Forest Therapy

A Walk a Day keeps the Doctor Away

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Stately oaks are ‘tree royalty’ in the woods. Beech trees too. Enduring and strong.

I often take a walk in the woods near my house in Westchester County, NY.

I live in a village and walk on paved streets to reach the forest trail, taking rapid strides and often breathing  in chilled morning air. I catch the early sunlight through the trees. It is such a wonderful time and I feel calmer and more centered afterward.

My little morning reverie now has a name: 'forest bathing' or, in the original Japanese, 'Shinrin-yoku'.