Books, Research Articles, Shinrin-Yoku/Forest Bathing/Forest Therapy
On our changing relationship with nature, the modern mental health crisis, and the reconciliation between scientific knowledge and direct experience.
I often find myself questioning something as ordinary as the expression spending time in nature. It is a phrase we use so naturally that we rarely stop to consider what it implies. As though nature were somewhere outside us, a place we occasionally visit before returning to our actual lives. But when did nature become somewhere we go, rather than somewhere we belong?
Perhaps this question offers a starting point for understanding why Shinrin-Yoku, Forest Bathing, and Forest Therapy Guides may have an increasingly important role in contemporary society.
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