Art Bathing

My soul needed to be surrounded by beauty

Hello, Gorgeous!

Earlier this week I had an extremely stressful appointment. Instead of spending the morning fretting, I played hooky for a few hours at one of my favorite haunts, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

Forest bathing’s lesser known cousin

To begin with, art bathing isn’t an actual thing. I just made it up. But it should be a thing.

Let’s discuss forest bathing first.

In the 1980s the Japanese created, or at least publized the concept of shinrin-yoku, or art and science of how trees can promote health and happiness. In more recent years, forest bathing —spending time in nature to derive a healing effect— has become much more popular. Dr. Qing Li, a a professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo is the world's foremost expert in forest medicine.

In his book Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness, Dr. Li said, that the benefit of being around trees is “simply being in nature, connecting with it through our sense of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch." …