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What the Pandemic Taught Me About Nature Therapy
“The average adult consumes five times more information every day than their counterpart 50 years ago” — Forbes
These days we all spend a lot of time indoors and in front of screens. In fact, a recent poll estimates that some adults will spend roughly 44 years of their life staring at screens. And, sadly, the pandemic increased screen time as people worked or attended school from home.
When the lockdown first began, I remember feeling exhausted from the constant virtual meetings followed by after hours virtual social events and then even more time spent in from of the T.V. or on the phone binging virtual entertainment.
I didn’t realize it immediately, but the burnout and stress that impacted my health was directly related to the increase in screen time.
Humans simply weren’t made to spend so much time on digital devices and in many ways this kind of always-connected-through-technology lifestyle is doing us more harm than good.
I started thinking about this during a much-needed nature retreat from work during the pandemic. I felt so much better after spending a weekend in the outdoors and I wanted to figure out the science behind it.
