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Behaviors Morning and Evening Sunlight Exposure Outdoors
“go outside, face the sun, blink as necessary to protect your eyes, but get some sunlight into your eyes every single day or as often as you possibly can, especially on overcast days, okay? That's an absolutely unequivocally science-supported tool that will increase daytime mood focus and alertness and will improve your nighttime sleep.”
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▶ 3:37 Morning and Evening Sunlight Exposure Outdoors Behaviors “go outside, face the sun, blink as necessary to protect your eyes, but get some sunlight into your eyes every single day or as often as you possibly can, especially on overcast days, okay? That's an absolutely unequivocally science-supported tool that will increase daytime mood focus and alertness and will improve your nighttime sleep.” ▷ 5:01 SAD Lamp Tools “Well, then you might consider purchasing a so-called SAD lamp, which is for seasonal affective disorder, which is very bright light that you can look at in the morning for usually about five to 10 minutes. People will put it on their counter while they make their morning coffee, eat their breakfast.” ▷ 6:26 Spend Time Near Moving Bodies of Water Behaviors “There does seem to be some positive health benefits to placing oneself near bodies of water, in particular, moving bodies of water.” ▷ 10:55 Time in Nature Behaviors “There are dozens, if not hundreds of studies that show that if people get out of doors into nature, this could be parks, this could be near a stream, this could be an ocean, any number of different natural environments. And if they do that for anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes, three to seven days per week, indeed, there are demonstrated significant reductions in things like blood pressure, resting heart rate, improvements in sleep, improvements in mood.” ▷ 13:20 Forest Bathing Behaviors “things like forest bathing this is a term coined from some frankly pretty nice studies that were done in Japan in which people place themselves into forest-like environments for a certain period of time. There were control groups where people were not placed into those environments, and the people that did this so-called forest bathing experienced enhanced mental and physical health” ▷ 16:03 Exercise Outdoors Behaviors “And of course, when you're moving out of doors, you also getting that zone two cardio or other forms of physical benefit by elevating your heart rate” ▷ 17:04 Grounding Behaviors “In fact, if it feels good to you, I recommend getting your morning sunlight out of doors with your bare feet on the ground.”