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Forest Bathing

How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness
May 18, 2019Mooseum rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Looking back, I was lucky to live during a time when it was common to see butterflies and other insects, as well as salamanders, lizards, and snakes in our home gardens. It seems that seeing a butterfly has become a rarity. Signs of wild life and places of nature are becoming more scarce in our cities. Shinrin-yoku or forest bathing is a concept that developed in Japan in the 1980s. If it becomes a fad, at least it will promote the idea of being outside in nature is a good thing, and hopefully it will help to preserve natural areas with plenty of trees. There are many things which cause stress in our lives, especially sitting inside in front of a computer all day looking at a screen. How do we mitigate the stress? How can we calm our lives? This book has answers. Being outside among trees is only one.