{"id":7489,"date":"2016-05-07T11:38:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T18:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7489"},"modified":"2016-05-20T11:44:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T18:44:46","slug":"transcendental-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/07\/transcendental-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcendental Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/05\/06\/being-around-trees-makes-you-less-stressed--study\/\" target=\"_blank\">from The Telegraph<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Being around trees makes you less stressed \u2013 study<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/authors\/adam-boult\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Boult<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/content\/dam\/science\/2016\/05\/06\/tree-large_trans++eo_i_u9APj8RuoebjoAHt0k9u7HhRJvuo-ZLenGRumA.jpg\" alt=\"People relax behind a Japanese blooming cherry tree at the horticultural exhibition 'ega' in Erfurt, Germany, May 6 2016\" width=\"480\" \/><em><span class=\"lead-asset-copyright-label\">CREDIT:<\/span>\u00a0AP<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Viewing trees helps people become less stressed\u00a0 &#8211; and the effect increases\u00a0the more trees are visible.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eab.sagepub.com\/content\/48\/4\/607.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a>\u00a0by researchers at University of Illinois has confirmed the long-held understanding that natural scenery can be a useful tool in helping reduce psychological stress.<\/p>\n<p>The research team, led by Dr Bin Jiang, subjected 158 volunteers to mildly stressful scenarios, including preparing a speech and delivering it to a group of people, after which they were asked to perform a subtraction task in front of judges and a video camera.<\/p>\n<p>After undertaking the stress-inducing activities, the volunteers used a VR headset to view one of a selection of six-minute 360-degree videos featuring urban areas with variable amounts of visible tree canopy coverage.<\/p>\n<p>The participants\u2019 levels of stress were measured by self-reported questionnaire \u2013 and the results revealed a positive, linear association between the density of trees and recovery from stress recovery.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/05\/06\/being-around-trees-makes-you-less-stressed--study\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Telegraph<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Telegraph Being around trees makes you less stressed \u2013 study by\u00a0Adam Boult CREDIT:\u00a0AP Viewing trees helps people become less stressed\u00a0 &#8211; and the effect increases\u00a0the more trees are visible. A\u00a0new study\u00a0by researchers at University of Illinois has confirmed the long-held understanding that natural scenery can be a useful tool in helping reduce psychological [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}