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JHH 6.3 Nov 09 Layout Volume 16 Issue 1 Spring 2019 JOURNALOF holistic healthcare Re-imagining healthcare •The nature–human connection •Gaian psychology •Reclaiming nature-based practice •Goethian science •Super-resilience •Ecotherapy for young people •Health and wellbeing through nature •Your world in words •The fractal effect •Nurturing wellbeing •Illuminations of nature •Poetry – Fiona Hamilton – Peter Owen-Jones – Larry Butler Nature connections Your Invitation Weleda Gardens Open Day Sunday 14 July 2019 11am - 4pm The Field, Hassock Lane, Heanor, Derbyshire, DE75 7JH A610 IKEA Langley Mill Station A608 Shipley A6096 A6007 Heanor R The Field oad Ilkeston Weleda Aldi We are Tesco here A6007 A rare opportunity to visit our private gardens and ZLOGĭRZHUPHDGRZWRJHWDQLQVLJKWLQWRWKHSODQWV WKDWDUHDWWKHKHDUWRIRXUSURGXFWV&RPHDORQJ 3URĬWVJRWRVXSSRUWWKHZRUN DQGOHDUQDOODERXW'HUE\VKLUH:LOGOLIH7UXVWWRR RI'HUE\VKLUH:LOGOLIH7UXVW DQGORFDOLQLWLDWLYHV Tickets - Single £5, Family £10 For tickets go to: Derbyshire www.weleda.co.uk/page/openday W i l d l i f e Tr u s t JOURNALOF holistic Contents healthcare ISSN 1743-9493 Editorial . 2 The nature–human connection and health . 3 Published by Alex Laird British Holistic Medical Association Gaian psychology in practice. 7 West Barn, Chewton Keynsham An outcome study of groupwork to address concerns about the world BRISTOL BS31 2SR Chris Johnstone [email protected] www.bhma.org Reclaiming nature-based practice for the modern world . 11 From green care to soulcentric rites of passage Reg. Charity No. 289459 Roger Duncan Managing mental health with nature . 15 Editor-in-chief Paul Brook David Peters The Earth Says (after Hokasai Says) . 18 [email protected] Larry Butler Editorial Board Learning super-resilience from nature . 20 Dr William House (Chair) Systemic responses to systemic overload Dr Mari Kovandzic Alan Heeks Professor David Peters Ecotherapy: the benefits for young people . 24 Dr Thuli Whitehouse Jess Bayley Dr Antonia Wrigley Nurturing wellbeing through nature . 29 Melanie Vincent Production editor Edwina Rowling Health and wellbeing in nature. 34 [email protected] Ewan Hamnett & Gareth Morgan Illuminations of nature . 38 Advertising Fiona Hamilton The journal of holistic healthcare has a Welcome inspiration – the vitality of natural inclusion strong online circulation both nationally in human wellness . 40 and internationally with thousands of Alan Rayner page views every month. The journal is available in hard copy and online. Poetry . 46 To advertise email Peter Owen-Jones [email protected] Your world in words: connecting to oneself and nature . 48 Gazelle Buchholtz & Ann Hodson Products and services offered by advertisers in these pages are not Fractals: the hidden beauty and potential therapeutic necessarily endorsed by the BHMA. effect of the natural world. 52 Lucy Loveday Design Researching the potential therapeutic action of www.karenhobden.com medicinal plants using a post-reductionist method. 54 Michael Evans Cover illustration William House . 60 The Crossing 2018 (in homage to Alex Hartley’s Dropper), edition variable Reviews. 61 reduction woodcut, 155 x 121cm © Tom Hammick courtesy of Hammick Editions Ltd/Bridgeman Images Printing Unless otherwise stated, material is copyright BHMA and reproduction for educational, Spinnaker Print Ltd non-profit purposes is welcomed. However we do ask that you credit the journal. With this exception no part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any other means – graphically, electronically, or mechanically, including photocopying, recording, taping or information storage and retrieval systems – without the prior written permission from the British Holistic Medical Association. Every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of material published in the Journal of Volume 16 G Issue 1 Holistic Healthcare. However, the publishers will not be liable for any inaccuracies. The Spring 2019 views expressed by contributors are not necessarily those of the editor or publisher. 1 David Peters Editorial Editor-in-Chief Humankind is hard-wired for should be full of gratitude and respect for these gifts, nature connection but paradoxically industrialisation, while raising billions of people out of poverty (and therefore good for In the 1970s Roger Ulrich found that patients whose human wellbeing), has achieved this at an environmental hospital window looked out on green space needed cost that’s more than our planet can afford. In its ever- shorter post-op recovery times: they were less anxious increasing hunger for food, energy, water, wood and and took fewer painkillers. Since then, studies abound ores, our species is plundering Earth and making it a exploring how nature-connectedness reduces stress, dumping ground for waste. Humankind has ushered anxiety and depression and boosts self-esteem. Summers in the Anthropocene age whose feverish global and Vivian (2018) review this research. To pick only a industrial-consumer culture is overheating the planet few studies: people dealing with a life-threat often have and unravelling the web of life. difficulty