Simply looking at nature – or even just digital pictures of it – can relieve pain, according to new research which scanned the brains of people receiving electrical shocks.

Or if a bright light feels too harsh, try setting your smartphone to wake you up with one of your favorite songs (mine would be “You Make My Dreams (Come True)” by Hall and Oates). Research shows that ...

Screens shown to the participants displayed three different images: a nature scene ... were reduced when participants were exposed to nature scenes. This could mean that nature’s pain-relieving ...

For example, the nature scenes included the sounds of water and ... they found that they reported significantly less pain when watching images of nature, with no difference between urban and ...

The subjects looked at different images while receiving a series of ... a placebo effect," Steininger said in a statement.