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    Forest Bathing

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    Rick LeBrasseur
    This document summarizes a person's experience of "forest bathing" in Finland. They rented a remote forest cabin with no amenities to test how spending time immersed in the forest affected their health and relaxation. They found that being in the forest lowered their heart rate, improved the quality of their sleep, and increased their overall feeling of relaxation and well-being. Key activities included walking, swimming, cooking outdoors, listening to forest sounds, and spending time in the sauna. The forest environment helped reduce stress and boost mental and physical health.

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    This document summarizes a person's experience of "forest bathing" in Finland. They rented a remote forest cabin with no amenities to test how spending time immersed in the forest affected their health and relaxation. They found that being in the forest lowered their heart rate, improved the quality of their sleep, and increased their overall feeling of relaxation and well-being. Key activities included walking, swimming, cooking outdoors, listening to forest sounds, and spending time in the sauna. The forest environment helped reduce stress and boost mental and physical health.

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    Rick's technology detox in a deep forest of Finland

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    This document summarizes a person's experience of "forest bathing" in Finland. They rented a remote forest cabin with no amenities to test how spending time immersed in the forest affected their health and relaxation. They found that being in the forest lowered their heart rate, improved the quality of their sleep, and increased their overall feeling of relaxation and well-being. Key activities included walking, swimming, cooking outdoors, listening to forest sounds, and spending time in the sauna. The forest environment helped reduce stress and boost mental and physical health.

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    Forest Bathing

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    Rick LeBrasseur
    This document summarizes a person's experience of "forest bathing" in Finland. They rented a remote forest cabin with no amenities to test how spending time immersed in the forest affected their health and relaxation. They found that being in the forest lowered their heart rate, improved the quality of their sleep, and increased their overall feeling of relaxation and well-being. Key activities included walking, swimming, cooking outdoors, listening to forest sounds, and spending time in the sauna. The forest environment helped reduce stress and boost mental and physical health.

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    The passage discusses the practice of forest bathing in Finland and some of the mental and physical benefits it can provide such as reduced stress and improved health and well-being.

    The author rented a remote forest cabin with no running water or internet and engaged in activities like walking, swimming, cooking, canoeing, reading, listening, sleeping, thinking, relaxing, writing, smelling, and saunaing.

    The author intended to use pre- and post-results from a neural headset but instead had to rely on more analog metrics like heart rate, quality of sleep, meditation efficacy, and subjective measures.

    Technology Cleansing

    FOREST

    BATHING
    IN
    FINLAND
    Revitalization in Nature
    Technocentricity

    mental
    detox
    Scandanavia and the Finns in
    particular have a distinct term for
    this - METSÄKYLPY SUOMI or Forest
    Bathing.

    The practice of spending time in a


    forest has been scientifically proven
    to improve health. 'Forest bathing'
    lowers heart rate and blood
    pressure, reduces stress, boosts the
    immune system, and improves the
    overall feeling of well-being.
    RELAX
    I have always found it
    difficult to relax throughout
    my life. Given my recent
    research and the current
    trend to recognise the
    benefits of being in nature, I
    purposefully set out to test
    this on my visit to Finland.

    I rented a forest cabin in


    Nuuksio National Park 60
    minutes from Helsinki. There
    was minimal electricity for a
    hotplate and microwave. No
    internet, no running water,
    no internal plumbing, an
    outhouse, a fireplace, sauna,
    a woodshed, and a canoe for
    near a lake. No neighbours,
    3km dirt road, no data
    reception.
    My study was supposed to
    MEASURE
    use pre- and post-results
    from a neural headset, but
    the research grant didn’t
    materialize in time ;-)

    Thus, I was forced to use


    more analog metrics : heart
    rate, quality of sleep,
    meditation efficacy, and
    other subjective measures.

    Specifically, how did I feel


    after two nites and three
    days immersed in a Finnish
    forest…
    – METSÄ –
    – FOREST –
    The forest will accept us as we are. It
    doesn’t require or demand anything
    from us. We are all equal in the forest
    – as we should be everywhere else. If
    you feel like it, you can cry, laugh, be
    quiet, have a conversation, dance, hug
    the trees, or lay on a moss carpet.
    PLACE
    The qualities of a Finnish
    forest are multi-layered. This
    region included mostly
    Ehtrophjic forests (tuoreet
    kangasmetsät) considered
    moist and herb-rich.
    Everyman’s Rights in Finland are also obligations to
    act responsibly. The forest is also the source of
    thousands of stories, tales and inspirations.
    reindeer lichen
    I walked on their dense
    carpets, laid in their soft
    blankets, and listened to the
    rich sounds of the forest.
    NO SHOES
    I heard many new sounds and experienced
    many new smells - Finnish poplar burning and
    crackling, owls and other birds, lapping lakes of
    southern lapland, bright flowers, and others I
    am not familiar to.

    Walking Swimming Cooking

    Looking Canoeing Reading

    Listening Sleeping Thinking

    Breathing Relaxing Writing

    Smelling Saunaing …
    BEING
    … in the landscape

    … with the landscape

    … of the landscape

    … for the landscape


    The sun never sets.
    The late night sun
    is a deep orange hazy glow.
    Dramatic.

    2:45 am
    Analysis

    REsuLTS
    • Lowest HR (HeartRate) recorded
    lying on Reindeer Moss in early
    evening.

    • Highest HR recorded before


    entering lake (yes, Rick is afraid of
    water and drowning…).

    • Overall reduction in HR by 3 BPM


    from entering to leaving (3 days).

    • Improved sleeping (more REM).

    • Overall relaxation and positivity.

    • Increased appreciation for family


    and friends.

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