healing
This is Your Brain on Nature
“Scientific studies have already begun and continue to demonstrate the powerful healing aspects of Nature. One of the earliest studies, published in 1984 Science, noticed that patients who were recovering from surgery healed more quickly and required less pain medication when placed in hospital rooms that had views of Nature, versus patients placed in rooms facing brick walls. Why is that? Perhaps it is due to when we are in Nature, our brain goes automatically into the involuntary, indirect attention-mode that is connected with the healing alpha-wave brain state. Research suggests that even a short walk in the park during your lunch break, touching a tree on your walk to the office, or literally “stopping to smell the roses” once in a while is beneficial, as it is an evolutionary trait that our brains evolved to do. Furthermore, even passive contact with Nature such as viewing an open pasture in your car or hearing the sound of birds chirping from your window can have the same powerful benefits as an actual immersion in Nature.”
To read the rest of the article, go to http://livingyourlight.posterous.com/how-nature-heals .
The Principles & Guidelines of Attitudinal Healing
Here is a link to a site where you read the 12 Principles of Attitudinal Healing and the 12 Children’s Principles. Attitudinal Healing was created by Dr Jerry Jampolsky, a Stanford educated child psychiatrist. The Principles emerged out of Dr Jampolsky’s early work with terminally ill children, individually, in groups with the children, and in groups with their parents. The power of choice in even the most challenging circumstances, the power of our minds and our thoughts, our attitudes was something that Dr J saw so clearly and says that the children taught him. He has carried that work started then on to thousands of people in 50 countries around the world. Here is the link: http://www.ahinternational.org/about/principles-of-attitudinal-healing .