Many years ago, the concept of promoting children's mental development with five senses games caused an uproar. Medical research does point out that by using the brain with five senses, experts have recently applied it to prevent dementia; Activating the five senses also helps to promote physiological function and positive thinking, which is the focus of forest healing and gardening healing! Learning to experience life through the five senses can especially make our understanding of the world more three-dimensional, and then explore the beauty of life.
Mountaineering is a leisure activity that combines the five senses of taste, touch, vision, hearing and smell.
Five kinds of satisfaction-vision
Unless it is maple red season or snowy winter, there are endless green forests sandwiched between winding forest paths. Besides being very interesting to watch, a green glance can also play an unexpected role in life psychology.
1. Green plants can eliminate eye fatigue.
As we all know, green eye protection is the easiest way for eyes to watch green objects. Overlooking the green forest can relax eye muscles and maintain vision. Computer families and low-headed families who have been keeping a close eye on 3C products for a long time can avoid deepening myopia if they can go for a walk in the suburbs at least every weekend and rest their eyes.
Looking at trees can also relieve pain. Texas A&M University. Roger Ulrich, a professor at M University, found that if patients can see the trees outside the window from the ward after operation, the demand for painkillers will be reduced, the recovery speed will be faster, and there will be fewer complications such as headache and vomiting after operation. More than 700,000 people in Taiwan Province suffer from chronic pain that is difficult to treat. If we can overcome psychological barriers and get close to the mountains, we may get rid of dependence, addiction or abuse of painkillers.
Beautiful scenery can soothe the soul.
From the narrow, crowded, noisy and cold concrete jungle to a wide, open, quiet, clean and green natural forest, it is a kind of "space therapy" (environmental therapy), which makes people temporarily escape from the tense and tight-paced daily life, as if the endless forest also helps to open their minds and relax.
Another expert found that letting severely burned patients watch movies with pictures of forests, flowers, waterfalls and oceans, plus soft music, can obviously alleviate the pain and anxiety caused by changing clothes near the wound. I think it is more important for ordinary people to really relieve the pressure when climbing mountains and facing water.
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Five kinds of satisfaction-sense of smell
Take a deep breath when walking in the forest to ensure that you can harvest the three treasures of the forest, that is, the fine powder emitted by the roots, fruits and leaves of plants, the negative ions generated by waterfalls pouring down from a height, and the large amount of oxygen (fresh air) generated by plant photosynthesis. The three treasures of the forest are comfortable and healthy, and the details will be described later.
Five kinds of satisfaction-hearing
Listen to the murmur of the mountain stream on the left and the thunder of the waterfall, the chirp of insects and birds on the right, and the rustling of leaves or the pattering of raindrops ... All kinds of natural music are playing a symphony of nature, which is light and pleasant, and it is found that listening to the sound energy of the stream can lower blood pressure!
Five kinds of satisfaction-taste
Pick wild fruits and vegetables, such as raspberries, sweet chestnuts, acorns, wild lilies and mushrooms. It is the most interesting thing to please adults and children at the same time. Some wild edible plants jump out of the level of snacks and can save lives under special circumstances. For example:
■ When bitten by centipede, portulaca oleracea leaves can be mashed and applied to the affected area.
■ When bitten by a poisonous snake, you can take the juice of Alternanthera philoxeroides and apply the grass residue to the affected area as an emergency treatment before being sent to the hospital.
Unfortunately, if you get lost in the mountains, you can look around for bushes and kudzu vine. Its root tuber (kudzuvine root) is large and its starch content is high, so it can temporarily satisfy hunger and gain time to wait for rescue.
■ When you can't find the water source, you can absorb the juice from the stems and leaves of Begonia to replenish water.
On the way down the mountain, if you are not satisfied, you can find a mountain products shop to sit down and taste mountain pheasants such as fern, hawthorn, celery and Zhu Gui, and bid farewell to the mountains.
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Five kinds of satisfaction-touch
Besides hiking, picnicking and camping, there are many activities that you can enjoy your time in the mountains, among which "tree hugging" is my favorite. Embrace a thousand-year-old tree, feel the ancient and solid power of the tree, touch the bark, feel the temperature, humidity and roughness of the tree, and you can calm your mood; You can also sit on the floor, close to the softness and charm of the soil, or do some yoga or meditation to enjoy a moment of peace; Simply lying on the pile of dead leaves, lying on your back in the blue sky, and emptying your head is also possible. In short, close contact with the forest and the earth can open a dialogue between the body and nature and achieve a soothing effect.
Mountain forest has the magical power to balance body and mind, from which the science of "forest medicine" came into being. I believe there will be more research to prove the benefits of indulging in mountains and rivers. This weekend, we might as well put down the game machine and comics, cancel the sister afternoon tea and take a quiet forest trip!