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Thus, it is no surprise that the Center for Health Design identifies nature as certainly one of the key factors that reduces patient and employees stress and results in higher outcomes and employees satisfaction. Many research show that after a stressful event, pictures of nature very quickly produce a relaxing impact. Within three to four minutes after viewing nature scenes, blood stress, respiration rate, mind exercise, and the production of stress hormones all lower and temper improves. This again has an evolutionary advantage as a result of it permits us to recuperate and get well our vitality quickly. This capacity to get well from stress quickly in order to be prepared to answer new threats was important for our ancestors' survival. What Are Therapeutic Gardens? We know that viewing plants, flowers, water, and different nature parts reduces patient anxiousness, even when the sufferers are very anxious. One rationalization for that is that nature supplies a respite from t
Our 2019 Design*Sponge team: Sofia Tuovinen, Garret Fleming, Kristina Gill, Caitlin Kelch, Grace Bonney, Kelli Kehler, Lauren Day and Erin Austen Abbott. It’s been said that if you love something, you have to let it go.  And, dear friends, it is time for us to let Design*Sponge go.  It’s time for us to close this wild and wonderful chapter and head out into the great unknown. While we are sad to say goodbye to the friends, colleagues, and community that we’ve found here, we know that we are stepping into this next chapter filled with the love, support, and care you’ve so graciously shared with us over the past 15 years. Design*Sponge began as one girl behind a screen, and has grown into a beautiful, diverse, and ever-expanding network of friends, collaborators, confidants, and support systems.  You’ve taught us all how to be better listeners, better sharers, better members of our community and, most importantly, you’ve taught us that what makes a community special are the people in