Eco-Healing Check List

Eco-Healing is a broad term referring to nature’s capacity
to heal and nurture us.

Nature’s healing gifts come in a variety of size and shapes.  Eco-Healing is a full spectrum experience gracing your body, mind, and spirit with renewal. You may already be or already have participated in eco-healing, but you didn’t call it that.

Look and see how many of these reported eco-healing activities you have experienced.

Eco-Healing Check List:  Click here for a printable checklist

How many of these things are true about your life?

_______   Spend time in nature on a regular basis
_______   Find yourself wishing you could spend more time in nature
_______   Garden as a hobby or occasionally
_______   Enjoy coming across a wild, non-threatening animal
_______   Listening to the sounds of nature (water, wind, animals) pleases you
_______   Feel physically better after outdoor exercise (green exercise)
_______   Have a favorite spot or spots in nature you like to visit
_______   Find yourself thinking about a place in nature
_______   Enjoy providing for birds, butterflies, and other small wildlife
_______   Become less stressed after spending time in nature
_______   Feel mentally better after spending time outdoors
_______   Find you can think clearer after being in nature
_______   Experience inspiration in nature
_______   Have an enhanced sense of spirituality in nature
_______   Notice mood changes for the better after a nature experience
_______   Feel better about yourself and your life after a nature experience
_______   Notice less depression and anxiety after being with nature
_______   Experience unexpected memories of a place in nature you love  
_______   Experience a sense of gratitude for life while in nature.
_______   Feel moved to communicate with nature and/or moved to pray
_______   Change in priorities after spending time in nature

Regardless of how many or how few of the things on the Eco-Healing list you checked, know that research studies have shown that people are restored by nature in all the ways mentioned above.  Maybe you can even think of other eco-healing activities that you enjoy.