Walking , and especially in Nature

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A group of researchers from Stanford University thought the nature effect might have something to do with reducing rumination. Rumination is what happens when you get really sad or hopeless, and you can’t stop thinking about your glumness and what’s causing it.  Rumination shows up as increased activity in a brain region called the subgenual prefrontal cortex, a narrow band in the lower part of the brain that regulates negative emotions. If rumination continues for too long unabated, depression and illness can set it.

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Nature is the best.... but in the winter I walk and walk and walk in the mall or at the gym. If you can walk, you are so ahead of the game.

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