A piece of reading this morning brought back a memory from a Montessori training program I'd done a long long time ago. Our teacher. Shri.Swami was one of the best teachers I've ever ever met, or rather had the fortune to have been taught by. In fact I remember telling him that 'all the questions I'd had, which might have driven me to philosophy in college, got answered more through him than in the two years of hard core philosophy'
Anyways, he'd asked.....'Why do we have windows' ? And folks went...light, ventilation, fresh air and the like....and he was like....."It's to stay connected with Nature"
This is the piece, from the Harvard Business Review, that brought it back:
We all want to be productive, but figuring out how to do it can be challenging. One simple way is to spend time looking at nature on your next break at work. Research has found that gazing at something green – through a window, on a walk outside, or even on a screen saver – can help improve attention and performance in the workplace. Attention restoration theory suggests that natural environments have restorative benefits for us. Because nature captures our attention without requiring us to focus on it, looking at natural environments lets us replenish our stores of attention control. And because our attention is a limited resource that we’re constantly tapping, letting it recharge is essential. So the next time you take a break at work (you are taking breaks, right?), spend it looking at nature. Doing so for even one minute can show benefits.
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