#39 Health Benefits of Nature
Health benefits of nature; please step outside; I feel good! – but why?; evolution and Mother Nature; chained to a desk in a premature coffin; cold and SAD; winter refugees to Bali or “up north”; Health Benefit #1: the Forest Effect, or shinrin-yoku; going bush in Craigie, Joondalup; Health Benefit #2: the Grounding Effect, or the body electric; Health Benefit #3: the Sunlight Effect; Dr Jack Kruse’s brilliant quantum-schwantum; what we lesser mortals can do every day
Again*, this is an extensively adapted and much longer version of an article I recently wrote for The Explorer, Bawah Reserve’s inflight magazine for the resort’s own seaplanes. (*The last was 5 Great Mental Health Habits – click here for that one, if you missed it.) These seaplanes are the only way to get to this enchanting resort. The only way, that is, unless you have a private yacht to take you there.
And click here for my January 2024 post on Bawah in my other blog, Travels with Verne and Roy. For the record, we were lucky enough to visit the resort again just last month (September 2025), but I haven’t yet got around to chronicling those three lovely days.
Health Benefits of Nature: I Feel Good!
Wow, I feel good, I knew that I would now
I Got You – James Brown and the Famous Flames
Why do we feel so good after spending time outdoors?