#340 Happiness - Happiness In Nature
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
A recent study came out showing the positive correlation between being in nature and increased levels of happiness and less loneliness. Screen time was correlated with greater unhappiness and loneliness. But how do we change habits that we have ingrained in us? Come explore in this new Happiness Podcast.
Stefan Stieger, David Lewetz, Viren Swami. Emotional Well-Being Under Conditions of Lockdown: An Experience Sampling Study in Austria During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Happiness Studies, 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Sometimes we can all go through periods of time where we're depressed or sad. |
| 0:12.0 | But I have some really good news. There's a recent study done that looked at what could help improve us when we're feeling low or depressed. |
| 0:21.0 | And what it found was not medication, not drinking, not distracting ourselves |
| 0:29.0 | with our iPhones, but instead getting out in nature. |
| 0:34.0 | Now if you've been listening to this podcast for a while, |
| 0:38.0 | you know I'm a big advocate of getting out in nature. |
| 0:41.0 | But I really love it when science confirms what seems so obvious to |
| 0:46.9 | many of us. Being outside is just good for our souls. I grew up in the Midwest and getting outside was a very normal part of my |
| 0:56.1 | life, but then I went to college and then off to university, and when I finally got to graduate school, I realized I had become somewhat of an achievement |
| 1:06.4 | a hollic. |
| 1:07.4 | I wanted to do really well in school because I wanted to keep going. |
| 1:11.0 | I was working my first master's degree at Princeton, and I wanted to go going. I was working in my first master's degree at Princeton and I wanted to go on and get another |
| 1:15.5 | master's in a PhD in clinical psychology so I knew I had to do very well in school. But thankfully on my third year there just when I was graduating, |
| 1:26.1 | I came to terms with this achievement part of me and how I needed to change it, |
| 1:30.8 | because I was missing out on life. It was a beautiful day I didn't have any |
| 1:35.7 | school work to do because I had graduated and I was just lying out on this magnificent |
| 1:41.1 | lawn looking up at the clouds watching them go by, and I realize I really |
| 1:47.6 | had not been doing much of this my entire three years that I was here. |
| 1:52.0 | And I really came to terms that I needed to change my |
| 1:54.8 | desire to achieve with the desire to live. So when I came out to California to |
| 2:00.2 | finish my PhD I did. I spent time in nature. I got actively involved in |
| 2:06.2 | hiking and the Southern California Sierra Club and it was wonderful. It really helped balance me and I made sure I spent time |
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