{"id":829,"date":"2025-02-25T14:17:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T15:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/?p=829"},"modified":"2025-03-06T13:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:04:09","slug":"need-a-simple-way-to-destress-stop-and-notice-nature-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/need-a-simple-way-to-destress-stop-and-notice-nature-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Need a Simple Way to Destress? Stop and Notice Nature, Experts Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>An Edmonton researcher says simply noticing nature can boost your mood and help beat the winter blues.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/thecurrent\/noticing-nature-experts-1.7434315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the CBC article \u2192<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/thecurrent\/noticing-nature-experts-1.7434315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-76076 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Microblog-template-1-1024x1024-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"background-color: #f5bc41;padding: 15px;color: #2e2e2e\"><strong>\u201cWhen people notice nature, and not necessarily even just spend extra time, but just [notice] it, we know it enhances our positive emotions\u201d <\/strong><strong>\u2014 <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #2e2e2e\" href=\"https:\/\/concordia.ab.ca\/faculty-arts\/departments\/psychology\/faculty\/full-time-faculty-psychology\/holli-anne-passmore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holli-Anne Passmore<\/a>, professor of psychology at Concordia University of Edmonton.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Nature Canada is working on establishing more National Urban Parks<\/h2>\n<p>Make a donation and help us bring more nature to Canadians! <span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Wouldn\u2019t it be great to experience the outdoors in your own neighbourhood while also providing habitat for wildlife?<\/strong> Nature Canada is working diligently with partners across the country to establish more National Urban Parks!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"btn btn-primary nc-button nc-button--quiz\" href=\"https:\/\/donate.naturecanada.ca\/page\/153010\/donate\/1?ea.tracking.id=blue_owl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Make a donation!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/naturecanada.ca\/news\/need-a-simple-way-to-destress-stop-and-notice-nature-experts-say\/\">Need a Simple Way to Destress? Stop and Notice Nature, Experts Say<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/naturecanada.ca\">Nature Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Edmonton researcher says simply noticing nature can boost your mood and help beat the winter blues. Read the CBC article \u2192 \u201cWhen people notice nature, and not necessarily even just spend extra time, but just [notice] it, we know it enhances our positive emotions\u201d \u2014 Holli-Anne Passmore, professor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ibslhk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}