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Grabbed the Hasselbad and shot a roll while walking in the forest
Hasselblad + Carl Zeiss Distagon 50mm f4.0 + Arista EDU Ultra 400 @ 250 + HC-110 H @ 13 minutes
Web Link:
advancedhomewellness.com/biophilia-phytoncides-ultimate-s...
www.natureandforesttherapy.org/
Biophilia, Phytoncides & the Ultimate Stress Relief for the Modern Urban Life: Forest Bathing
A relaxing exploration of humans’ naturally healing biophilic response to nature, and the new scientific understandings of phytoncides as one of the mechanisms behind the immune boosting effects of being immersed in nature.
Today we are exploring the practice known as Forest Bathing, which is scientifically backed with lots of compelling scientific research now coming mostly out of Japan.
The word “biophilia” means the love of nature, and the idea of humans having a naturally healing biophilic response when in the presence of nature has been a popular theory for decades, especially in architecture and design.
This is the reason why it has long been fashionable to put indoor gardens, fountains and potted plants in office buildings, as many studies have demonstrated this investment actually pays off in employee wellness and productivity.
The basic idea of a biophilic response is that when we are in the presence of nature, living plants, running water, as well as natural shapes and patterns, then our body can much more easily go into a parasympathetic state, wherein we can easily relax, digest and focus, and wherein our immune system is supported.
In contrast, if we in a sympathetic stress response, then we have adrenaline pumping which pressurize us and injects intense levels of energy into our system, while also suppressing our immune system. Stress can easily happen at work, in offices and we can be affected by the stress of other people working with us. This is then exacerbated even more by the lack of natural environment: the artificial florescent lights, the metal, dry wall and plastic, the straight lines and 90 degree angles, none of which exist in nature.
Creating natural environments indoors in order to induce a biophilic response has been used with moderation to improve employee wellness for many decades. But the new research now coming mostly out of Japan is taking the power of nature to new levels.
With Forest Bathing, not only do you get a powerful biophilic response, because you are immersed in nature, but new research shows that forest air contain compounds called phytoncides which dramatically boost immune function.
So Forest Bathing actually combines multiple effective mechanisms to produce a synergistic effect which greatly reduces stress levels and boost immune function.
The Association of Nature and Forest Therapy has developed many different programs for people wanting to use nature as therapy, from 3 hour protocols to multi-day programs which promise increased levels of physical, mental and emotional wellness.
I feel very blessed to live in a mixed forest with redwoods, pines, oaks, madrones and other types of trees right in my backyard, and I also am not too far from the ocean, which is another excellent place to go to receive the deep rejuvenation that nature offers. Though there are no phytoncides at the beach like in forest air, so the rejuvenation we get at the beach is more about the electrons we receive from the negative ions produced by crashing waves as well as from the direct access to the Earth’s 8hz charge.
Check out the AHW episode on Grounding for more information about that.
Web Link:
advancedhomewellness.com/biophilia-phytoncides-ultimate-s...
www.natureandforesttherapy.org/
Biophilia, Phytoncides & the Ultimate Stress Relief for the Modern Urban Life: Forest Bathing
A relaxing exploration of humans’ naturally healing biophilic response to nature, and the new scientific understandings of phytoncides as one of the mechanisms behind the immune boosting effects of being immersed in nature.
Today we are exploring the practice known as Forest Bathing, which is scientifically backed with lots of compelling scientific research now coming mostly out of Japan.
The word “biophilia” means the love of nature, and the idea of humans having a naturally healing biophilic response when in the presence of nature has been a popular theory for decades, especially in architecture and design.
This is the reason why it has long been fashionable to put indoor gardens, fountains and potted plants in office buildings, as many studies have demonstrated this investment actually pays off in employee wellness and productivity.
The basic idea of a biophilic response is that when we are in the presence of nature, living plants, running water, as well as natural shapes and patterns, then our body can much more easily go into a parasympathetic state, wherein we can easily relax, digest and focus, and wherein our immune system is supported.
In contrast, if we in a sympathetic stress response, then we have adrenaline pumping which pressurize us and injects intense levels of energy into our system, while also suppressing our immune system. Stress can easily happen at work, in offices and we can be affected by the stress of other people working with us. This is then exacerbated even more by the lack of natural environment: the artificial florescent lights, the metal, dry wall and plastic, the straight lines and 90 degree angles, none of which exist in nature.
