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The Healing Power of Nature

Natural soundscapes and why they improve wellbeing

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The Healing Power of Nature

By: BBC Studios Natural History Unit
Narrated by: Alex Smalley
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About this listen

In today's fast-paced world, most people are familiar with feeling stressed, anxious, and overwhelmed. But a remarkable resource exists to ease these problems – nature.

BBC Studios Natural History Unit and environmental psychologist Alex Smalley have teamed up to create immersive natural soundscapes that will help you unlock this incredible healing potential.

Whether it’s learning to tap into the awe-inspiring power of thunderstorms or replenishing your attention with the sound of the rainforest, each soundscape will help to unlock mental health benefits that are grounded in academic research.

This series reveals the science behind how listening to the natural world can help tired minds recover, boost feelings of positivity, and even make us kinder to the people around us. Cutting-edge studies have found that virtual encounters with nature provide your brain with many of the same benefits as actually being there.

The evidence is clear: we can all learn to benefit from nature. We simply have to listen.

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Episodes
  • Ep 1: How to Listen to Nature

    Ep 1: How to Listen to Nature
    Nov 23 2023

    Experience the positive effects of ‘natural quiet’ amongst the daily hubbub. This soundscape takes us from a busy town center into the calming quiet of a nearby woodland.
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    17 mins
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  • Ep 2: Easing Your Worries

    Ep 2: Easing Your Worries
    Nov 23 2023

    Tap into the potential of awe-inspiring nature to boost your mood and kindness. Immerse yourself in the powerful sounds of a thunderstorm, and the serene peace that follows.
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    15 mins
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  • Ep 3: Boost Your Focus

    Ep 3: Boost Your Focus
    Nov 23 2023

    Discover how ‘soft fascination’ can rejuvenate your attention span. Feel far away from your worries as you’re surrounded by the rich complexity of life in the Costa Rican rainforest.
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    16 mins
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Beautiful and inspiring podcast series. Profoundly calming and healing sounds. Insightful and enriching narration. Highly recommended.

Beautiful and inspiring

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utterly delightful sounds of nature brought together with very interesting factual info. Very calming, will listen to these over and over.

sublime series

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Perfect podcast in every way. Interesting, wonderful heartfelt narration, uplifting and a total balm for the soul. More please!

Soothing,magical, wondrous

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My head is full of bad news and the state of the world. I had just got to the point where it was all getting on top of me and then I started listening to this....

Wonderful... just wonderful!

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I loved this. I'm very easily stressed and I definitely needed this to help me with my mindfulness. Its very calming and relaxing to hear the noise of nature - all the bird tweets and caws, the blowing of the wind between the trees etc. The narrators voice is also nice and calm and relaxing, which helps continue the feeling of it being good to help really unwind to.

I'd hoped to buy this as my Audible membership ends on Christmas day but it seems I'm not able to. Shame. I really, really enjoyed this and will probably re-join in the future to listen to it again at some point. More like this please Audible!. Things to close your eyes and relax to, escape into and forget all your worries.

A lovely, calming, unwinding podcast

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