I STARTED FOREST BATHING & IT CHANGED MY LIFE | why you should try it & how to start shinrin-yoku!

I started practicing forest bathing after the first UK lockdown. I've been suffering with deep grief and depression since losing my sister to cancer in Jan 2020 and also as an introvert I feel a very deep connection with nature. To hear, see, smell and touch nature.... The textures, colours is amazing. Forest bathing has help me change my way of thinking and behaviour

'You are not a guest in the forest, but you are part of the forest'. So Powerful. This has re-ignited my desire to go back into Nature. Thank you!!

I just love going into the forest and breathing deeply. Hugging the trees and taking it all. Its a natural depression buster.

This is an excellent forest bathing video. Thank you for posting it. Please make more videos about the same topic.

As a nature lover and birdwatcher here in North Wales, this is something I want to do more of come Spring. Thank you ❤

A sweet film thank you 🙏 I've been doing this for some years but the practice so helped me recover from serious illness 5 years ago...blessings John 🙏

I've been trail running for quite a while and hadn't fully slowed down and just chill out on my local trails. I've grown to appreciate the land I have around me so much more just taking some time to meditate and experience everything around me.

Thank you so much for creating such a wonderful video. In last 2 years, I suffered with acute stress and lost so many things from life. But I know forest bathing can change this.

Thank you for this beautiful meditation. I have a friend who is a Forest Bather practitioner and routinely takes groups out. I have been privileged to attend once but schedule and health issues have kept me from getting out. I need to just start going out again on my own schedule and time frame. (Hers are typically 3 hour sessions). You have motivated me to get out even if just 30 minutes 😊❤️

This is so, so unbelievably interesting, such a wonderful video! 😊. For me, forest bathing puts me right back into a child like mindset. Slowing down and opening your mind to every detail is quite a profound experience and almost like an effective natural tonic for the mind. You present this topic in such a beautiful way, thank you!

Thank you for sharing your joyous journey in the forest ☺

This is beautiful. I'd love to connect with anyone who has been practicing this, let me know your thoughts on it. I feel so out of alignment so I think I may start forrest bathing to connect with mother nature but also myself.

The healing power of nature! 💚

We need to discover the forest to live in balance in this technological times. Fall in love with her, and all that she offers us. Thank you

Absolutely beautiful video. Perfectly done. You are a great voice for the forest, and forest bathing. Thank you.

I feel so relaxed right now, you really managed to convey the beautiful energy of the forest. The details, the sounds, your words touch my heart. I was really there for a moment, what a wonderful video! A big hug from Argentina, thank you! ❤️

What a simply beautiful video Alexandra. Thank you for sharing your woodland, and your passion with us.

So much beauty in being in a forest, one feels alive and connected to mother nature.

I never really did forest bathing, not intentionally at least, but... This one time, in 2015, when I was working in a factory doing metal works there, physical work, I decided to save my rent money and cancelled the apartment rent deal, no more house for me. I started to sleep on the city woods, while working the days in the factory. It wasn't even that hard, the hardest part really was to cope with the fear that someone might come and kill me when I sleep, or something. I did that for nine months. And the effect? I quickly became more healthy, more vibrant, more vital, stronger, emotionally stronger too, and mentally. And lighter. I had a six-pack without overtraining my abs. I was lean and muscular unlike now, nine years later after coming back to a house to sleep. Coming back to house, I soon contracted psychosis and became a bit less healthy, bit fatter and maybe weaker too. Before starting to sleep in the woods, I was pretty miserable at the factory job. I felt it physically quite demanding, even though my co-workers seemed to be fine. And emotionally, I was miserable there too. But, after starting to sleep in the woods, there was a profound and quick change. Co-workers started to respect me more and notice me, and support me even a bit more. One of them had done the same sleeping in the woods while working thing, as I did. And his friend said, "soon everyone here will come to sleep to the woods nearby with you", hehe. I guess they saw what that did to me, and they approved. It might've been the best decision in my life. Before that I was studying a bit of the things I kinda wanted to, but when I started sleeping in the woods, I moved to study things I really wanted to study: Daoist secrets. Learned really nothing from the book, because I didn't put effort to the practice, but I studied other things like that too. I studied because I felt I was able, I felt good about it. We were once in the forests. Back when we were cavemen and women. We spent many lives there. Why should we suddenly stop, especially when there's no longer mammoths, sabertooths, tigers, wolverines nor other beasts that hunt us like prey? Yeah in USA at least there's cougars and bears, here too some bears, but bears don't usually attack you if you are calm and don't move fast and don't turn your back on them, nor surprise them when they've just had kids and are protecting them. Mama bear with kids is one of the worst things here you can run into. But hell, it's still better than being in the slavery and suffering of city life. The only part I still don't know well how to handle in the forests, is getting food, especially animal foods like meat and organs like liver and kidney and all parts of the animal, really. I'm not gonna get a gun and start hunting, not even a crossbow I think, just go to a market and buy meat, or fish some fish with fishing pole on the lake. Eat berries from the forest. Some sammal (fungi-like plant growing on rocks in here in Finland). Please lemme know if you have similar experiences, and what you think :) I'd love to hear you Mikko Murmeli

You found such a lovely forest there with all the flowers! Yes it is also a great way for me to "energize".