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.
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Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy
by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone.
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[@TheMinxy76]

I started practicing forest bathing after the first UK lockdown. I've been suffering with deep grief and depression since losing my sister to cancer in Jan 2020 and also as an introvert I feel a very deep connection with nature. To hear, see, smell and touch nature.... The textures, colours is amazing. Forest bathing has help me change my way of thinking and behaviour

[@joeanon8641]

Hope you’re feeling better 8 months along :)

[@davidknott369]

'You are not a guest in the forest, but you are part of the forest'. So Powerful. This has re-ignited my desire to go back into Nature. Thank you!!

[@AtlasVistas]

I'm glad someone else highlighted this! It's such a powerful quote, I really felt it deeply too. Really glad you have decided to reconnect with nature! 😊

[@marleyburkhardt3714]

I just love going into the forest and breathing deeply. Hugging the trees and taking it all. Its a natural depression buster.

[@johndyda5673]

As a nature lover and birdwatcher here in North Wales, this is something I want to do more of come Spring. Thank you ❤

[@xXAnthony619Xx]

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.

[@WritingArcadia]

This is an excellent forest bathing video. Thank you for posting it. Please make more videos about the same topic.

[@johncranwell3783]

A sweet film thank you 🙏 I've been doing this for some years but the practice so helped me recover from serious illness 5 years ago...blessings John 🙏

[@digitalvidya3636]

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.

[@AtlasVistas]

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!

[@cooki47]

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 😊❤️

[@WondrousEarth]

Thank you for sharing your joyous journey in the forest ☺

[@ellie...4399]

The healing power of nature! 💚

[@vickiwalker3486]

Absolutely beautiful video. Perfectly done. You are a great voice for the forest, and forest bathing. Thank you.

[@uncipaws7643]

You found such a lovely forest there with all the flowers! Yes it is also a great way for me to "energize".

[@katerobinson4365]

Your video really captures some of the elements that make forest bathing such a wonderful connecting experience, Alexandra.

[@bagnatoleandro8313]

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! ❤️

[@shaktiasise5191]

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.

[@mariannewolf57]

These serene scenes brought back childhood memories from the deep forests surrounding Weiz, Austria- where I was fortunate to grow up. After living for over 12 years in Los Angeles I will return soon, for healing and to find peace again. Thank you, Alexandra, for this wonderful video- I will keep watching it.

[@sheilajoseph9953]

So much beauty in being in a forest, one feels alive and connected to mother nature.

[@wildmatters8578]

Such a warming video with a lovely message. Thank you!

[@derekread8220]

Great video. I agree that Forest Bathing is something to be experienced. If your forest is sufficiently remote or you can find somewhere off the beaten track then using your imagination you can be even more immersive in the forest/woods.

[@AwakeningWARRlOR]

Nature Heals the Mind, Body and Soul.

[@Beeney]

Beautifully explained, thank you so much.

[@beverlyethridge5084]

So very peaceful ❤

[@marcoaureliobilibio1752]

Wonderful your experience with forests and your video, Alexandra

[@andrewleese3840]

Magical, thank you for making this video 🙏💚

[@kittensmakemesilly]

Thank you for this book recommendation. It’s exactly what I need right now. 🌸

[@yorielladelrio6260]

This is beautiful. I'd love to connect with anyone who has been practicing this, let me know your thoughts on it. I feel so out of alignment so I think I may start forrest bathing to connect with mother nature but also myself.

[@vickiwalker3486]

Check out ANFT, Association of Nature Therapy.

[@AtlasVistas]

I cannot recommend forest bathing enough. It is quite remarkable what regular immersion in nature can do for our mental wellbeing! Give it a try!! ❤

[@Jan-feelgood-forest-bathing]

What a simply beautiful video Alexandra. Thank you for sharing your woodland, and your passion with us.

[@sardarmairaj3558]

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[@spiritflower6640]

I loved what and how you shared in this video... i relate completely and deeply! How fortunate you are to get nature and forest bathing withoutmuch human created sound... besides your own 😊💗

[@MsVanilley]

What a beautiful video! It calmed me down and made me miss my childhood forest

[@kadirkacir12]

Merhaba. Tatlı. 💝🌷🌷🌷

[@Mr3c2b1a]

Thank you, your passion is intriguing.

