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What is Forest Bathing? Shinrin Yoku Health Benefits
Forest bathing, also known as Shinrin Yoku, is growing in popularity. People are facing an increasing amount of stress, and are looking for ways to recharge and improve their health. The health benefits of forest bathing, spending time in nature, are very clear to me. So I decided to do some research and share my learning, and actual experience from living in my own forest, with you.
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because i live in a forest in this episode i thought we'd talk about forest bathing or as it's called in japan shinrin yoku [Music] so shinrin yoku was developed in japan in the in the early 80s 1982. a guy called dr quin lee went off and developed a whole medicine forest medicine program for japan because you could see that people that were living in japan were completely stressed out because they lived in high-rise buildings and ran around really noisy noisy life and if they couldn't make it home on the train and they had the pushes with the white gloves to cram twice as many people into the train as the train was designed for and if those people didn't even get in they had to spend the night in a pod like a space capsule stroke coughing with the television set in it i mean really they worked out that what they ought to do is to get the people into the forest because then they get the benefit of the forest so they started to study what the benefits of the forest were and very slowly we've now 40 50 years later got 62 temples throughout japan and they're starting to come to north america so i thought i'd look into it and i want to share that with you [Music] we've known for millennia that walking in the forest feels good like the longer you spend here the more relaxed you feel the more your immune system is boosted what shinrin yoku has done has taken those qualities and looked at them scientifically and come back with a list of things and reasons why that's happening it's actually articulating what we feel and that's what's so interesting about it to me [Music] the consequence of living in an urban society we're all stacked on up on top of each other is stress and stress the body deals with that with uh with a cortisol our body naturally releases cortisol which is fine because it's a requirement for our life the problem with it is it sends our uh it sends our system out of balance if we're continually being triggered by um by cortisol which activates our our sympathetic nervous system the sympathetic nervous system activates our fight or flight mode so it puts us on high alert and if we're consistently creating cortisol then we're consistently amped up and we all know that that does not feel nice so what being outside and being in nature does it activates our para sympathetic nervous system which is the one that's associated with rest and recovery so rest and recovery walking around calming down we're not producing as much cortisol therefore our body starts to relax and once we learn to breathe properly and use our five or six senses in this environment we can really start to feel our immune system build again and us feel much much healthier and happier [Music] we've already talked about the benefits of forest bathing in regard to boosting the immune system and helping us with sleep but also reduces stress decreases anxiety depression and anger improves mood relaxes us calms us and it can even help us levitate okay i just made the last one up one thing the japanese scientists have found is that the forest gives off these aerosol compounds called phyto phyton sites phyton in greek is plant and side means kill so literally they're aerosol terpenes and pionenes and d-limonenes which reduce insect attacks um it's part of their communication system and it also helps eliminate fungus that are detrimental to the health of the forest as a human because we've grown up among these trees our body has learned to synthesize these compounds really really effectively so what we've got is something that is really really beneficial to all the things that we mentioned about the uh that are suppressing the immune system these will all lift our immune system and with the benefits that we've already talked about specifically phyton sides help with the development of nk cells in our immune system these nk cells are known as natural killer cells they will attack cancerous cells they will also attack cells that are infected by foreign viruses and that is something that i'm sure a lot of pharmaceutical companies would love to know about and i think they already do [Music] so the terpenes and the pioneers you'll notice especially under the pine you'll notice that they have well they smell of pine diliminene is has a more of a herby kind of smell a lemony smell some of the alpha and beta pinenes have again more of a basil smell more of a musty smell each tree has its own smell each odor that it emits each aerosol that it emits has its own effect has a different effect on our system so the longer we spend walking in the forest collectively the better off we will feel because our bodies will be absorbing these all these these good qualities and in fact they found that in japan they found that if one one forest two hour forest war a month actually increases the number of nk cells and natural killer cells that attach themselves they're like white blood cells um by 50 and they will last for a month so imagine if you lived in a forest and you can walk every every day among among the trees you're going to have a lot healthier life because your body and your immune system is being bolstered by what's around us and it's free [Music] me [Music] literally means forest and yoku means bathing so literally with forest bathing but forest bathing uses all the senses we've got sight sound taste touch smell and one more which is i believe a connection to spirit or an awareness of energy of things that are going on in the forest each part of the forest especially this forest has a individual feel and an individual chemical makeup and as i walk through it i i can 100 percent and other people i've walked around here have picked up on it and gone wait a minute it feels like a darker more an older energy in this part of the forest or this is an open brighter happier feeling place and that may well be because of energies that are locked into the space the history of the trees the trees that they've had the plants around and also the chemistry the aerosol in in the in this in the air that we're smelling that changes from one location to another location and that's why being out in this uh a forest walk for two hours will just completely clear you out and reset your body and all of those all of those cortisol strains and stresses will just disappear into the ground and and grounding is a very part a very important part of why we don't use shoes generally when we're walking in the forest it's so that we can allow that natural there's a natural electronic electrical connection between us and the floor of the forest and with with the shoes that that breaks that connection without shoes it allows that electric electrical circuit that electrical current to be completed by us as we walk through and completely literally just ground out and what we're doing when we ground out is we're replacing positive ions with negative ions it's the negative ions that we find very beneficial to our body plants give them off and in cities in rooms you can get very very low doses of negative ions and very very high doses of positive ions so again along with the all the aerosols there's this magnetic and electrical connection that we have and that's what i call the the connection to spirit that sixth sense it's there it's 100 there i hope you've enjoyed this introduction to shinrin yoku and forest bathing i hope i've inspired you to go out into the forest and with your rubber ducky and your shower cap and do some bathing of your own [Music] like and subscribe
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What a lovely video! It's perfect! Thank you for taking the time to create it and for your eloquent explanations. 💫🌍🌎🌏🍃🔥❣
Ive always felt more at home in the woods than anywhere else.
Beautiful
Thank you for sharing this wonderful video on forest bathing, I have just signed up to an afternoon course on this in Devon uk 🌳🙏🌳
GOD strictly forbids occultism and spiritism! Please don't worship nature, worship our CREATOR! Accept JESUS CHRIST as your Lord and Savior today!!! Please read the Bible, listen to real theologians like Dr. John Ankerberg, Dr. David Reagan and their guests – also on end times events.
Love this! 💚🏞️
You're a brave man Richard. 😄 I think it's simpler than that. For me we are reacting on a psychological level to the tones of the forest. Although, I suppose the end result is the same. Oh, and you know that Gavin Hardcastle has nicked your catchphrase? He's a bad egg that man. 😆