Why Spending Time in Nature Makes us Happier and Healthier with Florence Williams
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Florence Williams shares the profound benefits of being outdoors and in nature, offering you a fresh perspective on self-care and a path toward increased well-being. Discover the scientific evidence that proves how spending time in nature makes us happier, healthier, and even more creative.
In this episode, you'll be able to...
- Recognize the many benefits of spending time in nature and how they're backed by scientific evidence
- That 15 minutes in a forest environment can reduce our cortisol levels
- Understand the concept of Nature Deficit Disorder as we are consumed with modern-day conveniences
- Understand why being in nature can be better than meditation for some people
- Learn why it's important to pay closer attention and connect to our surroundings
- Discover why spending time in nature affects different parts of the brain
- Understand the potent effects that being in nature has on your emotional and mental well-being.
- Learn new ways to engage in nature, even in urban landscapes
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| 0:00.0 | In case you're just recently joining us or however long you've been a listener of the show, |
| 0:04.0 | you may not realize that we have years and years of incredible episodes in our archive. |
| 0:08.6 | We've had so many wonderful guests that we've decided to handpick one of our favorites that |
| 0:13.1 | maybe new to you, but if not, is definitely worth another listen. We hope you'll enjoy this episode |
| 0:18.8 | with Florence Williams. We don't spend that much time in nature. We are sort of epically |
| 0:24.0 | disconnected from it, and because of that, we don't know how it makes us feel. |
| 0:35.6 | Welcome to the one-new feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of |
| 0:40.7 | the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true, |
| 0:47.7 | and yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend to add negativity, |
| 0:53.7 | self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that |
| 1:00.4 | hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes |
| 1:07.0 | conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how |
| 1:12.8 | other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:23.8 | Are you hungry for the inside scoop of Woman Soccer? I'm Sam Muas, and I'm Lynn Williams. |
| 1:35.4 | And we're professional soccer players, best friends, and the hosts of snacks, the only |
| 1:40.0 | women's soccer podcast hosted by active players that gets into the most recent news, gossip, |
| 1:44.7 | and fun of the end of the cell, the women's national team, and the delightful, |
| 1:48.0 | delicious world of snacks. It's a weekly show that features great guests from the world of women's |
| 1:52.4 | soccer, recaps and previews of the biggest matches, and the two of us hanging out with you. |
| 1:56.8 | Listen to stacks on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 2:01.6 | Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Florence Williams, a contributing editor at |
| 2:06.8 | Outside Magazine and a freelance writer for The New York Times, New York Times Magazine, |
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