Researchers found that anything from a stroll in the park to a run through woodland can have a positive effect on people suffering from depression and anxiety.
The study also showed that the positive effect on people’s mental health was 50 per cent more than they might expect from going to the gym.
The researchers at Glasgow University looked at natural and non-natural environments for physical activity, including walking, running and cycling, and found that being around trees and grass lowered brain stress levels.
The study, led by Prof Richard Mitchell, polled nearly 2000 physically active people in the 2008 Scottish Health Survey.
Only activities carried out in a natural environment outdoors were found to be associated with a lower risk of poor mental health.
The following is the Dharma Nationalist position on gun control, the second amendment and the natural right to self-defense.
While the government is tasked with providing law enforcement services, the individual, family and local community shall always be recognized and respected as the first line of defense against crime. Thus, all citizens shall bear the right to be armed in any manner each citizen deems necessary to defend himself against the criminal element. Individuals and families have the right to organize themselves into local crime watch and protection associations, and to thus assist local law enforcement agencies in their tasks.
Vegetarianism is so much more than just a diet. It is a decision that has tremendous health, political, environmental and spiritual implications. Vegetarianism is a choice to live your life to the utmost ethical degree. In this amazing video, one of the world’s most qualified and authentic Dharma teachers explains the benefits of vegetarianism with more clarity and depth than has ever been witnessed before. Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya reveals the deepest truths about vegetarianism in his famously celebrated style of no-nonsense logic, loving frankness, and striking honesty. If you are interested in exploring vegetarianism, or even if you have been vegetarian for years, be prepared to learn more about this ancient practice than you have ever dreamed possible.
The media (t.v., movies, newspapers, magazines, book publishing conglomerates, and all major Internet corporations like Google and Facebook) is the greatest enemy of freedom today. People are forced to live in a media-constructed version of reality, and not in reality itself. Reject the shackles of this artificially imposed reality. Reject the false messages of the controlled media. Embrace instead the unalterable truth of your own eternal consciousness and of God’s unlimited love. Reality is not the perverse nightmare that the media falsely portrays. Reality is beautiful. Reality is good. God is true reality.
The Dharma Nation Movement is an innovative ideology that has rejected the past inadequacies of both the Right and the Left. We call for a government based upon Natural Law. Natural Law is Freedom!
