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Why does nature calm anxiety?

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Nature Supports Recovery of a Directed Attention Fatigue

Nature has the ability to support recovery of a directed attention fatigue more just rest, because there are soft, fascinating qualities in nature. These objects let our attention drift away and recharge our direct attention stores. And you find these soft focus objects most in nature. But what about places without access nature? Snake river correctional facility is an oregan in the united states. I can think of few other places on earth more disconnected from nature. It holds some of the most dangerous prisoners in the state at maximum security, and sometimes alone in their cells. Our eco therabis, patricia hasback, was asked to go to the prisons i m u, or intensive management unit, and see what they could

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