One may immediately think of religion hearing the word 'spirituality', but that's not correct. Spirituality is a multidimensional construct that defines relationships with community, self, environment and religious components. The word spirituality is used to unite many things together. While nature plays a very vital role for boosting spirituality. Here's how:
Nature heals Body and Soul
Grounding studies is one kind of emerging field that deals with the positive effects of connecting the earth on your body. The earth vibrates with an electromagnetic frequency, which connects to the human body, it is completely conductive. Whenever your body touches the earth, human cells freeze immediately. In this way the body naturally starts recovering. This makes you sleep well. It also reduces stress and anxiety.
Nature builds Sense of Connection
When you are surrounded by technology in your office, your mind starts thinking to leave everything and go home to relax. But nature allows you to relax and get connected to everything around you. One can enjoy all kinds of experiences while staying near nature. From the noise of birds to the smell of grass, everything gives you positive vibes. One may not feel to run away from those things, but would always want to be connected.
Nature improves Mental Condition
Nature deals effectively with mental health issues. Even psychologists now turn to ecotherapy as a treatment for mental health. Echotherapy is essentially the practice of being near nature to heal your mental health. It can be anything from adventure therapy to arts and crafts to animal-assisted therapy. Everything you can do outside to improve your mental health with the help of your counselor comes under echotherapy. This type of therapy can help reduce depression, stress, or anxiety and even builds up a good connection in relationships.
Nature develops Confidence and Personality
Exploring nature can give people opportunities to learn many new things. A trek, camping or any scenic visit could be a new and different experience for a person to know the nature closely, to learn from it, and apply that into his life. Nature also helps one make social interactions more convenient, that is, it helps boosting confidence. By staying connected with nature, your physical as well as mental health is improved which makes you positive from inside that helps develop an impressive personality too.
Nature assists in healthy BMI
Studies have shown that being around nature can help a lot for a healthy Body Mass Index (BMI). It is very important to have a healthy BMI and iving near nature helps maintain this. A healthy BMI further indicates that you are not suffering from obesity, heart disease or any serious problems. Living in the midst of nature is an exercise in itself.