What forest bathing does to your body, and the 5 best places to try it
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM You probably already know the feeling, even if you’ve never had a name for it. The way your shoulders drop and relax the moment you step under a canopy of trees. How the breath comes a little easier. The mental noise that slowly melts away, not because of any conscious effort, but just because the trees were there and you were walking among them. That feeling has a name: shinrin-yoku, a Japanese term meaning “forest bathing” or “taking in the forest atmospher
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