Hugging Trees is Healthy and Good For You!

When all of the world's experts are tell us that we must save the earth particularly the trees, some will do their part as others will ignore it all. What a lot people do not realize that our forests are a vital part of your well being, health wise and spiritually. Hug that tree if you can or want too, it's there to help you heal as it will reduce stress, helps get rid of all the anger one might carry and most importantly hugging a tree will increase your happiness.

Laugh if you will but it has been proven many times over that visiting a forest makes one slow down about ten paces and that just helps the overall body's immune system. It strengthens it by increasing activity and even will kill a number of cancer cells. You feel good when you walk in the forest or just being around trees, you cannot help it. If you want to get all scientific about it, trees carry a compound called Taxol, found in many prescribed drugs; coming from mainly the yew tree. This can help thwart ovarian and breast cancer.

Regrettably many people do not have the luxury of walking in a forest or along paths of flowers and shrubs. This is why it is so important to have those mini forests within the cities. City planners know that trees make people relax and they try to incorporate them into the city's plans. Look at the number of people that take their lunches out in the park on a nice sunny day, they know how it relaxes them and it can make the day at the office more bearable.

There are hundreds of scientific evidences that the healing of nature can lower your blood pressure, and even when very sick sitting somewhere that you are surrounded by trees will help the body heal faster, let alone the mind and spirit. When you visit a sick friend in a hospital look around at the grounds, as many of them have trees all around them, and the patients are always encouraged to sit outside.

So please support your local forests and keep them clean of trash and human laziness. Go ahead and be a tree hugger, you will feel better. People will laugh at you when you say you are a tree hugger and that's ok. Maybe you should suggest to them to try it sometime.

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