
Try forest bathing (shinrin-yoku)
Immerse yourself in a woodland setting, engaging all your senses to absorb the calming, restorative power of nature.
A few first steps
- 1
Choose accessible woodland
It does not need to be remote or spectacular. A small local wood works entirely well.
- 2
Leave the phone away or silent
The practice is attention, and a phone is the single most reliable interruption to it.
- 3
Walk absurdly slowly
A few hundred meters in an hour. If you are covering distance, you are hiking rather than forest bathing.