Fifteen Minutes Among Trees

Forest bathing at lunchtime scale

Shinrin-yoku, scaled to a workday

Find the greenest place within walking distance and be in it slowly. This is not a walk with a destination. Stand near a tree. Listen for layers of sound. Breathe like there's no queue for the air. Fifteen minutes of this changes what the rest of the day is made of.

1. 1Find trees: a park, a reserve, a leafy street
2. 2Slow to half pace once you arrive
3. 3Use every sense deliberately, one at a time
4. 4Stand still for the last two minutes