WWhen I arranged to meet the streets of Annabel, author of a new book in the name of a new book, The Walking Cure, she made a challenge. She wants me to choose a site in London, I am not aware of it, so that I can try her ideas about the aspects of urban landscape. In the book, the streets consider the strong influence that walking on our mood, thoughts and emotions can cause, and how this can differ according to a place and how we walk. While most people realize the benefits of walking in nature, the streets raise the issue for urban environments, known as “brown spaces” by developers. Surprisingly, churches, director and cemeteries, all of which are in cities, often provide an abundance of wildlife. A study in the Berlin Cemetery found one 604 species, 10 of which are rare or endangered.
The streets believe that in cities, our collective ingenuity is the most obvious. I haven’t been surprised recently, unless you are amazingly angry.
The problem is that I lived and worked in central London for decades, so I am having difficulty reaching any new place. The streets suggest that we start Mary Aldermary, a city in the city of London, I am uncommon, near the Manssion House station. Christopher Wayne Sadr, which was rebuilt in 1682 after the Great London Fire in 1666, looks not noticeable with my approach along a narrow street, fighting through the legions of the city’s workers on lunch breaks.
When I wander around the threshold, I am surprised. Not only an architectural jewel, it is also a café and society. People sit in the seats, write away on laptops or think about the glorious stained glass.
“Isn’t this amazing?” The streets say. It looks happy when I say I used to work 10 minutes away from a walk and never noticed the church. In fact, I chose it for some reason. Researchers have identified a well -known boost known as “The effect of the cathedral“This happens when we have a large space above our heads.” This can be an extension of the sky, when you are in a distant location or at the top of the hill, “researchers found that people have more sympathy and mercy, and they think more creatively, in such environments.” While we talk, I feel that my shoulder falls and raises my mood.
The last street book was summoned 52 ways to walk. It happened almost by chance when she was working on another project, WindSeptAs it explored the impact of the landscape on creative women, including Georgia Okif and Joen John. In this process, I discovered a set of scientific research devoted to the benefits of walking.
What walking is very good for us? “Humans are designed for walking and not just a outing on a sunny day in a beautiful landscape,” she says. “When we walk, we produce the biochemistry that indicates life strongly so that scientists describe it as” hill molecules. “
When the streets grew up in the Wales countryside, none of her parents led, so walking was a necessary tendency. It is surprising, then, to encourage people now to think about walking in the ideal conditions: in the cold, clay, clay, and – unintegrated – while hunger.
When she was a teenager, she rebelled and bought Fiat, who led her everywhere, even to the gym. Walking was abandoned until its first year at the university in Norwich. “I sponsored my grandfather through cancer. I barely settled at the university and everyone was outside the parties. After his death, it was really difficult.
After three months, she returned home, ready to return to her old life. “But why were you very desperate for the mountains and why did they do a lot? Did my body know what it needs?”
Do the streets have any theories about the reason that the outdoor walking has a special effect on our mental state? “Evolutionary biologists believe that it was one day a mechanism to survive – when we escaped from the danger, our brain should have been effective like our body. We needed to identify our site, remember the places of asylum, and determine whether the tree should be climbed, changed direction, picking up a rock, or slowing down. Escape was always required a lot of the brain, as is the case with thought a lot.”
As part of Social descriptionSome NHS boxes now walk in nature as a way to help people improve their mental and physical health. But the streets are keen to raise awareness of the virtues of built environments.
“I love the chances of surprise,” she says, and she drives me out of the church, below the rear aircraft. We walk through the bronze statue of The Cordwainer by Alma Boyes, which explains the medieval roots of the wing as a shoe center. Moreover, we see the dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral waving on the horizon. “Urban spaces are often more motivated and stimulating than remote landscape,” says streets. “What is not tainted by a lot of noise, pollution and traffic, cities can raise us, prefer our curiosity and excite our imagination. Yes, you can walk in a garden or across the mountains and feel wonderfully calm, but there are few signs of human endeavor. Minds.”
We are covering up on a side street and looks through the scroll window in the arc lane. Founded in 1845, it is claimed to be the largest barber in London. The beneficiaries look at us, as they feel up, so we overcame a decline, temporarily stopping to examine an interesting mark outside a bar. “The Four Sisters”, read the streets. “I wonder who they were? This is the thing in the city’s paths – it is full of puzzles and adventures.”
It leads me to the eleventh century basement of the other WRN Church, ST Mary-Le-Bow. We remain, we read the old inscriptions about the deceased for a long time. It is worrying to think about these long spirits while the city exceeds our heads.
“Open this door now,” urges the streets. Pay strongly and stumble in a lined room, avoiding tight collision with a waiter with a lunch tray. We are in the loud cafe below and the streets look wrong. “You didn’t expect it, were you?” She says, laugh. I start seeing what it means about the benefits of the stimulant surprise. I face childish excitement, such as entering Narya. It is a feeling that I did not feel for a long time. When you have lived in the same place throughout the ages, you can become tense.
The streets tell me about study Which found that historical aspects are psychological and calm, such as green walking, if not more. The research focused on the special benefits of cultural heritage sites and how its aesthetics affect the brain.
It is also a sign of a relevant sheet, which I find later. Sam Cole, a psychologist at Leicester University, Participate in a composition of a study Which echoed the result that walking in green spaces does not seem to provide more benefits than walking in urban areas. Instead, this walk provides different benefits at different times. “For example, two people may wander through a beautiful and remote natural reserve,” Cole writes, “although not communicating with any of the surrounding wildlife, focus instead on the benefits of their social interaction. At the same time, there may be another person walking in the crowded city streets and testing one and flexible flexible connection that grows in the path.”
This is all wonderful, of course, and I am happy to have a science to support the fun we enjoy. But it is difficult to imagine how I can allow myself to time and space to repeat the exercise regularly. What do the streets themselves do? “Each week I start thinking, well, what do I need this week? Do I need a space? Do I need to rest the trees? Do I have to be in a more closed space? Do I need to be near the water? The more I learned to listen to your body, the more you want somewhere, do you want to always be what you want to be so. In a happy place or mood.”
There is a complete chapter in the street book for walking in the graves. Any new place, as she says, her first visit is usually to the local cemetery because it is a window in the culture and history of society. “Among the evidences of history in history, we see ourselves as we – a passing moment in an endless time, a group of cells that, like everything else, will return one day to Earth. Whether we go back from the cemetery of walking with a feeling of gratitude, joy in gentle sadness or with a new sense of goal, you write.”
Take a quick look inside the ST Mary-Le-Bow and Marvel on how one person, Christopher and Rin, can demand the design of many buildings. Then the streets lead me to glass and chrome a nightmare for the new shopping center that changes, before we wander around the wonderful flowers outside the Cathedral of St. Paul and descended on fleet street.
After the afternoon with the streets, I faced myself the bullish trend of the comfortable urban walk. Not only this is a gentle way to strike the number of daily steps of running, I really feel lively.
The good news is that, if, like me, you are pedestrians in a fair weather or unable to go out for a picnic for any other reason, the inner walking still has clear benefits. MARILY OPPEZZO, which is now a behavioral world and learned at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, compares how walking affects a vicious circle or outdoors on our creativity. Critically, Her studies Also compare walking with sitting still inside and outside. Walking on a walking device in a small room still achieves good results. In fact, any kind of walking strengthens people’s creativity at a rate of 60 % compared to the lack of movement, regardless of the site.
The streets are ending our career on a seat in a quiet field in the inner temple, one of the four hostels of the court. And yes, I have guessed that, There is a study This reveals the cognitive benefits of roaming in the round urban squares …