concentrating, but women with breast cancer If our biophilic connection with all of life can boost who walked in a park, watched birds, or tended flowers, mental health and healing, we ought not to be surprised achieved better focus after surgery; having sight of nature if, on the other hand, nature deprivation were harmful. improved self-discipline in inner city girls; children living Joanna Macy proposes that because of our biophilic in rural areas were less stressed by adversity than urban interdependence, the life-world’s suffering is mirrored children; viewing natural scenes reduced college in the human unconscious. Our young people, whose examination stress; nurses taking breaks outside in natural mental wellbeing is on the decline, may be the canaries settings returned to work more refreshed, relaxed, and in the coalmine. If so, their recent rebellion could be the energised. start of a healthy push back, for depression thrives on Researchers confirm what common sense tells us: learned helplessness. And though denial is an under - getting outdoors does good things for mental wellbeing – standable defence against unbearable feelings, let’s hope in one survey almost everyone asked to remember a youth’s immune response to ecocide is contagious; positive childhood experience came up with a moment otherwise, overwhelmed by the enormity of what we are outside (Dr William Bird, personal communication). But witnessing, the older generation will be too numbed and more remarkable is its impact on the body. People forest paralysed to rebel for life. bathing in Japan and South Korea have decreased levels of The changes in human attitudes and behaviours being the stress hormone cortisol, lower pulse rate and blood demanded by the ecological crisis require a compassionate pressure, and heart rate variability that indicates rest and shift in our relationship to the other than human world. recovery (Song et al, 2016). Even when adjusted for other For we are wired to protect what we love. If that is too health inequalities, people with good access to urban much to expect of a species so caught up in flight or fight, green spaces have better physical health outcomes: then at least a utilitarian approach still has merit. For we reduced cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, obesity protect what we value, especially if it pays us back many and risk of type 2 diabetes, and improved pregnancy times over. Nature connection is good for us, and if outcomes (WHO, 2016). allowed to, Gaia will continue to clean our air and water, For five million or so years our human form and regulate climate, and co-create sustainable food and physiology evolved close to wild nature. In the embodied shelter. It would be disastrous to take for granted these operating system that runs our physiology, ‘memories’ of incalculably valuable natural services, and ignore the this evolutionary past, encoded in our DNA, run in the ancient bonds that tie us into the other than human world. background. When we make a nature connection this In this bumper issue of JHH we explore communion ecological self triggers cellular messages of belonging and with the natural world and its impact on body, mind and safety. We are not well-adapted to the unrelenting spirit. The images and poetry woven through this issue confined urban/industrial environment. It is not our celebrate the art as well as the science of nature ecological niche, so when thrust into the artificial space connectedness. and pace of modern life we run too hot. Nature connectedness reboots us out of this low-level stressed References state and back to our evolutionary default mode. In short, Song C, Ikei H, Miyazaki Y (2016) Physiological effects of nature we human beings seek connection with nature and other therapy: a review of the research in Japan. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 13 (8), 781. forms of life because it calms us down. Summers JK, Vivian DN (2018) Ecotherapy – a forgotten ecosystem The biologist Edward O Wilson calls this innate urge service: a review. Front Psychol. 3 (9), 1389. biophilia, and the physiology of biophilia might explain WHO (2016) Urban green spaces and health. Copenhagen: WHO why nature-connectedness can enhance healing. We Regional Office for Europe. 2 © Journal of holistic healthcare G Volume 16 Issue 1 Spring 2019 ON BEING NATURAL The nature–human connection and health Alex Laird Wondering at the perfection of an autumn morning as a child on the shores of Loch Medical herbalist Lomond, I had an epiphany – nature was saying something about how to live. This eventually led to my move from television to aromatherapy, working with HIV drug users and hospital staff, then to herbal medicine and founding the charity Living Medicine. Nature, through its extraordinary design within and outside us, is for me the ultimate teacher. In my practice, I love learning about and teaching about how life and our bodies thrive through foods, plants, people and the rest of nature. Exchange between all cultures is central to Living Medicine’s self-care courses for patients and public.
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