{"id":3462,"date":"2018-04-25T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2018-04-20T17:12:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T15:12:21","slug":"a-naturists-view-on-forest-bathing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/2018\/04\/a-naturists-view-on-forest-bathing\/","title":{"rendered":"A naturist&#8217;s view on &#8220;forest bathing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Forest bathing?<\/h2>\n<p>Yep. Forest bathing. It&#8217;s not that you shower with leaves (although it&#8217;s an option), but it&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/804022\/health-benefits-japanese-forest-bathing\/\">Japanese practice<\/a>. It merely means that you go among the trees. Trees and other forms of nature have a positive influence on people. They bring peace and rest, and stress levels go down rapidly when among trees.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3484\" src=\"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pwpforest.jpg\" alt=\"In the forest\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pwpforest.jpg 480w, https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pwpforest-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love going into the forest and lucky me, I have a small one right across the street. Forests are good. They provide air, shade, good smells (usually) and&#8230; you can bathe in them. Quoting from the site I linked to up there:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Forest bathing\u2014basically just being in the presence of trees\u2014became part of a national public health program in Japan\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/life\/2016\/10\/01\/travel\/forest-bathing-mindful-walk-inspired-japanese-concept\/#.V_gd4os-Ci4\">in 1982<\/a>\u00a0when the forestry ministry coined the phrase\u00a0<em>shinrin-yoku\u00a0<\/em>and promoted topiary as therapy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The entire article is quite a read but worth the while, I think. It tells you so much about trees and being in a forest. There&#8217;s no need to walk, run or do anything. Leave your Fitbit at home, there&#8217;s no race, no record to break. The only thing you should\u00a0<em>break<\/em> there is the tidal wave of stress and other impressions that life throws at you.<\/p>\n<p>The article doesn&#8217;t mention nudity so if you&#8217;re looking for nekkid people you&#8217;re out of luck, but if you&#8217;re there and you have the opportunity&#8230; take off your stuff and enjoy the forest in the most natural way. Naked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forest bathing? Yep. Forest bathing. It&#8217;s not that you shower with leaves (although it&#8217;s an option), but it&#8217;s a Japanese practice. It merely means that you go among the trees. Trees and other forms of nature have a positive influence on people. They bring peace and rest, and stress levels go down rapidly when among &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/2018\/04\/a-naturists-view-on-forest-bathing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A naturist&#8217;s view on &#8220;forest bathing&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[430],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-nudism-2","tag-forest-bathing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3485,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions\/3485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}