The Healing Power Of Forest Bathing

Forest bathing, or tree bathing, is a lost healing art much needed in this era of technology. It is a powerful, natural healing tool for cleansing the aura and chakras, and it doesn’t cost anything. The Japanese call it Shinrin-Yoku, or ‘forest medicine.’

Tree bathing is to allow the trees and plants to filter your energy, like they filter the air – in with the good, pure and new… and out with the toxic thoughts and feelings of anger and fear. There is a tremendous benefit to being in nature without having to achieve, compete, accomplish, or do something.

Trees are believed to have a secret language they use to communicate with each other. This language helps to heal us when we become part of their energy and communication. Trees are natural purifiers. They take old, toxic, polluted air and filter it through their system and release healthy, pure air with renewed and powerful life force. We breath this air in and it heals our lungs and organs. Stress can also do this energetically, just by being in their presence.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill ~ John Muir

It helps to sit under a tree and just meditate. Open, and allow the energy to move through you. Being in the sun, rain and wind amplifies the aura cleaning benefits of trees. Spending time in nature, sunlight and fresh air has been scientifically proven to improve health and emotional well-being.

Being in nature can lower our heart rate and blood pressure, and calm and repair our nervous systems. Tree bathing may also reduce stress hormones, like cortisol which can throw the entire body off balance when under too much stress.

We are also very much affected by scents. The art of aromatherapy can help you change your health and emotional state. Breathing in scents from trees and blossoms from trees have the same affect on us psychologically. Pine, Eucalyptus and Bay are energizing. Orange blossoms uplift the spirit, while Lilacs makes us sentimental and relaxed.

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Forest scents have a strange ability to both relax and energize. Trees emit oils called phytoncides that protect them from disease and insects. These oils benefit everyone around them. They are proven to actually strengthen our immune system.

Forests are also naturally radiation free. In the day and age of radiation emitted by a plethora of technology, and where we are constantly bombarded by unnatural toxins, as well as toxic ideas and negativity, there is nothing like a tree bath to help us start over and to remind us of who we really are.