[@kidenbhutia9355]

Awesome vedio ..❤..thanku soo much 🙏🙏💕💕

[@christinegerard4974]

Absolutely beautiful ! Thank you so much from France ..

[@annaakosua6304]

What a beautiful video! Thank you very much for sharing your experience. I always try to get plenty Nature Time in. Just finished reading the Nature Fix and learning about the science along with it is quite fascinating.

[@2011Yalira]

I love this ❤️ thanks for sharing

[@heatheralmoralis6112]

We need to discover the forest to live in balance in this technological times. Fall in love with her, and all that she offers us. Thank you

[@brianparks440]

Lovely. Thank you.

[@armandelufo5844]

Thank you so much for this video 💚💖

[@mikkos8636]

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

[@Mariana-iw5ws]

Cuanta belleza!!! Me encantan tus vídeos! Aunque no entiendo el idioma, siento que comprendo todo s través de las maravillosas imágenes 🥰. La magia del bosque llegó hasta aquí! Gracias!!!!💖💕

[@cecilsimitara6127]

I just love this so inspiring

[@jormond7266]

Wonderful. Thank you.

[@stevecharleston3248]

Very nice scenery!💙👍

[@christele990]

Your vidéos are wonderful. Tank you !!

[@annastayziaa]

Beautiful ♥️♥️♥️

[@shannonkringen]

Love it

[@forestclouds5349]

Beautiful x

[@TeeNorbu]

It’s beautiful

[@UmeshPerera]

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 :)

[@garychynne1377]

you made me laugh. thank yew. enjoyed mother nature. have a good fun day.

[@rogerrogers7393]

lovely forest

[@superH3108]

Lovely video!!! I totally agree with you. Nature is something you need to see with you eyes,listen with your ears and most of all feel with your bare soles. Our feet are meant/ created to be bare and that's why there are a number of sensors /nerve endings under our feet,which connects from top to toe. When we walk barefoot on sand gravel and and stones/pebbles,our entire body gets a stimulation. Not only that it allows your body to connect with the earth and absorb free Electrons from the earth's surface. I think you must be always barefoot at home(inside the house as well as in your garden )???

[@laforestachecura]

What beautiful frames you've used, I think I'll use them on my channel too 🕉

[@dr.anasuabagchi9312]

You are amazing.

[@TorMax9]

Beautiful, Alexandra! You should come to Vancouver and enjoy some old-growth forest, aka virgin forest and primaeval forest. We often hike up mountains and down to the sea, deep fjords, swimming in little mountain lakes along the way. In the winter, snowshoeing through the quiet. The quiet has its own tale to tell. Canoeing. Sailing. Flying. Obwohl ich Kanadier bin, spreche ich Deutsch; ich habe meine Doktorarbeit auf Deutsch an der Freien Universität Berlin geschrieben. Give me a shout if you can make it out to Beautiful British Columbia and welcome to join us. And my name is also Alexander. Tschüss!

[@pancabisa]

Great moment.. I also doing forest healing here in indonesia

[@mars9234]

ahh this is beautiful! i love to spend my mornings in the forest birdwatching, so i’m gonna have to try this! i’m a lil worried about ticks though since there’s so many where i am, is that a concern you experience too?

[@maryr6300]

As someone who was diagnosed and treated for Lyme 2 years ago, I still retreat to the forest! I just make sure as soon as I get home to remove my clothes and wash them!

[@NoelLago1]

GRACIAS MUY BELLO Y RELAJANTE.

[@morganam4099]

I would love to do this, but after watching criminal minds I wouldn't feel safe in the forest by myself

[@eggedon6112]

Beautiful expression of ♥️💕. You have gotten so much from The Forest. I wonder what The Forest has gotten from you? 😂 💖 Namaste 🙏🏾 ✌🏼

[@patsymalone3518]

Beautiful video. Thanks for sharing. New subcriber here. 😊❤

[@larss337]

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.

