{"id":32,"date":"2023-03-21T23:25:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T23:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalhealingviews.com\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2023-05-18T16:55:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T16:55:24","slug":"soft-fascination-attention-restoration-therapy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/naturalhealingviews.com\/index.php\/soft-fascination-attention-restoration-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft Fascination &#8211; ART"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SOFT FASCINATION<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Soft Fascination is an aspect of Attention Restoration Therapy, the tenet that states being in or around Nature and Natural Scenes is stress-reducing, relaxing, and genuinely healing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Hard Fascination&#8221; is probably your daily routine, the 9-to-5 environment, the busy, noisy, demanding environment. It precipitates a sort of brain overload; stimuli comes at you from all directions, demanding your attention. By lunchtime, you find yourself over-aroused (over-stimulated) and stressed. These every-day, day in and day out, experiences lead to physical discomfort, dis-regulation, and ultimately disease. Your brain really isn&#8217;t designed to handle this constant barrage. Working in these unnatural ways causes all sorts of mental and physical problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Soft Fascination&#8221; is the term applied to the activity of being, basically, actively inactive; meandering instead of rushing, enjoying instead of laboring. Instead of some outside source demanding your attention and intervention, you restfully allow your mind to focus on what attracts it in a peaceful and enjoyable way, a bright pink wildflower beside the path, a Monarch Butterfly flittering by. This peace is found in a natural setting with the relaxing sounds of birds, bees, flowing water, or evening crickets. Your body was made to work with Nature, not against it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ATTENTION REASTORATION THERAPY<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I knew I had rediscovered something that could benefit many stressed out, chronically ill people when this very exciting discovery of a forgotten finding &#8211; Attention Restoration Therapy &#8211; came across my desk a few years ago. Its become more popular over the last few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DIRECTED ATTENTION<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, we&#8217;ve discerned that the first stage of stress (often leading to chronic illness) is not just alarm or adverse events, it&#8217;s Directed Attention \u2013 sustained focus that causes fatigue. A person can work from 60-90 minutes before fatigue sets in and causes lack of focus because it impairs critical thinking and decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n \t<li>Attention is a finite resource.<\/li>\n \t<li>Directed Attention involves effort.<\/li>\n \t<li>Tasks one is pursuing require effort.<\/li>\n \t<li>Even more effort is required to overcome confusion and distractions.<\/li>\n \t<li>In Directed Attention, effort leads to mental fatigue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WHY NATURE \u2013 UNDIRECTED ATTENTION \/ SOFT FASCINATION<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>(It&#8217;s totally natural, a non-invasive, non-pharmaceutical approach to wellness directed by You!) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing DEMANDS your attention \u2013 Undirected Attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n \t<li>Nature restores mental functioning as food and drink restore physical functioning.<\/li>\n \t<li>Forests, streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans demand very little from us, though they&#8217;re still engaging, ever changing, and attention-grabbing.<\/li>\n \t<li>There is minimal effort required because of the fascination of the setting.<\/li>\n \t<li>Natural counterparts to man-made landscapes give us the chance to think as much or as little as we&#8217;d like.<\/li>\n \t<li>They give us the opportunity to replenish exhausted mental resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WHY GREEN<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHow colors affect you\u201d by Prof. William Lidwell, Univ. of Houston, The Great Courses. The color green:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n \t<li>fosters creativity<\/li>\n \t<li>connects to environment<\/li>\n \t<li>approach motivation \u2013 invites you in, opens minds, curiosity<\/li>\n \t<li>reduces anxiety &amp; mental fatigue<\/li>\n \t<li>savanna environment: open spaces, low grasses, clumps of trees,<\/li>\n \t<li>water: everything you need for food and safety.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>View of Nature:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n \t<li>growing, alive<\/li>\n \t<li>fast recovery from stress<\/li>\n \t<li>Requires Sustained Exposure. Not long, but Frequent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WHY A WINDOW<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n \t<li>windows provide a safe vantage;<\/li>\n \t<li>protected from the elements and many other potential dangers,<\/li>\n \t<li>they offer refuge (Appleton, 1975) while affording prospect in permitting exploration beyond the immediate setting.<\/li>\n \t<li>There is virtually no overhead in time or effort in obtaining the benefit of the view.<\/li>\n \t<li>one need not contend with traffic or other forces that might reduce the effect of a restful interlude<\/li>\n \t<li>immediate access to the view and the minimal transition time make it possible to accumulate many brief respites.<\/li>\n \t<li>Greatest benefit is the SUSTAINED EXPOSURE &#8211; REPETITION PIECE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It is hardly surprising that the homes of the more affluent often have big windows and views of highly preferred settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the safety of one\u2019s home, scary things are less scary, allowing for fascination without danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is virtually no overhead in time or effort in obtaining the benefit of the view. Perhaps a curtain needs to be opened or a blind raised, but one need not even put on one\u2019s shoes to begin the activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither does one have to contend with traffic or other forces that might reduce the effect of a restful interlude before it is completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The immediacy of the view and the minimal transition time make it possible to accumulate many brief respites. SUSTAINED EXPOSURE &#8211; REPETITION PIECE which is one of the best stress-reduction practices on the planet, and you do it from the comfort of your favorite chair when you have a Natural Healing Views wellness window in your home or office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Choose your favorite <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalhealingviews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Healing Views<\/a> window and order now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOFT FASCINATION Soft Fascination is an aspect of Attention Restoration Therapy, the tenet that states being in or around Nature and Natural Scenes is stress-reducing, relaxing, and genuinely healing. &#8220;Hard Fascination&#8221; is probably your daily routine, the 9-to-5 environment, the busy, noisy, demanding environment. 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