“Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well.
Why, Nature is but another name for health.”
- Henry David Thoreau

Nature is the Real Thing. Nature heals, and so magnificent is its healing power, that people have instinctively gone there for thousands of years to enhance their well-being. Even a few minutes in a natural area or garden can empower us. On the top of everything nature heals us in a very natural way, without any drugs and free of charge.

“Everything in nature contains all the power of nature.
Everything is made of one hidden stuff.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even looking at pictures of nature have the same beneficial effects as nature in itself. It can be measured. Especially ecopsychology and environmental psychology are focused on this interplay between humans and their surroundings. It has been verified in psychological studies, that it is most important to your well-being to encircle yourself by things which increase your physical and mental energy and give you greater equanimity, serenity of mind and enhanced ability to relax. Such are for instance Ilaskari’s nature images. They vibrate the enchanting and empowering elements of the breathtakingly beautiful Finnish nature, the most remote and exotic wilderness of Europe.

Ilaskari believes that the effect is due to vibration. Albert Einstein proved with his famous equation E=mc² that everything in the universe is energy and vibrates at some frequency. We are surrounded by images and their vibrations all the time. As they affect us mostly in an unconscious level, many of them have overpowering effects on us. If they express fear, hatred and despair, they can badly disturb our senses and mind and thus our whole well-being. Correspondingly tranquil nature images tranquilize our mind. We become like what we watch. If you look at an image that vibrates peace and harmony, you will become peace and harmony. It is of a certain kind of meditation.

All the colors vibrate at a certain wavelength, too. In Ilaskari’s images also the colors have a great significance. You can use them as color therapy. They can give you energy and help you to find inner peace.

In Ilaskari’s images green is one important color. It is the basic color in nature and represents balance, love, hope and healing. It helps to relax muscles and mind. It cleanses and balances our whole being and gives a feeling of renewal, peace and harmony.

If you have ever seen the excitement and big smile of a child when having a contact with an animal, you can imagine how therapeutic the animals are. They can have miraculous healing power, as has been seen for instance in the pet or animal-assisted therapy.

Also looking at an image of an animal can have the same beneficial effects as an animal in itself. Test it in Ilaskari's gallery of Happy Animals!