How Camping Helps In Preventing Stress and Depression

How Camping Helps In Preventing Stress & Depression

Have you ever find yourself feeling tranquil, more relaxed, or more attentive after spending time in nature? That’s because nature is very pleasing and compelling and time outside has studied and proven benefits for your mental health.

Relieving anxiety, stress and depression.

A humble and unpretentious stay in the outdoors can do wonders for relieving anxiety, stress, and depression. Manifold studies have demonstrated that nature has a very constructive and positive effect on your mental health. What you see, hear, and experience in nature can revamp your mood in a moment.

There is a well-built relationship between time-spent in nature and reduced negative emotions. This includes symptoms of anxiety, depression, and psychosomatic illnesses like irritability, insomnia, tension headaches, and indigestion.

Feeling stressed? Research have shown various links between exposure to nature and stress reduction. The moment you start exposing nature and looking around for fascinating views, Stress is relieved within minutes of exposure to nature as measured by muscle tension, blood pressure, and brain activity. The cortisol, which is a stress hormone, reduces significantly when you spent time in green spaces. Nature also increase endorphin levels and dopamine production, which promotes happiness.

Other mental benefits.

Nature has a numerous of other brain benefits as well. Contact with nature has restorative properties, increasing energy and improving feelings of vitality and focus. Symptoms of ADHD also starts reducing when you are nearby the nature.

Being at a place surrounded with glorious views of mountains, waterfalls, greenery, and natural beauty enhance creative thinking and restore capacity for concentration and attention. Also for people who have problem of sleeplessness, a two-hour walk in the woods is enough to improve sleep quality and help relieve sleep problems. The process of circadian rhythm gets reset when you wake up with natural sunlight instead of artificial lights, which will help you feel refreshed after a better night’s sleep. 

Grief process of a human mind and body gets refine when they experience nature. This is because exposure to nature causes better coping, including improved self-awareness, self-concept, and positively affected mood. These positive effects of nature helps people to be make good relation with other and caring towards others.

What you can do.

Getting outdoors doesn’t have to be a lot of work. There are lots of simple ways you can get quality time in nature.

Walks in woods or in green spaces. Daily nature walks improves physical and mental strength of people. It helps them combat stress while improving mental well-being.

Move your workout into the outdoors. Regular use of natural areas for physical activity can reduce the risk of mental health problem. Bodily activities like walking, cycling, jogging, or doing yoga in a natural environment makes you happier than in the city.

Book a camping trip. Immersing yourself in nature for a longer period of time is the best way to absorb the health benefits of the outdoors. Especially when you are on a trip with your partner, family, or with friends you share your problems with them, which make you feel lighter and you get ideas or solutions to resolve your problems which lessen the stress on your mind and helps you feel the beauty of life and nature.

Ready for your nature dose?

Find a park near you to walk and look for the beautiful or dreamed places to camp where you along with your friends and family can relieve your stress or help someone to relieve his/her stress or depression.

Guide on setting up good tent - white Duck Outdoors

How to Set Up a Good Tent?

Camping is one of the most fun and exciting activities that can be done in the outdoors although it is most preferable to be with big group of people as it becomes more exciter and a more memorable experience.

Although the Tent’s quality is also an essential part in determining the amount of enjoyment and comfortableness while camping in the outdoors.

To choose the best tent and quality relies on many different mindsets you should decide the specs and features you want to be in the Tent while camping there outdoors, you will need to decide the best tent for you, pick a tent type, size, and shape that meet your specific needs.

In this blog we would help you with some tips that will make is a lot easier and effective while choosing the best and most suitable tent for you.

1) The Seasonal Tent: You will need to choose a 3 season tent that maybe used in all seasons which is the best and most adaptable tent out there as it also can handle different weather conditions. These type of tents provide good ventilation in the summer heat, and includes a roof canopy that successfully keeps out rain.

