This beautifully basic cultivation of a deep connectivity between humans and the Mother Nature is the practical way of simple living, pure thinking and harmonious being according to shinrin-yoku { “forest therapy” }. In 2003, prof Miyazaki, an author of “Shinrin-yoku” proposed this terms as a result of his research of the essence of relaxing sensations encountered while surrounded by Nature.
Everyday moments provide an enormous portfolio of stimuli to our senses.
Touch, smell, hearing, taste and sight are generously fed with data that oftentimes leaves us with this silent avalanche of over-processed stimulants and excessive packages of stress.
Whether it happens occasionally or frequently, the modern urban style of living impacts our overall wellbeing by decreasing concentration, increasing blood pressure, and minimising the ability to retain information. This constant exposure to high levels of stress challenges the quality of our living making harder for an immune system to protect and prevent our body, mind and future opportunities from an inability to maintain happy and fulfilled state of mind.
Using Nature and all Her richness of forms as a method of treatment for improving a general quality of moments that turn into hours, days and years, and share this common characteristic of wellbeing cannot sound simpler and it is.
In Nature therapy, our five senses have the chance to be engaged, challenged, and nourished in a very organic way…
listening to the water stream flowing from the higher grounds of a forest, smelling freshly picked branch of birch for a rustic-style composition for our kitchen table, hugging tightly a tree, enjoying the view of birds flying above the highest oaks or eating that first blackberry modestly hidden amongst the bushes’ leaves…