The Biology of Nature Connectuon

Connecting to Nature

I write extensively about how we are connected to nature through the limbic system. This is based on actual psychological and medical research around stress and my own experience as a Nature Therapy project designer for an NHS psychiatric hospital. Nature is good for you.

The Restoration of Cognition Theory coupled with at the very least gardening and at the very best prosocial wilderness survival skills training in nature. Paired with the Stress Recovery Theory. Nature slows us down to its pace, which is glacial.

When we fully understand how we are already tuned into nature. The "Turn On" as Timothy Leary says, is not LSD, Ayahuaska or psylocibin, these give us glimpses but no route. 

The Turn On is Nature connection activity, We are born tuned already.

Dropping out is easy if you arent constrained by capitalism. 

Fire making is the core starting skill, from which all others flow, becuase we start with plant based fibre tinders abundantly available in the landscape.

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