I can tell that I’m overdoing it and getting my “work / life balance” wrong when I start to crave escapism. I usually end up looking at really isolated Photo Spheres on Google Earth, checking the release date for The Book of Dust (again), and playing Playstation. Read more…
This Spring there was a flurry of articles getting excited about shinrin-yoku, the Japanese practice of “forest bathing” – relaxing in woodland.
The concept of forest bathing and other nature therapies is that we enter the environment in a stressed state (due to urban life and technology), experience the restorative effects of nature, and that this has some sort of preventive medical effect. Read more…