Forest Therapy 🌲

Just a reminder to get outside and spend time in nature! 🌿🌻🌲 With our hot summers, that takes some planning. Early morning or dusk are usually cooler times of the day. Go for a walk with a friend 🚶🏽🚶🏻‍♀️, or find a quiet place to sit in solitude 🧘🏽‍♂️. Take some meditation beads 📿 with you and chant meditation sound on the beads as you walk or sit: Gopala Govinda Rama Madana Mohana ✨

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Reposted • @scienceofessentials

🌲”There is nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend” - Bob Ross🌲

Studies have shown that a walk in the forest can:
•Decrease stress hormones such as cortisol
•Decrease proteins involved in inflammation
•Improve cardiovascular health
•Increase antioxidant activity
•Increase relaxation for the mind and body
•Increase Natural killer cell activity

PMID: 26124129

🌲A 2022 study on University students showed positive mood and vigor was improved significantly and negative moods such as tension, anxiety, depression, anger, hostility and fatigue were reduced after inhaling fir essential oil. PMID: 35564457

🌲 In another study with female university students it was found that inhaling hinoki essential oil increases parasympathetic nervous activity and induces physiological relaxation. PMID 26694076