Creating natural environments indoors in order to induce a biophilic response has been used with moderation to improve employee wellness for many decades. But the new research now coming mostly out of Japan is taking the power of nature to new levels.
With Forest Bathing, not only do you get a powerful biophilic response, because you are immersed in nature, but new research shows that forest air contain compounds called phytoncides which dramatically boost immune function.
So Forest Bathing actually combines multiple effective mechanisms to produce a synergistic effect which greatly reduces stress levels and boost immune function.
The Association of Nature and Forest Therapy has developed many different programs for people wanting to use nature as therapy, from 3 hour protocols to multi-day programs which promise increased levels of physical, mental and emotional wellness.
I feel very blessed to live in a mixed forest with redwoods, pines, oaks, madrones and other types of trees right in my backyard, and I also am not too far from the ocean, which is another excellent place to go to receive the deep rejuvenation that nature offers. Though there are no phytoncides at the beach like in forest air, so the rejuvenation we get at the beach is more about the electrons we receive from the negative ions produced by crashing waves as well as from the direct access to the Earth’s 8hz charge.
Check out the AHW episode on Grounding for more information about that.
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved: After Nazim Hikmet →
I always knew I loved the sky,
the way it seems solid and insubstantial at the same time;
the way it disappears above us
even as we pursue it in a climbing plane,
like wishes or answers to certain questions — always out of reach;
the way it embodies blue,
even when it is gray.
But I didn’t know I loved the clouds,
those shaggy eyebrows glowering
over the face of the sun.
Perhaps I only love the strange shapes clouds can take,
as if they are sketches by an artist
who keeps changing her mind.
Perhaps I love their deceptive softness,
like a bosom I’d like to rest my head against
but never can.
And I know I love the grass, even as I am cutting it as short
as the hair on my grandson’s newly barbered head.
I love the way the smell of grass can fill my nostrils
with intimations of youth and lust;
the way it stains my handkerchief with meanings
that never wash out.
Sometimes I love the rain, staccato on the roof,
and always the snow when I am inside looking out
at the blurring around the edges of parked cars
and trees. And I love trees,
in winter when their austere shapes
are like the cutout silhouettes artists sell at fairs
and in May when their branches
are fuzzy with growth, the leaves poking out
like new green horns on a young deer.
But how about the sound of trains,
those drawn-out whistles of longing in the night,
like coyotes made of steam and steel, no color at all,
reminding me of prisoners on chain gangs I’ve only seen
in movies, defeated men hammering spikes into rails,
the burly guards watching over them?
Those whistles give loneliness and departure a voice.
It is the kind of loneliness I can take in my arms, tasting
of tears that comfort even as they burn, dampening the pillows
and all the feathers of all the geese who were plucked to fill
them.
Perhaps I embrace the music of departure — song without lyrics,
so I can learn to love it, though I don’t love it now.
For at the end of the story, when sky and clouds and grass,
and even you my love of so many years,
have almost disappeared,
it will be all there is left to love.
— Linda Pastan, from Queen of a Rainy Country) More about Nazim Hikmet here, and a warm thank you to Starting Out Fresh for posting it.
Forest bathing on my blog: www.dianeschuller.com/2018/03/05/forest-bathing/
With sincere appreciation to all who view and fave any of my images and most especially those of you able to take time to leave a comment -- thank you.
This image is from a Meridian Raw CIC facilitated photography trip to Ashclyst Forest at Killerton Estate, as part of the Chasing the Light Photography Project in Exeter, Devon, UK on Thursday 24th March, 2022.
The wide opening in the rolling, sandy topography here in the lee of the Lake Michigan shoreline makes for a beautiful scene to observe or to record and send to friends and family far away. Amateur and personal photography is one kind of culture in the life of a person or the life of a society. Compared to the earliest times when boxy cameras on tripods with light-sensitive glass plates, the shirt-pocket power of a cellphone with camera is mind-boggling; not only is it so portable and capable for so many subjects and lighting conditions, but editing and transmission are only a few taps, swipes, and keystrokes away. Form-factor that minimizes the friction of those ancient cameras means that a majority of people can now record moving and still images at a moment's notice, more or less spontaneously. As technological advances give a person more and more ways to use visual records of events, property, process, and outcomes, the meaning of making & using pictures also changes.
