Why Spending Time among Trees is Important

How forestbathing realigns the senses

Let me tell you about about my forest. It is not about emotions it engenders, but the senses. The lush green, bursting at the seams, and summer scent of pine, and thyme. There is the crunching of pine needles underfoot, the breeze ushering the trees forth, and back.

You were mistaught about the five senses in school. In reality there are more than five, of course. Along with sight, touch, smell, taste and hearing, there is the sense of balance, and sense of time, among others. There is common sense, too.

The purpose of getting you to scan so far, though, is not to show you how the forest can help you keep the five senses so present and alive, as well as show how sense of balance and common sense are so important, but to immerse you into a new concept — of leaving emotions behind, focusing on the senses, and experiencing them.