🌳JAPANESE FOREST BATHING - A Beginner's Guide🌳

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🌻Shinrin-Yoku, translated into English as ‘forest bathing', means taking in the forest atmosphere during a leisurely walk. It is a therapy that was developed in Japan during the 1980s, becoming a cornerstone of preventive health care and healing in Japanese medicine.

🌻Researchers, primarily in Japan and South Korea, have conducted studies on the health benefits of spending time amongst the trees, demonstrating that forest bathing positively creates calming neuro-psychological effects through changes in the nervous system, reducing the stress hormone cortisol and boosting the immune system.

🌻There are many different activities you can do in the forest that will help you to relax and to connect with nature.

🌻Here are some of the things people do: forest walking, yoga, eating in the forest, hot-spring therapy, T’ai chi, meditation, breathing exercises, aromatherapy, art classes and pottery, Nordic walking and plant observation. It doesn’t matter how fit – or unfit – you are. Shinrin-yoku is suitable for any level of fitness.

🌻You can forest-bathe anywhere in the world – wherever there are trees; in hot weather or in cold; in rain, sunshine or snow.

🌻You don’t even need a forest. Once you have learned how to do it, you can do shinrin-yoku anywhere – in a nearby park or in your garden.

🌻Following are 5 SIMPLE STEPS for beginners to get started...

🍁Step 1 – leave behind your phone, camera or any other distractions, so that you can be fully present in the experience.

🍁Step 2 – Leave behind your goals and expectations. Wander aimlessly, allowing your body to take you wherever it wants.

🍁Step 3 – Pause from time to time, to look more closely at a leaf or notice the sensation of the path beneath your feet.

🍁Step 4 – Find a comfy spot to take a seat and listen to the sounds around you. See how the behaviour of the birds and other animals changes when they become used to your presence.

🍁Step 5 – If you go with others, make an agreement to resist talking until the end of the walk, when you could gather to share your experiences.

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From:

- IKIGAI 'The Japanese secret to a Long and Happy Life' by Hector Gargia and Francesc Miralles

-https://www.growwilduk.com/blog/5-simple-steps-practising-shinrin-yoku-forest-bathing

- FOREST BATHING: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness by Dr. Qing Li, published on April 17, 2018 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © Qing Li, 2018.

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