We explore health - at the individual, collective and planetary level. It’s a big topic, and we offer personal reflections as well as findings, ideas, and prompts from the natural world to inform and inspire you as you reflect on what health means for you – as an individual, organisation, or community.
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References:
~2: “All Across the Land” by Helen Macdonald, Vogue, August 2020
~2: Hippocrates: “Nature itself is the best physician.”
~3: T.S. Eliot: “The whole world is our hospital.”
~5: The Natural Academy -- https://www.naturalacademy.org/
~6: World Health Organisations: “Health”: “the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”
~7: Arukah Network -- https://www.arukahnetwork.org/: “Arukah”: “A Hebrew word meaning health, healing and restoration, whether physical, mental or spiritual.”
~11: Farmers’ mental health and suicide, various articles e.g. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/dec/23/farmers-and-mental-distress-im-still-a-bit-ashamed-about-my-story
~14:How Hospital Gardens Help Patients Heal, Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nature-that-nurtures/
~14: The Healing Power of Nature, TIME magazine (hypertension reference). https://time.com/4405827/the-healing-power-of-nature/
~16: Richard Louv as quoted in “Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health” by Jim Robbins, Yale Environment 360 --
https://e360.yale.edu/features/ecopsychology-how-immersion-in-nature-benefits-your-health
~17: “Spending at least 120 minutes a week in nature is associated with good health and wellbeing” by Mathew P. White et al, Nature --
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44097-3
~18: Forest bathing -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/08/forest-bathing-japanese-practice-in-west-wellbeing
~19: “Out of the Woods” by Luke Turner
~20: “Croyde's cold water swim tackles mental health” -- https://www.radioexe.co.uk/news-and-features/local-news/cold-water-swimming-trail-to-beat-mental-health/
~23: “The short-term stress response – Mother nature’s mechanism for enhancing protection and performance under conditions of threat, challenge, and opportunity”, ScienceDirect -- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091302218300293
~24: English Pastoral by James Rebanks
~26: “Only 60 Years of Farming Left If Soil Degradation Continues” -- https://www.scientificamerican.com/articdale/only-60-years-of-farming-left-if-soil-degradation-continues/
~29: Survival International -- https://www.survivalinternational.org/progresscankill
~31: “Indigenous wisdom can heal the planet” -- https://thehill.com/changing-america/opinion/497849-indigenous-wisdom-can-heal-the-planet
~32: “Alcohol and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples”, Australian Government Department of Health -- https://www.health.gov.au/health-topics/alcohol/alcohol-throughout-life/alcohol-and-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-peoples
~34: Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index (2019) in “These Are the World’s Healthiest Nations” -- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-24/spain-tops-italy-as-world-s-healthiest-nation-while-u-s-slips
~45: Rachel and Stephen Kaplan’s “Attention Restoration Theory” -- https://e360.yale.edu/features/ecopsychology-how-immersion-in-nature-benefits-your-health
~46: “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry
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