2) Choosing the Size: Sometimes it becomes very hard to choose the accurate and most suitable size so that everybody can get enough space. Make sure there’s 30 square feet (2.8 square meters) of space per person. Don’t go for too big tents if you are not in need of them because it might get a lot heavier and awkward while carrying it around. A-frame tents have the most common shape and are desirable because they’re less expensive and lighter.

3) Features: Tents have a various and big range if specs in them. You may also look for a fireproof, waterproof tent it will make your camping trip a lot safer and it would also expand the tents lifetime. You will also be needing to be looking for tents with windows so that if you plan to go in the summers and you feel like opening the windows if you want to refresh the air inside. If you are a large group of people then it’s more preferable to use a bell tent and this tent comes in a more like umbrella shaped. Always focus on tents that are easy to set up. Make sure the tent provides adequate weather protection that is against the sunny and rainy weather. Buy a tent made of tightly woven, rip-resistant material.

4) Double and Single Walls: There are always pros and cons of both type of tents. Tents are divided into two categories Double and Single Wall tents, the Double have high storage place and protection while the single wall tents lacks in them bit the single wall tents outcomes the double wall tents by being a lot lighter and easier to set up.

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How to Manage a Breathable Canvas Tent

We have combined our accumulated experience and believe in the philosophy “truth is in the details” with innovation today in textile manufacturing to produce tents that exceed our customer’s expectation.

We use an Army Duck Cotton Canvas 10.10 Oz, 100% Cotton with a high-density weave structure. Our Canvas Tent fabric has UV, Anti-Mildew & Waterproofing agent saturated throughout the canvas before manufacturing so even after wear and tear it will still provide a waterproof barrier.

We achieve a high value of hydro-static water head creating a waterproof canvas that minimizes condensation build up. The canvas tents’ structure of cotton allows moisture to pass through and at the same time provide a barrier to water droplets.

We also offer a range of Flame Retardant finish meeting CPAI 84 USA Outdoor Camping Standard.

Understanding the Water Proof
Our canvas tents are manufactured from waterproof and water repellent fabrics. However, with the addition of seams, zips and other desirable features for camping, hunting, recreation, glamping tent cannot be as waterproof as a car, house or other solid structures.

Following are the common examples of how water can enter a camping/glamping tent. Hence, corrective actions and notes to consider are:

Condensation
When warm moist air meets cooler air, condensation of water gas into water liquid occurs. The tent walls and roof form an impermeable layer between the inside and outside climatic conditions. The moisture inside the tent condenses on the canvas fabric and water droplets are formed. Sometimes these water droplets build up to appear that the fabric is leaking when in fact the cause is condensation. Condensation can be reduced if the tent is well ventilated to reduce the buildup of warm moist air on the ceiling.

Zips
All care is taken in the canvas tents’ design to cover zips with storm flaps or position them where water will not flow. At times wind driven rain could force water under the flaps and through the zips. To minimize this, ensure all doors and windows are closed with flaps securely covering the zip wherever possible. If the ground is very wet or water pools under the floor, then the downward pressure of standing or kneeling on the floor can draw water through minute wear holes in the floor fabric or where there are joins in the floor fabric. To prevent this, do not set up the tent in hollows and make sure water drains away from the tent site.

Structural Integrity
A well set-up cotton canvas tent on level ground is structurally strong and most waterproof. During periods of prolonged rain and wind it may be necessary to tighten and adjust the frame, pegs and guy ropes as well as making sure any groundwater is flowing away from the campsite. A sagging roof or awning weakens the tent structure and could allow water to collect on the roof causing leakage, structural damage, and fabric tears.

Wet Tents
A Water & Mildew Canvas Tent will definitely survive the test of nature in the great outdoors. However, there is a certain element of extra care a camper needs to undertake to ensure the tent performs over the years. Never pack a soiled or wet tent. Make sure the tent is dry and dusted prior to packing it back.
 Cotton tents, if packed in airtight bags will cause the microorganism to grow on it.

 Hence, the practice of ensuring the above mentioned key points is mandatory.