Time in Nature
Get outdoors into nature for 10 to 30 minutes per session, 3 to 7 days per week, or as often as you safely can. Natural settings can include parks, streams, oceans, forests, and similar environments. Associated with reductions in blood pressure and resting heart rate and improvements in sleep, mood, and overall mental and physical health. Weekly walks in nature are emphasized, and if you miss a week due to weather or travel, increase nature time the following week or whenever possible.
“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.”