Full Transcript Mind-Body-Environment Connection 0:00 Everyone knows about the mind body connection, but the mine body environment connection is less understood, But it's very real. 0:06 And I want to help empower people to sort of sharpen their focus and fix their lens so that they can see the way things impact them so we can shape things 0:17 a little bit more in our favor. 0:19 Even if someone's renting a property, there's little things you can do. 0:23 Those little 2% shifts add up over time, over years. 0:26 It can be very powerful, like the butterfly effect. 0:28 And of course, for people that do build a home from scratch, that's like a quantum leap into creating your future.
How Small Environmental Changes Add Up 0:34 Cause to the degree that you can shape your environment and shape, your space, you could shape destiny, right? 0:40 And so that, That's a two-way street of communication. 0:42 The mind-body environment connection is subtle in some ways, but it's also quite plain in others. 0:49 There's so many different ways we can look at it. 0:52 And there's many examples we could talk about. 0:54 We can start with just a very basic one. 0:57 And I think it's probably surprising for some people to hear an architect say this, but buildings are not our natural habitat.
Buildings as a Foreign Habitat 1:06 You know, no matter how beautiful your space is, you could live in a palace, But from the perspective of the human organism, 1:13 it is a foreign environment. 1:15 and therefore it going to elicit at some level, a subtle or a dramatic stress response. 1:23 Interesting. 1:24 We're simply in a foreign environment. 1:27 A picture of an example of the most beautiful architecture, you know, some cathedral somewhere or something, and show it to a thousand people from all
Architecture vs. Natureu2019s Physiological Effects 1:35 over the planet. 1:35 You know different cultures, different ages, tastes and perspectives. 1:40 And they might all agree, wow, that certainly is good architecture. 1:43 Maybe it's not my style or my preference, but I can appreciate it for the beauty, the work of art that it is. 1:49 But if you hook up physiological sensing equipment to them, they're not all going to have the same response. 1:55 They may all agree that that's beautiful architecture, Whereas if you take a scene of green growing things, a meadow or a forest or some nature scene, 2:07 those same thousand people, they may say, oh, I prefer a beach or I preferred mountains. 2:11 They may have individual preferences for the type of landscapes that they like and gravitate to. 2:16 Nevertheless, all thousand of them, assuming they're healthy, well-adjusted people, are going to have a similar physiological response, 2:24 which is the alpha waves in the brain slow, not as much spike as there's a calming of the mind. 2:30 Our breath rate will become more deep. 2:32 You know, we typically breathe fairly shallow.
Bringing Nature Into the Home 2:34 We don't take full deep breaths, but we will breathe more deeply upon seeing the nature scene. 2:38 And we achieve a resting heart rate. 2:41 more quickly and easily. 2:42 And that's going to slow the heart rate and reduce blood pressure and lower a stress response. 2:48 So I encourage people, and this happens automatically, it's subconscious, It just happens. 2:54 It's your environment playing an influence on you, whether you're aware of it or not. 2:58 What I say is, look, let's try to bring nature into the home.
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