What is it about?
This paper discusses how using your body and experiencing nature in this case animals can make you calmer and more able to manage your emotions.
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Why is it important?
This is a non medicalised approach to mental health through immersion in nature in this case interactions with horses.
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This paper discusses how important engaging in nature is and what benefits interacting with animals can have on human health and wellbeing, provided the animals involved are cared for humanely.
Professor Ann Hemingway
Bournemouth University
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This page is a summary of: The Embodied Nature of Horse Human Communication: A Feasibility Study of an Equine Assisted Intervention; Benefits for Horses and Humans, April 2022, IntechOpen,
DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.98848.
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