Stress is a mental illness that leads to depression and anxiety. Changes to one’s physical, psychology, social and spirituality can be attributed to stress. Stress usually happens when a person experiences chronic disease, disability, feeling loss or having financial difficulties. Therefore, a lot of research in stress management methods has been carried out to alleviate stress problems. One of these methods involves a person’s interaction with green environment. However, the question now arises: what is the relationship between stress management and green environment? Is green environment capable of creating a mental wellbeing? Hence, this paper aims to identify the relationship between stress management and green environment and analyze the process of stress management that takes place in one’s interaction with green environment. This research is studied from an Islamic perspective and uses documents based on scientific and non-scientific sources while referring to the Quran and Hadith as the main sources. This research found that green environment does affect one’s stress due to its being as Allah SWT creation and have physical, psychology, social and spiritual relationship with human. Finally, it is hoped that stress management that involves elements of green environment is practiced so that human wellbeing with qawiyul amin characteristics is achieved.
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