The KVH Healing Garden Project-
What is a healing garden and how will the space positively impact the community?
The term healing garden is applied most often to green spaces in healthcare settings that specifically focus on improving health outcomes. The gardens provide a place of refuge and promote healing in patients, families and staff.
According to two leaders in the field, Clare Cooper Marcus and Marni Barnes, any environment can promote healing, but gardens are particularly able to do so because humans are hard-wired to find nature engrossing and soothing.
The March 19, 2012 article "How Hospital Gardens Help Patients Heal" in the Scientific American shares that "just three to five minutes spent looking at views dominated by trees, flowers or water can begin to reduce anger, anxiety and pain and to induce relaxation, according to various studies of healthy people that measured physiological changes in blood pressure, muscle tension, or heart and brain electrical activity."
For more information about healing gardens and their benefits, please follow the links below:
NATURE THAT NURTURES LINK
WHAT ARE HEALING GARDENS LINK
HOSPITAL HEALING GARDENS LINK
The term healing garden is applied most often to green spaces in healthcare settings that specifically focus on improving health outcomes. The gardens provide a place of refuge and promote healing in patients, families and staff.
According to two leaders in the field, Clare Cooper Marcus and Marni Barnes, any environment can promote healing, but gardens are particularly able to do so because humans are hard-wired to find nature engrossing and soothing.
The March 19, 2012 article "How Hospital Gardens Help Patients Heal" in the Scientific American shares that "just three to five minutes spent looking at views dominated by trees, flowers or water can begin to reduce anger, anxiety and pain and to induce relaxation, according to various studies of healthy people that measured physiological changes in blood pressure, muscle tension, or heart and brain electrical activity."
For more information about healing gardens and their benefits, please follow the links below:
NATURE THAT NURTURES LINK
WHAT ARE HEALING GARDENS LINK
HOSPITAL HEALING GARDENS LINK