Trail Rx Stop 5 on the Prairie Loop Trail offers three benches for trail users. Your mental health prescription for this Trail Rx stop is below. You may read the invitation or you may listen to a recording of the invitation. Be sure the volume on your phone or ear buds is turned up so that you can comfortably hear the speaker. After listening to the recording, you may need to stop the Soundcloud application from automatically advancing to another audio file. Perhaps you'll want to take some time after reading or listening to the invitation to reflect or to notice your environment.
Click here to hear a recording of the following invitation:
As you walk, or sit on one of the three benches on Prairie Loop Trail, you're invited to focus your attention on the sights and sounds of beings that fly. Look up look out notice birds butterflies and insects and noticed the sound these creatures make noticed their visual displays and patterns as they fly as they land and as they fly again allow yourself to sit for at least 10 to 20 minutes simply noticing the sights and sounds of flying insects and birds when you're finished can you think of one word to describe your experience Yes
Benefits
In a study of adults who chose their own convenient nature experience, stress hormones were found to drop by over 20% when the subjects spent just twenty minutes in nature (Hunter, 2019). Walking one lap of the Prairie Loop takes about twenty minutes. Do you feel your stress melting away?
Click here to hear a recording of the following invitation:
As you walk, or sit on one of the three benches on Prairie Loop Trail, you're invited to focus your attention on the sights and sounds of beings that fly. Look up look out notice birds butterflies and insects and noticed the sound these creatures make noticed their visual displays and patterns as they fly as they land and as they fly again allow yourself to sit for at least 10 to 20 minutes simply noticing the sights and sounds of flying insects and birds when you're finished can you think of one word to describe your experience Yes
Benefits
In a study of adults who chose their own convenient nature experience, stress hormones were found to drop by over 20% when the subjects spent just twenty minutes in nature (Hunter, 2019). Walking one lap of the Prairie Loop takes about twenty minutes. Do you feel your stress melting away?
