CONNECTING WITH NATURE!
Mental Health Awareness Week runs from 10th-16th May in 2021, and its theme is ‘Nature’.
The Mental Health Foundation who host Mental Health Awareness week define nature as any environment in which we can use our senses to experience the natural world. This could include the countryside, a park or garden, coast, lakes and rivers, wilderness, plants or wildlife closer to home. It could also include nature that you can see or interact with in or from your home.
The 2 main goals are:
1) To inspire more people to connect with nature in new ways and to notice the impact of this on their mental health
2) To convince decision makers that access to nature is a mental health and social justice issue as well as an environmental one.
Research done by the Mental Health Foundation on the mental health impacts of the pandemic in the UK showed that going for walks outside was the top coping strategy for those taking part in the research and 45% reported being in green spaces as vital to our mental health.
This calls for us to plant more gardens,flowers, safeguard parks and forests as it is a way of helping unwind the full packed minds in a time like this.
Getting to interact with nature either by watering your small tree nursery or flowers at home and see the seeds shoot and flowers bloom, waking up to chirping birds, the sound of a roaring waterfall and the cool breeze passing through your hair when you doing your walk in the forests or parks is really a great reliver to the brain hence creating about wellness of ones mental health.
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