PACEs Connection Resource Center

Experiencing Nature

Interacting with nature can calm the stress response and decrease depression, your heart rate, and your blood pressure.

Get outside, breathe fresh air, feel the sun. 

• Go outside every day! 
• Look up at the sky. Feel the sunshine or rain on your face. 
• Breathe fresh air. 
• Smell flowers, walk on grass, listen to birds, touch a tree. 

Source: California Surgeon General’s Playbook: Stress Relief during COVID-19