On Monday, June 6th, the day before our third paper was due, I went to the Luxembourg Gardens to finish up my paper. This was my first time in the gardens and wow was it beautiful! Before coming to Paris, I knew France had a lot of castles but I didn’t expect them to be in the heart of the city. It was amazing to be able to take the metro a few stops away from accent and be at a castle with gorgeous gardens. While sitting there writing my paper surrounded by the greenery, hearing the calming sound of the fountain, and feeling the beams of the sun on my face, I felt a sense of relief from the anxiety I had surrounding this paper. It was very cool to feel the first-hand impacts that nature has on stress relief (Tyrväinen et al., 2014).
Tyrväinen, L., Ojala, A., Korpela, K., Lanki, T., Tsunetsugu, Y., & Kagawa, T. (2014). The influence of urban green environments on stress relief measures: A field experiment. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 38, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2013.12.005