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Sustainable Minimalists

Optimizing Your Walks

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Home & Garden

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Modern life panders to our innate desire to be sedentary, and never has it been more difficult to resist the alluring convenience of screens. Yet walking matters. On today's show author Annabel Abbs-Streets suggests tangible ways to attain the full range of benefits that walking has to offer — physical, emotional, and spiritual — that's backed by latest research.   Here's a preview: [7:00] A laundry list of all the physiological benefits of walking and hiking for movement (get ready to be blown away) [11:00] Why it's important to walk with our eyes, plus: the mental health benefits associated with panoramic vision [16:00] Want more calm in your life? Research finds that these very specific nature sounds matter [21:00] Terpenes, baby! Large trees offer us these psychological and physiological benefits [25:00] Don't shy away from that mud puddle. Soil microbes matter! [30:00] How to best optimize your daily walk for health and wellness benefits   Want more episodes like this one? Check out #384: Forest Bathing 101   This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! Join our (free!) Facebook community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube @sustainableminimalists Say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com.

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0:00.0

It has been a summer of self-care over here. I'm talking lots of hikes, lots of beach trips with the

0:06.4

sunscreen of course, you name it, I'm fitting it in before Labor Day. Wherever you're off to this summer, know that you're taking your microbiome with you. And seeds

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1:00.8

Well, hello there, are listeners and welcome back.

1:05.3

My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 464 of sustainable minimalists. This is a listener-supported show about intentional and eco-friendly

1:17.6

minimalist living. On today's show, we are discussing the benefits of that outdoor walk. So we know walking is good

1:26.8

for our health, but why? Today specifically we're getting into the research backed, keyword research backed, benefits of getting outside.

1:38.1

What is it about trees?

1:39.6

What is it about nature sounds?

1:41.1

What is it about dirt that is so profoundly healthy and rejuvenating for us as human beings.

1:49.1

That's what we're discussing today here to help me unpack this gigantic issue is Annabel Abbs Streets. She's the author of many books, but specifically today we are discussing her book 52 ways to walk the surprising science of

2:07.3

walking for wellness and joy one week at a time and I say, a listener to this show suggested I read this book,

2:16.0

and holy moly I loved every minute of it.

2:19.5

Annabelle, I'm so thrilled to have you on the show.

2:22.5

How are you?

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