Why We Should Practice Forest Bathing and How to Get the Benefits of ‘Forest Medicine’
2025-04-06
There is something very therapeutic about walking through a quiet forest during the day. In fact, there's a whole medical practice that boasts about the positive mental and physical benefits of spending time in nature.
Dr. Qing Li has been called the world's foremost expert on "forest bathing" – or "shinrin-yoku" in Japanese – and he firmly believes that people in modern societies are suffering from "nature deficit disorder."