[@TheMjsmithy]

You are European, the forest is your home. It's a great feeling being home.

[@druidofthefaeryforest]

It changed my life too.

[@barbra429]

What do you do in the winter if you live in an area where it's very cold and lots of snow

[@ShengzhiLi]

You are so cool!

[@scoffy2]

Spend a night in the forest to really feel part of it

[@My24hradventure]

what a great channel! Sub'd 😊👍

[@robertkirk4387]

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.

[@LyndonSSmith]

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.

[@chinesevirusfactories3300]

is trail running or hiking can be considered as forest bathing?

[@francismausley7239]

Thank you... Blessings... "The country is the world of the soul, the city is the world of bodies." ~ Dr. J.E. Esslemont, Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era, Baha'i Faith

[@amazingreviews876]

God is Good!

[@GrievingForGrace]

Here on Long Island, we have a very bad problem with ticks and chiggers. How do you avoid these issues if going barefoot?

[@wadesaleeby2172]

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. ☺️🥰😍🤗

[@LS-ii3fy]

I give YESHUA all the glory for HIS beautiful creation

[@superH3108]

Nextime try it barefoot. That's the most effective way of connecting with Mother Nature. Our feet loves that and apart from that it allows your body to connect with the earth and absorb free Electrons from the earth's surface.

[@theultimatenonebelievr9379]

i really donot know all this stuff. but this last days I learned in America celebrity walk with bear foot also i watch on you tube. a man walking in the mall with bear foot. i never heard of this before

[@thatswhatisaidCA]

@@theultimatenonebelievr9379 "Bare" foot is right. ("Bear" is an animal.) Many spiritual teachings talk of connecting with the earth with bare feet. It is also called Earthing (planet Earth-ing).

[@theultimatenonebelievr9379]

@@thatswhatisaidCA thank you for correction. English is my 4th language. ✌🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾✌🏾

[@thatswhatisaidCA]

@@theultimatenonebelievr9379 Fantastic that you know so many languages!

[@spicybill]

I would love to try barefoot, but I'm terrified of all the ticks

[@kadirkacir12]

Tedrık Ederım seni. Bu çok güzel. Saygılar sevgiler seni 😍😍🌺🌼🌸🌹🌷🌹🌷🍁🦋

[@Daisika]

I’d love to try this but… living in southern Arizona be like: what’s a forest 👁👄👁

[@MDali-el4zm]

[@Endangwahyudin]

Salam dari indonesia

[@petersassytruth3069]

Alex, There are many benefits for this. Check it out. (3) Coronavirus Pandemic Update 56: What is “Forest Bathing” & Can It Boost Immunity Against Viruses? - KZbin

[@tashilhamu4510]

Until a bear comes by

[@nathanruckle4942]

I’m pretty sure no humans were around 2 million years ago 😅

[@alexandrareuter327]

I think you might have misremembered the words I was using. 😊 I think you are talking about Homo sapiens, our own species of human, which certainly haven't been around that long. But I didn't say Homo sapiens, or human, I said 'ancestors', because we all have an unbroken seamless chain of ancestors of our species, Homo sapiens, then other humans, like Homo erectus, then other non-human primates, then mammals, then reptiles, then fish... back to the origins of life. The senses and pleasures that get stimulated by being in a forest evolved at various points along that chain of life, most of them longer than 2 million years ago! I chose the dates I said specifically, because they represent very roughly when culturally modern humans, anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens), and humans (Homo) were enjoying being among trees in a very similar way to us. The point I'm making is that you don't need to be thinking in language to experience sunlight and restfulness in the forest like this. It's a sensory experience that is common to most primates. I was pretty fascinated with this wikipedia page about the classification of the human species when I was creating the video. 😄 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_taxonomy#Subspecies

[@orangewarm1]

Forrest bathing? You meaning walking in a forrest?

[@heynow33]

Gorl no

[@fluentpiffle]

A respite from human insanity..

[@enchancozreamy]

thanks a lot for the breathtaking video🪄💐 ❤