Want to boost your brain? Take a tip from Mother Nature
Wandering lonely as a cloud high o’er vales and hills may be the best way to recharge your batteries - so long as you leave your conventional battery-powered devices at home.
What writers have known for centuries, scientists are now endeavouring to prove – that contact with nature can boost creativity and problem solving skills.
Backpackers who spent four days in the wilderness without access to electronic devices scored 50 per cent better on a creativity test at the end of the trip, according to researchers.
The backpackers – 56 in all – joined one of four separate expeditions run by the Outward Bound organisation and took a ten item “creativity test” at the start and end of the hike. On average they got four out of ten questions right at the start and six right at the end.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/want-to-boost-your-brain-take-a-tip-from-mother-nature-8411932.html I myself think it does help, in that people have to start taking responsibilty for themselves