Coined in the early 1980s, the term 'forest bathing,' or Shinrin-yoku in Japanese, can also be translated as 'taking in the forest atmosphere.' Many of us have felt the benefits of being 'bathed' in the sensory experience of the woods.
At every stop, we asked them to fill out a survey that was made up of validated psychological scales to measure anxiety, calmness, perceived restorativeness, mental demand and positive and negative affects.
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