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The Advantages of USA-Based Online Meditation Coaches

The Linnaean Cooperation for Studies in Sustainability, Health, and Nature Completed under the Linnaean Collaboration for Studies in Nature, Health, and Sustainability (from here on, the Linnaean Collaboration), this thesis's work is based on a research cooperation centered on the historic Linnaean Gardens of Uppsala University. Professor of environmental psychology erry Hartig and garden director Mats Block started the Linnaean Collaboration in 2010 as the Department of Psychology and the Department of Education moved to the newly constructed Blåsenhus campus. From the west, Blåsenhus views the New Botanic Garden; from the north, the Baroque Garden Viewed through classroom and office windows, as passed through in transportation to and from the workplace, and as settings for rest, conversation, studies, and contemplation, the relocation meant that thousands of students and staff of these major institutions gained daily connection with the gardens. Originally established as a resea

Online Coaching for a Balanced American Life

Many spiritual and scientific traditions have long-standing beliefs that the basis of much human misery is mismatch between our ancient physical and psychic architecture and the standards of modern living. Some 2500 years ago, Siddhārtha Gautama entered the forest after seeing the hardships the people in the agricultural culture of northern India endured. He abandoned society in search of relief from the manufactured and the intellectual, to

contemplate and find the road to release suffering. Then he went back to the people to impart that road of learning. Strict hermits in ancient Greece followed quite similar principles and methods (Fabjański & Brymer Later European Enlightenment thinkers disseminated the knowledge that people inherit a "human nature," that we are part of nature, and that society

cannot supersede our natural rights (Bertram, 2018; Morris & Brown, 2019). Romantics and American transcendentalists who aimed for a truer state of being and knowledge in nature trailed closely (Goodman, 2018; Wayne, 2014). They were also followed by reformists and philanthropists who used urban parks (e.g., Olmsted, 1865) to give the working class access

to fresh air and nature so counteracting

their moral and physical sins in the growing industrial cities. Many have so acted on the belief that a return to the natural world, although it can only be temporary and partial, can bring people to a healthy state of being (see Hartig et al., 2011; Kellert & Wilson, 1995).About seventy percent of Europeans live in cities nowadays (Dye, 2008). Projections for the global

population by 2025 show that similar number will apply. For most individuals, then, access to nature is a restricted resource (Brace).Three sections Adapting To Challenges, What People Tend to Do When There’s Nothing Else to Do, and Transcending the Automatic and Habitual of this thorough summary overview several research fields that share a basic

concern for understanding how people adapt to and interact with changing external conditions. These parts comprise a contman et al., 2019). Furthermore, access to nature is often pabilities and chronic psychophysiological stress (Hartig & Kahn, 2016; Hartig, Mitchell, De Vries, & Frumkin, 2014; von Lindern, Lymeus, & Hartig, 2017). Restoring environments researchers generally use the term "natural setting" pragmatically for those places that are

available to people are perceived as rich in

aturalcontent, and so provide opportunities for "nature experience." Situated as they are in the contrast between urban and increasingly rare and tamed nature,Through individual therapy and training, other developments in psychology, behavioral medicine, occupational health, and related fields have considered ways of mitigating concentration problems, stress, and other ills of modern living (De Leon, Kenkel, & Garcia-Shelton, 2011; Dewe, O’Driscoll, &

Cooper, 2010; Felgoise, 2005; Maslach, Schaufeli, & Leiter, 2001; Rabipour & Raz, 2012; Woolfolk, Lehrer, & Allen, 2007). < Most famously expressed by the concept and practice of mindfulness, viewpoints rooted in Buddhist philosophy and meditation traditions have notably over this period informed and reshaped the understanding of health and adaptation

(Harrington & Dunne, 2015; Kabat-Zinn, 2011; Nathoo, 2016; also see Hayes, 2004; Van Dam et al., 2018). Critics of the secularized mindfulness-based stress reduction (KabatZinn, 1990) course and later adaptations have pointed out that they lack an ethical basis for action against the more general problems that presumably proliferate suffering in modern societies (see

Grossman Van Dam Møllgaard Purser

For many people who live in the modern setting, mindfulness has also been quite helpful for promoting health and well-being as well as for scientific advancement (Davidson & Kaszniak, 2015; Lutz, Dunne, & Davidson, 2007; Sedlmeier et al., 2012). It even shows some potential as a transitional road towards a more ecologically and socially sustainable way of living (Donald et al., 2019; Fischer, Stanszus, Geiger, Grossman, & Schrader, 2017; Schutte &

My work to combine these two fairly different approaches to help individuals manage with the demands of modern life grounds this thorough review in the restorative environments approach and the secularized mindfulness training approach. I refer to the integration as restoration skills training (ReST) with both a theoretical and a pragmatic component. ReST is meant to solve some of the respective shortcomings of the environmental and the training

based techniques by leveraging their respective advantages. Four empirical investigations compare ReST to traditional mindfulness instruction to identify some of the areas in which the combined method can offer special benefits. Next, I map the text so readers will know what to expect and how the various sections lead up to the integration and the empirical studie unequally distributed inside urban populations; so, those who are vulnerable in other ways

Conclusion

also have more limited access to qualitative nature experience (Cox, Hudson, Shanahan, Fuller, & Gaston, 2017; Schwarz et al., 2015). Restoring environments study has developed as a part of environmental psychology since the 1970s in order to comprehend and assess how nature experience could reduce some of the main issues of modern living, including strong demands on people's limited attention regulation ca-The fourth section (Mitigating the

Challenges of Modern Living) then discusses how some specific conditions that prevail in modern societies contribute to widespread problems, and introduces two enduring general approaches to mitigating those challenges: efforts to bring nature to urban populations an efforts to strengthen suffering individuals. These two approaches are represented in

contemporary science and practice in the form of restorative environments research and mindfulness research. The fifth section The Restorative Environment) and the sixth section Mindfulness Training then extenn relevant theory in the respective fields, summarize the research evidence,meant to solve some of the respective shortcomings of the environmental

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