The term used to heal this person is called shinrin yoku, in which shinrin means forest and yoku means snow. In English, this term is directly translated as forest bathing or forest bathing in Vietnamese.
The concept of "bathing" brings coolness, cleansing, and renewing the body and soul. However, the material used for bathing is not water but clean air, filled with the natural nutrients of the forest. Green color, the sound of the wind charging through the leaves, the oxygen released from the plant and stream will cover people, encroaching on all senses from the eyes, nose, ears, mouth, and tongue to cover and immerse themselves in the fresh nature.
As Japanese doctor Qing Li, author of the book forest Bathing: How to find Health and Happiness from Trees, wrote: Modern urban people spend up to 93% of their time living in a closed, cramped space. This leads to a disorder of "natural vitamin deficiency", leading to negative emotions about life. To treat this, go swimming in the forest for a few hours or a few days.
Dr. Li's research results also show that forest bathing helps improve sleep quality, mood, concentration and stress levels, factors that cause anxiety, depression, insomnia, high blood pressure, muscle tension, weak immune response...
That is not super high or strange. Remember the feeling when our bare feet were released from our shoes to be placed on the green grass that now winds through the tearing stream in the middle of the forest, trampled on smooth, smooth stones. Right from the initial contact, we feel filled with free enjoyment.
When immersing ourselves in the forest space with all senses, we suddenly see the surgical movements of nature gently remove from the body the many diseases and wounds full of tension, resentment, pain, fatigue, depression, and anxiety. Those things persistently erode the vitality and joy of people in every moment.
Now, step by step traveling in the old forest, we can hear the crowing of birds, the roar of leaves in high places or under black ground when the wind blows through; we can see the green trees roaring, refining the rays of the sun into a transparent, unprecedented piece of joy.
Just swim in that "forest water", inhale the fresh air in your chest, so that your fingers can touch the green moss carpet, as soft as velvet or the roots of the ruoi cay day du day du, then pick up a newly fallen yellow leaf or a flower branch to greet affectionately.
Taking a few small steps, I saw myself standing next to the old trees giving off the aroma of essential oils and wood with living plastic. Squeeze your feet gently onto the cover, self-clearing the forest with the scent of the night's mist and the rotten leaves, to absorb the meaning of the city- suburbs- yet-to-be-nothing.
The relaxed and free steps in the pure space help relieve all worries and pain in the body and soul. No phone signal or 4G reaches the forest's shelter to tie us up. Only human instincts are awakened to heal themselves.
In Vietnam, there is no shortage of places to swim in the forest. The dreamy pine forests in Mang Den (Kontum), Pleiku (Gia Lai) or Da Lat (Lam Dong) provide those who bathe in the forest with a space to enhance the aroma of pine resin - a material with the ability to clean the space and the body very strongly.
Walking in the pine forests is a very memorable experience for those who love the dry space, the surface of the forest is smooth because it is covered with pine leaves. This place is often dry, filled with a warm, spicy, fresh and refreshing scent of the scent of trees, plastic and rosemary.
Immersing yourself in a pine forest on the "pink-lipped red book" of Nui Street, especially in the middle of the afternoon and late afternoon, when the sunlight is hot enough to release the scent of pine resin, essential oils in the leaves and pine fruit, soaking in the scent of purity, freedom, wildness and very relaxation.
Also in Lam Dong, running through the roof of Lam Vien plateau, there is a forest that is very suitable for those who love a space with high humidity to swim in, which is the mountain topun forest in Hon Giao, belonging to the Bidoup Nui Ba national tropical garden. Northwest forests only consist of low-lying trees, growing with a higher density than other types of forests.
This forest with heavy rainfall and high humidity all year round has created a majestic, diverse moss complex of more than 100 types of moss with all kinds of moss such as moss, real moss and forest moss. The moss carpet here has created a strange, deserted, beautiful space like in a myth, to the point of being called a moss forest.
Taking a walk in the forest here, you will admire the sunlight reaching over the leaves, shining down on the moss carpets hundreds of meters wide that are still covered in night fog, creating a sparkling scene because each drop of a small hook receives light and then spreads a spark that overwhelms people's eyes and takes their souls.
If you want to swim in the wild, desolate forests like in the pink desert, visit the forests in Northwest Vietnam. The forest at the foot of the sacred Fansipan peak (Lao Cai), the cattle forest passing through the Tay Con Linh (Ha Giang) desert, the forest along the Ky Quan San peak (Lai Chau), the dense forest of ancient tea trees growing in the sea of clouds on the top of Ta Xua (Yen Bai), the low-lying forest with leaves at Mau Son peak...
The trekking routes only follow the route of the locals, which is both bumpy, winding and steep because they all point to the sky high, which can discourage those with weak hearts. However, the rewards for these forest bathing spots are endless.
When overcoming the urgent breathing of "no tomorrow", overcoming the dizzying breeze of the frontal disorder, overcoming the pain of tired knees, will be rewarded with a parody of the fairy god scene.
These are primeval forests filled with energy, just need to touch the roots of hundreds of years to immediately regain that energy, making people cry out for happiness.
That was the moment of stepping out of the mysterious old forest, setting foot in the vastness, overcoming everything, as the wind and day filled the ceiling with white clouds like a dream. That is the feeling of overcoming one's unforgettable fear and the freshness of a newly reborn soul.
