Volunteers asked to go about normal routine while paying more attention to natural world
The start of a new year: a time for optimism, ambitious plans to improve the world, and the grim suspicion that the first couple of months may well be a miserable slog through the deepest of winter’s gloom.are investigating a simple trick they hope will boost flagging spirits even when the days are short and frost is in the air.
The participants will be instructed, while they are out and about, to pay attention to the natural amid the human-made – the frosty tree beside the tower block, the animal footprints on the snowy pavement, the icicles dangling from the warehouse roof – and make notes on how it makes them feel. The trial will run for two weeks to help people build a habit for noticing nature, but can such a simple trick really hope to have an impact? The simplicity of the intervention should not put people off, Passmore argues. “People tend to discount how good they’re going to feel when they notice nature,” she said. “Part of it is our whole western society. We want a pill, we want something new and improved, we always want the latest.
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