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Incorporating Forest Bathing into Your Daily Routine

by FBFinder | Feb 23, 2023 | Health Benefits

Forest bathing, also known as shinrin-yoku, is a practice that involves immersing oneself in nature in order to promote physical and mental well-being. This practice has gained popularity in recent years, especially as a way to counteract the stress and pressures of...

Replace Your Technology with Shinrin-Yoku

by Phyllis Abramson, RN, PhD. | Jul 31, 2022 | Health Benefits

Have we all been overpowered by our increasing (nonstop) use of technology? There are so many types of technology surrounding us that we can barely keep up with all of our gadgets. From our wearable items to our personal laptops, tablets, and phones to...

Inspiring Nature = Ensuring Nature?

by David Motzenbecker | Jul 29, 2022 | Health Benefits

As those who follow me know, I have long been touting the positive benefits of humanity’s connection to and immersion in nature. It is exciting to see this ancient idea re-embraced. What I find exciting is how something disregarded or dismissed in the recent past as a...

How Contact with Nature Can Improve Your Mental Health

by FBF Contributor | Apr 26, 2022 | Health Benefits

For all of human existence the concept of nature as a Maternal figure has been a comforting thought. Mother Nature, Gaia, Terra, Mother Earth all are names we’ve given to nature, something that humans forget we are a part of. Our contact with nature is very...

First Responders & The Forest: Ancient Meets Modern

by David Motzenbecker | Feb 15, 2022 | Health Benefits

Forests have existed for millennia. Like first responders, they offer reassurance, and by the power of their existence, help us to breathe and live. Just as first responders hold the power of life or death in their control, so too does the forest. Without trees, we...

Storytelling and Triggers

by Holly Barber | Jan 15, 2022 | Health Benefits, Insights, Research

Once upon a time in a land far far away … or so the story goes. They are words that have started so many stories over the years. That have taken us to lands where everything and anything is possible and that everyone lives happily ever after. Well most of the time...