
A sense of desolation and gloom, which leads people desert, is even stronger at the sight of the image of the city streets.
And absolutely disappears, if people can see a picture of a lake waterfall or any other water body.
Trees and lakes help focus
Of course, to experiment on a tired people — extremely cruel, but what if the Italian scientists from the University of Padova aimed to find out whether images of nature to get rid of fatigue to those works a lot head. To do this, participants first made to pass a difficult test of concentration, and then began to show them pictures of nature, pictures of geometric shapes and photographs of urban environments.
The final test concentration were the only ones who looked at wildlife.
It confirmed a guess: green leaves, twigs, flowers and other grace help to regain the ability to focus. Keep this in mind if you have to prepare at night for the exam or to write a report — maybe will save for coffee.
Views of nature improve mood
Another cruel experiment scientists — this time it was researchers from the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands — showed that nature has a calming effect on people not only to stress but also after, giving a kind of meditative effect. Experiment participants were forced to first watch a horror movie, and then either a nature film or picture, which takes place in an urban environment. In addition, subjects were asked to rate the beauty of films about nature and about the city and pass a test of concentration after viewing. The results of the study can already guess: paintings of nature seem more beautiful, help you to recover more quickly after experiencing stress and better focus than scenes of urban life.
