How Fall Changes Our Mood? Every year when falls come around I always have that similar feeling. The days are changing, the smells and colors are changing. The familiar places have different ‘clothes’ on. I started to wonder if there is a scientific way to describe what nature and us, humans are going through this …
How to Photograph Trees? Trees are visually attractive for a lot of reasons. They offer crazy, funky shapes, they filter light, they frame things well. They’re just great to look at and make interesting subjects of photography. Can you remember the feeling you get when you saw a majestic tree in the forest? Sometimes images …
How can Trees Heal Us? If we could go back in time to see how our ancestors used nature to heal their body and mind, we could learn some amazing remedies. Lots of people use herbs or ingredients for healing found in the forest. My friend Jaime can’t walk ten steps in the forest without …
How to Determine the Age of a Tree? How often have you seen a big tree and wondered how old it was? What has it lived through? People must have been guessing the age of trees for a long time, right? We learned you can count the the rings of a cross section, trunk to …
Sharpen Your Senses Through Forest Therapy! A huge part of Forest Therapy is to help people reconnect to nature. Living in a big city and being surrounded by concrete can be noisy, stressful, and lonely. Nature has an amazing power to heal the human body and by recognizing its power with all of our senses …
How does Forest Bathing Effect Anxiety and Depression? Have you ever wondered why people listen to the ocean or the rain on a sound machine to fall asleep? Why are there thousands and thousands of calming and stress relief music on YouTube where we can listen to the wind and sounds of nature? Our cell …
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Finding Mindfulness Among the Trees Forest Therapy can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. For a visual, just imagine an umbrella of healing called Forest Therapy. The handle of the umbrella is made up of elements of therapy including Forest Bathing, Shinrin-Yoku, and Forest Remedy. There’s lots of evidence and scientific …