Birds in a garden, around houses or as pets can be used for assisted therapy for cognitive development and offering emotional support to an individual with a disability under the care of a trained therapist.
Watching and feeding birds as a therapy can be designed to calm the mind and enhance attentiveness. According to therapists practicing animal assisted therapy, intervention based bird watching and bird feeding can be meditative activity providing opportunity to spend a time to train consciousness.
Special educators can raise children's self-awareness and social awareness through bird watching interventions and health professional can help people with dementia by getting out and assisting in experiencing the nature to reduce their stress, anxiety and depression.
After, a little assistance, bird self-therapy can be a good pastime that induces a sense of well-being.
One activity could be putting some bird-feed in a small tray to attract birds and watching them feeding themselves. The bird-feed should supplement their natural diet
There are reports that during lockdown, the social isolation can turned into feeding birds at your extended window sill. It has been found that watching neighbourhood birds keeps one away from depression, anxiety and stress.
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