Emotional Well-being

Emotional Well-Being can be defined as our ability to look after our emotional needs or how developed our emotional skills to deal with challenges, are. It is our ability to understand the value of our emotions and use them to move our life forward in positive directions. Working on our emotional health consists in focusing on our strengths and not our weaknesses, increasing our capability of enjoying everyday life, focusing on important personal priorities and improving your resilience.

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Organisations
Scotswood Natural Community Garden (Newcastle Upon Tyne)
Wyld Edges Community Interest Company
The Meditation Foundation
The Art of Living Foundation
Vipassana Trust
Publications
Healthy Planning and Regeneration: innovations in community engagement, policy and monitoring
Health, Wealth and Happiness – the Multiple Benefits of Green Infrastructure
Green Space and Mental Health: Pathways, Impacts and Gaps
Gardens and health Implications for policy and practice
A review of nature-based interventions for mental health care (NECR204)
REPORT : A review of nature-based interventions for mental health care (NECR204) This record was published by Natural England on 9 February 2016.
JOURNAL ARTICLE : Fractal Art and Architecture Reduce Physiological Stress - Journal of Biourbanism
JOURNAL ARTICLE : What are the Benefits of Interacting with Nature?
JOURNAL ARTICLE : Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversity
JOURNAL ARTICLE : Biodiversity Loss Threatens Human Well-Being
JOURNAL ARTICLE : Gardening promotes neuroendocrine and affective restoration from stress
JOURNAL ARTICLE : More green space is linked to less stress in deprived communities: Evidence from salivary cortisol patterns
The Fragrant Mind - Aromatherapy for Personality, Mind, Mood and Emotion
JOURNAL ARTICLE : Rediscovering the Later Version of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: Self-Transcendence and Opportunities for Theory, Research, and Unification
Love Matters
People & Permaculture – caring and designing for ourselves, each other and the planet
Websites
ARTICLE : Study Finds Turmeric Is As Effective As Prozac For Treating Depression - collective-evolution.com
Article : Gardens and health: it’s time for health policy to bring gardens in from the cold - kingsfund.org
ARTICLE : Horses Help Heal People’s Troubled Bodies And Spirits - littlethings.com
ARTICLE : A Walk in Nature – What's in it for my mind? - permaculturenews.org
ARTICLE : Nature, biodiversity and human health: how strong is the evidence? British Ecological Society
Horse Boy Method - means of gaining communication and re-patterning the brain for people on the autism spectrum
Be Mindful Online Mindfulness Course
ARTICLE : ARCAH’ s Therapeutic Permacultural Yard (Community PC Farm Project) PermacultureNews.org
Videos
Address to U.N. Millennium World Peace Summit By S N Goenka
The Yoga Way - Talk by Sri Sri at the European Parliament
Mindfulness meditation