In this example, what might be motivating the composition and then the subsequent use of the captured moment? (1) record of personal accomplishment or place visited, (2) emotional response to beauty recognized in the setting, the light, and the relationship of self to the surrounding space, (3) something considered worthy to share with others, both known and dear (friends/family), and those less well known (social media that is visible to all sorts of viewers), (4) a trophy or notch in one's hiking season, (5) aide de memoire so that a place can be revisited electronically. Perhaps there are other meanings to the act of snapping a photo: showing off a new gadget to fellow hiker, challenging oneself to use the range of user controls in the camera to faithfully represent the colors and lighting, or maybe a personal project such as "one photo per day" blog.
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LINES LOST AMONG TREES
These are not the lines that came to me
while walking in the woods
with no pen
and nothing to write on anyway.
They are gone forever,
a handful of coins
dropped through the grate of memory,
along with the ingenious mnemonic
I devised to hold them in place -
all gone and forgotten
before I had returned to the clearing of lawn
in back of our quiet house
with its jars jammed with pens,
its notebooks and reams of blank paper,
its desk and soft lamp,
its table and the light from its windows.
So this is my elegy for them,
those six or eight exhalations,
the braided rope of syntax,
the jazz of the timing,
and the little insight at the end
wagging like the short tail
of a perfectly obedient spaniel
sitting by the door.
This is my envoy to nothing
where I say Go, little poem -
not out into the world of strangers' eyes,
but off to some airy limbo,
home to lost epics,
unremembered names,
and fugitive dreams
such as the one I had last night,
which, like a fantastic city in pencil,
erased itself
in the bright morning air
just as I was waking up.
- Billy Collins
SA
GetOutdoors! Photo contest 2018
Park info www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks/bear-creek-lake#general_...
Forestbathing in the sun
Grabbed the Hasselbad and shot a roll while walking in the forest.
Not all was quiet in this forest as a major highway runs along the edge of it.
Hasselblad + Carl Zeiss Distagon 50mm f4.0 + Arista EDU Ultra 400 @ 250 + HC-110 H @ 13 minutes
Web Link:
advancedhomewellness.com/biophilia-phytoncides-ultimate-s...
www.natureandforesttherapy.org/
Biophilia, Phytoncides & the Ultimate Stress Relief for the Modern Urban Life: Forest Bathing
A relaxing exploration of humans’ naturally healing biophilic response to nature, and the new scientific understandings of phytoncides as one of the mechanisms behind the immune boosting effects of being immersed in nature.
Today we are exploring the practice known as Forest Bathing, which is scientifically backed with lots of compelling scientific research now coming mostly out of Japan.
The word “biophilia” means the love of nature, and the idea of humans having a naturally healing biophilic response when in the presence of nature has been a popular theory for decades, especially in architecture and design.
This is the reason why it has long been fashionable to put indoor gardens, fountains and potted plants in office buildings, as many studies have demonstrated this investment actually pays off in employee wellness and productivity.
The basic idea of a biophilic response is that when we are in the presence of nature, living plants, running water, as well as natural shapes and patterns, then our body can much more easily go into a parasympathetic state, wherein we can easily relax, digest and focus, and wherein our immune system is supported.
In contrast, if we in a sympathetic stress response, then we have adrenaline pumping which pressurize us and injects intense levels of energy into our system, while also suppressing our immune system. Stress can easily happen at work, in offices and we can be affected by the stress of other people working with us. This is then exacerbated even more by the lack of natural environment: the artificial florescent lights, the metal, dry wall and plastic, the straight lines and 90 degree angles, none of which exist in nature.
Creating natural environments indoors in order to induce a biophilic response has been used with moderation to improve employee wellness for many decades. But the new research now coming mostly out of Japan is taking the power of nature to new levels.
With Forest Bathing, not only do you get a powerful biophilic response, because you are immersed in nature, but new research shows that forest air contain compounds called phytoncides which dramatically boost immune function.
So Forest Bathing actually combines multiple effective mechanisms to produce a synergistic effect which greatly reduces stress levels and boost immune function.
The Association of Nature and Forest Therapy has developed many different programs for people wanting to use nature as therapy, from 3 hour protocols to multi-day programs which promise increased levels of physical, mental and emotional wellness.
I feel very blessed to live in a mixed forest with redwoods, pines, oaks, madrones and other types of trees right in my backyard, and I also am not too far from the ocean, which is another excellent place to go to receive the deep rejuvenation that nature offers. Though there are no phytoncides at the beach like in forest air, so the rejuvenation we get at the beach is more about the electrons we receive from the negative ions produced by crashing waves as well as from the direct access to the Earth’s 8hz charge.
Check out the AHW episode on Grounding for more information about that.