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*Image: Landscape by Asher B. Durand, 1867 [Brooklyn Museum, New York]
By David Warren, The Catholic Thing, Jan. 27, 2023
David Warren is a former editor of the Idler magazine and columnist in Canadian newspapers. He has extensive experience in the Near and Far East. His blog, Essays in Idleness, is now to be found at: davidwarrenonline.com.
One of my favorite placebo effects is to walk in a forest. I had not thought of it as a way to preserve my sanity, or as a rehabilitative exercise, until this was pointed out to me. I just did it as an occasional response to an attractive forest, when I could find a way in. To my imagination it is better than, say, swimming in hot tar.
I think that professional medical research has found no conspicuous benefit to this activity, although it is only banned as part of Batflu precautions.
If I were Japanese, which I have never been, I might call this activity Shinrin-yoku, which means, apparently, “bathing in the forest.” It is an art form invented only forty years ago by some bureaucrat in the Japanese government, who thought it would be good for people, and ought to be encouraged. It then spread overseas. …
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