From the blurb: “Outer Peace with Florence Williams: Finding The Fix.“We can microdose awe.” Award-winning author of The Nature Fix, Florence Williams, explains what science says about the human body’s deep responsiveness to natural environments, in this exploration of Outer Peace”
Today, you can watch the video and check in on how it makes you feel as you watch. If you want to know more, here is a review of Florences’s book which closes with a sweet quote: “Awe, which many people experience in nature, is, according to one study, associated with increased generosity toward other people. Maybe what we get out of nature is a sense of connection to the larger community of life. I know how that sounds: at best like an aspiration dressed up as a hypothesis, at worst like woolly-headed romanticism. But here’s the thing — science is on its way to proving it.”
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