In her September 2011 issue of Transmutation News, Sandra Ingerman writes about the Healing the Heart Study conducted with the University of Michigan Medical School’s Program for Integrative Medicine. Participants in the study's Medicine for the Earth spiritual retreat showed immediate, 3 month and 6 month follow-up improvement confirmed through testing the measurement of depression and hopefulness.
While Sandra wrote about many of the techniques such as meditation, guided imagery, drumming, and journal writing that were utilized with the heart patients who participated in a Medicine for the Earth spiritual retreat, I am noting herein the link to nature as it can help with regaining one’s sense of well being. She wrote “ … And the earth, air, water, and the sun give us life. We went outside to sit with a tree as a time to relax and feel our connection with the heartbeat of the earth. And then we took short walks in nature while appreciating all that the earth, water, air, and the sun give us so that we may thrive.”
