04 Thursday Apr 2019
Posted in health
link: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190404074915.htm
Taking at least 20 minutes out of your day to stroll or sit in a place that makes you feel in contact with nature will significantly lower your stress hormone levels. That’s the finding of a study that has established for the first time the most effective dose of an urban nature experience.
10 Friday Feb 2012
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I had to work today, unusual as I normally work 4 ten hour days Monday through Thursday. I was doing an update on a production system whose primary users don’t work Fridays either. Anyway, it turned out to be a truly ugly day. The kind that gives one gray hair, and I already have lots of “silver highlights”.
When I got home and sat out on the patio for a bit, Annie came over and kept asking for attention by pushing against me with her head. I petted her and we both felt better. Then Suzie jumped up into my lap, and we shared some affection. In not much time the screaming headache I came home with subsided. No drugs involved. Thanks, dogs, for helping me today. My mental well being improved dramatically. They showed me what is important. All I had to do was pay attention.
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