Getting Better - A Digital solution for Overall Well-Being

Nature's Effect on Health and Well-Being  Nature has been shown to positively affect people's health and well-being, improve alertness, and help them recover from stress. GettingBetter Oy has been involved in creating digital content that allows you to enjoy the peace of nature regardless of time and place. Digital Content By Getting Better - A peak Into the Finnish Nature  Getting Better produces slow, soothing digital content for professional work and customer interaction. When there are no words and words do not matter, digital content opens a new way to participate, regardless of functional ability. Visual communication also offers a new means of communication for the elderly with impaired cognitive-communication skills. The content has been created by combining research results in medicine, health technology and the media. The well-being of the mind is an important part of overall well-being. Digital content is an excellent remedy for managing stress and maintaining...

How Important is Children's Emotional Education  Children who fluently understand and express feelings have better compassionate and social skills. This emotional intelligence can help them connect better with their peers and build long-lasting relationships. They are more likely to do better academically. Even before children enter academics, they're tutored by their parents on which feelings are appropriate and how they should express them. Social-emotional education is vital for children because it teaches them critical life skills, including the capability to understand themselves and develop a positive image of themselves. It also helps them to take responsibility for their actions and forge connections with the people around them. Emotional development in children involves learning about what feelings and emotions exactly are, understanding how and why they occur, recognizing their own and those of others, and finally developing effective ways to manage those emotions and...

Why Nature is Important for Mental Health When we long for a relaxing and stress-relieving daily walk, we often turn to nature - even a quick walk in the woods seems to quickly refresh the mood, and many of us find the beaches by the waters soothing places. Indeed, the positive effects of nature on mental health have been extensively studied, and one major contributing factor is the calm sensory stimulation of natural environments. A nature trip is like a festive food for the senses, mainly offering only positive and relaxed stimulation - especially for the senses of sight, hearing, and smell. The sensory stimulation nature provides contains information about a safe environment and analyzing this requires little of our cognitive resources. The modern world, on the other hand, has far more sensory stimuli, and many of them are not soothing in nature, require more attention, and  increase a person’s state of stress. In nature, our senses are allowed to rest on the stimuli to which we...