I STARTED FOREST BATHING & IT CHANGED MY LIFE | why you should try it & how to start shinrin-yoku!
I STARTED FOREST BATHING & IT CHANGED MY LIFE | why you should try it & how to start shinrin-yoku!
Forest bathing truly has changed my life for the better! It’s such a simple concept yet it has been so profound and healing for me.
The book I’ve mentioned in the video:
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy
by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone.
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Very nice video. Thanks for sharing.
Have a look of my channel "A whisper of Nature" I just downloaded a video about Forest Bathing 🙂 I wish you all a beautiful and peaceful day.
What beautiful frames you’ve used, I think I’ll use them on my channel too 🕉
slow down you crazy child, you’re too ambitious for a juvenile…billy joel…. I love this kind of thing…when I get into the woods I am constantly looking up and around. I get lost in mother nature and my senses come into focus like your pupil coming from darkness into light…so very calming, awakening and pleasing. ☺️🥰😍🤗
Thank you Alexandra🙏❤️☺️
What a beautiful spiritual video,
What a lovely heart,
Kindness and love entwined, honesty and beauty poring out in the form of poetry from your beautiful self🙏❤️☺️
Love & Metta, umesh 🙂
Lovely! Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely beautiful ! Thank you so much from France ..
Having always lived in Scandinavia, this is not so dramatic. There is almost always forests around. But I agree that it is a special experience.
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!
The healing power of nature! 💚
Our ancestors knew this and embraced it, it is something that some (most) of us have lost, let it wash over and through you and it is better than any drug, it is intoxicating and addictive.
Stick with it girl.
So much beauty in being in a forest, one feels alive and connected to mother nature.
Yes! subbed ☀ – just began my practice and filmed a #forest bathing video recently – thank you for sharing ❤🔥
A respite from human insanity..
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! ❤️
Love it
This is an excellent forest bathing video.
Thank you for posting it.
Please make more videos about the same topic.
Absolutely beautiful video. Perfectly done. You are a great voice for the forest, and forest bathing. Thank you.
I give YESHUA all the glory for HIS beautiful creation
Awesome vedio ..❤..thanku soo much 🙏🙏💕💕
Nature gives us so much—healing, peace, and energy.
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 😊❤️
Thank you for sharing your joyous journey in the forest ☺
I’d love to try this but… living in southern Arizona be like: what’s a forest 👁👄👁
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.
So very peaceful ❤
Great moment.. I also doing forest healing here in indonesia
thanks a lot for the breathtaking video🪄💐 ❤
<3
Until a bear comes by
Spend a night in the forest to really feel part of it
Magical, thank you for making this video 🙏💚
I’m pretty sure no humans were around 2 million years ago 😅
God is Good!
This isn’t cheseesy it’s great to spend time with Her (nature) the womb from where all humanity and mature come from. Feeling as part of the forest, as you put it, is a great way to connect with the force that sustains us. Thank you. Lyndon S.
As a nature lover and birdwatcher here in North Wales, this is something I want to do more of come Spring. Thank you ❤
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.
Lovely. Thank you.
You are European, the forest is your home.
It’s a great feeling being home.
You are amazing.
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
Alexendara ,wonder full journey and beautiful video ever have seen,you GREAT women of UNIVERSE really
Nature Heals the Mind, Body and Soul.
Beautiful expression of ♥️💕. You have gotten so much from The Forest. I wonder what The Forest has gotten from you? 😂 💖
Namaste 🙏🏾 ✌🏼
is trail running or hiking can be considered as forest bathing?
You are so cool!
Thank you for this book recommendation. It’s exactly what I need right now. 🌸
Here on Long Island, we have a very bad problem with ticks and chiggers. How do you avoid these issues if going barefoot?
Love it and sharing.
I would love to do this, but after watching criminal minds I wouldn’t feel safe in the forest by myself
I just discovered your channel and your videos this morning and it makes me really so happy just watching them.
You are filming so heartwarming and with so much mindfulness, that I’m feeling it so authentically and real in front of my screen here in Germany.
But for now I will stop watching your video, so that i can prepare myself going in the forest 🌳. All the best for you and 🙏🏻 thank you.