Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being [Kindle Edition]
Author: Esther M. Sternberg | Language: English | ISBN: B003S3R4IC | Format: PDF, EPUB
Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being
Free download Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download Link Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question Esther Sternberg explores in Healing Spaces, a look at the marvelously rich nexus of mind and body, perception and place.
Sternberg immerses us in the discoveries that have revealed a complicated working relationship between the senses, the emotions, and the immune system. First among these is the story of the researcher who, in the 1980s, found that hospital patients with a view of nature healed faster than those without. How could a pleasant view speed healing? The author pursues this question through a series of places and situations that explore the neurobiology of the senses. The book shows how a Disney theme park or a Frank Gehry concert hall, a labyrinth or a garden can trigger or reduce stress, induce anxiety, or instill peace.
If our senses can lead us to a “place of healing,” it is no surprise that our place in nature is of critical importance in Sternberg’s account. The health of the environment is closely linked to personal health. The discoveries this book describes point to possibilities for designing hospitals, communities, and neighborhoods that promote healing and health for all. Books with free ebook downloads available Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being
Free download Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download Link Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question Esther Sternberg explores in Healing Spaces, a look at the marvelously rich nexus of mind and body, perception and place.
Sternberg immerses us in the discoveries that have revealed a complicated working relationship between the senses, the emotions, and the immune system. First among these is the story of the researcher who, in the 1980s, found that hospital patients with a view of nature healed faster than those without. How could a pleasant view speed healing? The author pursues this question through a series of places and situations that explore the neurobiology of the senses. The book shows how a Disney theme park or a Frank Gehry concert hall, a labyrinth or a garden can trigger or reduce stress, induce anxiety, or instill peace.
If our senses can lead us to a “place of healing,” it is no surprise that our place in nature is of critical importance in Sternberg’s account. The health of the environment is closely linked to personal health. The discoveries this book describes point to possibilities for designing hospitals, communities, and neighborhoods that promote healing and health for all. Books with free ebook downloads available Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being
- File Size: 2391 KB
- Print Length: 352 pages
- Publisher: Belknap Press; 1 edition (May 31, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B003S3R4IC
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #230,762 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #29 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Building Types & Styles
When my husband Richard and I worked with an architect to design the passive solar house where we now live, we were less concerned about the architectural style and more concerned that the house be healthy, which we defined in part as "connected to the out-of-doors" and "comfortable without fuss or excessive energy use." Hence its open, airy spaces lit by abundant natural light, the large south-facing windows framing views of the peaks rising over town, and the sliding-glass doors throughout that invite movement between the house and yard.
After reading Dr. Esther Sternberg's Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being, I understand more about the intuitive design decisions we made. Without consciously realizing it, Richard and I designed a space that is healing in the most fundamental sense, a house that makes us feel good just to live there.
"There is a turning point in the course of healing when you go from the dark side to the light, when your interest in the world revives and when despair gives way to hope," writes Sternberg in the opening paragraphs of Healing Spaces. "As you lie in bed, you suddenly notice the dappled sunlight and no longer turn your head and shield your eyes. You become aware of birdsong outside the window and the soothing whir of the ventilation system down the hall... This is when the destructive forces of illness give way to healing." That impulse toward healing, she notes, comes from within. "But do our surroundings, in turn, have an effect on us? Can the spaces around us help us heal?
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