Dr. Wayne Pernell explains forest bathing, a 1980s Japanese practice of immersing yourself in forests to boost wellbeing. Start with an outdoor walk, take breaks outside, add plants to your desk, or face your window toward nature. Small doses of intentional exposure to natural elements revitalize you.
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Forest bathing. So what forest bathing is. It's a run. Forest run? No, forest bathing. You're not bathing with Tom Hanks. What you're doing is you're actually going out in nature. So in the 80s, this term came, I think, from Japan. But it's the concept of, like, going outside and being in the forest, being amongst the trees. Yesterday, for example, I had one of those days where I sat at my desk and all of a sudden it was dinner time. I've had, like, maybe a bowl of yogurt. Hardly move my body. I felt terrible. So. So I normally start my day off with going for a walk, getting outside, breathing in the nature, and I do that throughout the day. You need to have time in your schedule to get outside. And if you're living in the concrete jungle, that's totally cool. Like, that's fine. Still get outside. What. What you can do also is fill your office with plants. I see you have one. My whole office is like, there's plants everywhere. I have faced my. I have faced my desk to look out the window.