What it is: Spending time in natural environments—like parks, forests, or gardens—to engage your senses and mind.
Why it helps:
Reduces Stress and Anxiety: Nature exposure has been linked to lower levels of stress hormones and improved mood.
Enhances Attention and Focus: Engaging with natural settings can improve concentration and reduce symptoms of ADHD.
Boosts Cognitive Function: Interacting with nature can lead to better memory and cognitive performance.
Minimum Recommended Time:
At least 15 minutes per day in nature is associated with good health and wellbeing.
Pro Tips to Maximize Benefits:
Engage Your Senses: While in nature, take a moment to notice the sensations around you—feel the breeze, listen to the rustling leaves, or observe the colors and textures. This mindfulness can enhance the calming effects.
Combine with Movement: Activities like walking, stretching, or gentle exercises in a natural setting can amplify the benefits by promoting physical health alongside mental well-being.
Curious to go deeper? Our upcoming online course will guide you through easy, powerful ways to use nature as medicine for ADHD. Hop on the waitlist and get early access (and a sweet discount).
Melanie Sirois
My experience and interests give me a unique understanding of:
- How to navigate and develop mastery in the face of huge emotions, triggers, emptiness, and relational fears
- Learn to fill yourself up and develop the peace of sustainable unconditional self-love, self-trust, and self-worth
- Go from a scarcity mindset aimed at trying to get needs met to an abundance mindset that feels the fulfilment of sharing with and elevating others
- Develop sustainable confidence and trust that isn't conditional on outside circumstances