{"id":706,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/15\/country-walks-boost-your-mood-experts-find\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:55","slug":"country-walks-boost-your-mood-experts-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/country-walks-boost-your-mood-experts-find\/","title":{"rendered":"Country walks boost your mood, experts find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-07-15 16:34:40<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Having a walk in the countryside can stop time from rushing by and lower levels of depression, stress and anxiety.<BR><br \/>\nA study conducted by scientists at Carleton University, Canada, found people who spent time in a park \u201cfelt slower in nature\u201d compared to when they had a walk of a similar duration in a city. <BR><br \/>\nIn the research paper \u2018Time Grows on Trees\u2019 &#8211; which can be found in \u2019The Journal of Environmental Psychology\u2019 &#8211; the team wrote: \u201cWhen one is trying to make the most of one&#8217;s time, spending it on a pleasant activity in nature may not only increase psychological health in a number of ways, but may also provide the illusion of having spent more time enjoying the activity than one really did.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nExperts noted participants who went on country walks felt happier, and said they believed to have been immersed in nature for a long time, even if the walk was brief.<BR><br \/>\nRuth Ogden, Professor of the Psychology of Time at Liverpool John Moores University, explained: \u201cIt\u2019s not just our sense of time in the moment which appears to be altered by the natural world, it&#8217;s also our sense of the past and future.<BR><br \/>\n\u201cPrevious research shows that spending time in nature helps to shift our focus from the immediate moment towards our future needs. So, rather than focusing on the stress of the demands on our time, nature helps us to see the bigger picture.<BR><br \/>\n\u201cThis can help us to prioritise our actions so that we meet our long-term goals rather than living in a perpetual state of \u2018just about keeping our head above water\u2019.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nA separate study from psychologist Ricardo Correia at the University of Turku in Finland found those who stayed in a city felt \u201ctime poor\u201d compared to those who spent time in leafy-green areas.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-07-15 16:34:40 Having a walk in the countryside can stop time from rushing by and lower levels of depression, stress and anxiety. A study conducted by scientists at Carleton University,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}