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What Is Mindful Walking Meditation and How Can It Impact Your Life?
By Jeremy Sutton, Ph.D. — 2020
The evocatively named forest bathing (or shinrin-yoku) surfaced in Japan in the 1980s as both a treatment for burned-out technology workers and a way to reconnect the population with the country’s extensive network of forests.
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