It is a close, intimate relationship that binds the human being to the water environment that can bring many benefits to our body and also to the mind. In Blu Mind, Wallace J. Nichols explains why we should be more in contact with the sea or the river, even if only through our imagination.
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It is a close, intimate relationship that binds the human being to the water environment that can bring many benefits to our body and also to the mind. In Blu Mind, Wallace J. Nichols explains why we should be more in contact with the sea or the river, even if only through our imagination.
We instinctively know that being close to the water makes us more vital and more serene, reduces stress and gives us a sense of peace. But why? Try to answer the biologist Nichols who speaks of a magical bond, indescribable but at the same time real.
According to science, simple sight and the sound of the water of the waves of the sea or the river flowing can increase our well-being by lowering cortisol, increasing serotonin and leading us towards relaxation.
Now Nichols talks about the benefits of being in a boat instead. Blue Mind, or the blue mind, is opposed to Red Mind, or the red mind. While the former is characterized by calm, peace, serenity and a sense of happiness associated with the water factor, the latter encompasses all the stress associated with urbanization and busy life.
The boundary between the two 'minds' is precisely the relationship with water.
“I have done a tremendous amount of research into the benefits of being in contact with water. The starting point is to think that as soon as we get into a boat the noise of traffic, television, offices and the city disappears ”, explains the marine biologist.
Somehow traveling, sailing on a boat even for a short time automatically activates a state of rest. It provides the means to get out of the daily grind, allowing our brains to reset, think beyond our current circumstances, and connect to something greater than ourselves.
Mind and water, the benefits
As we said there are advantages not to be underestimated in the proximity to water. According to Nichols, who has been studying this link for years, increasing water brings these benefits:
- it increases calm and decreases anxiety much more effectively than drugs
- expands creativity, artistic and otherwise
- increases generosity and compassion
- increases personal success
- improves our overall health and well-being
- strengthens our connection with the world of nature, and vice versa
Here's what Wallace writes. J. Nichols
Take a deep breath and imagine the leap ...
water fills the light, sound, air and your mind.
Now open your eyes, all around you you see only blue. Breathe. Listens.
Experience the sense of well-being that being immersed in water gives you.
It is useless to deny it, perhaps useless even to ask ourselves why, but you are happy.
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