{"id":329798,"date":"2026-03-05T06:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/329798\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T06:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:38:09","slug":"forest-bathing-reduce-stress-and-burnout-improve-sleep-and-boost-well-being-with-the-quiet-magic-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/329798\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest bathing: Reduce stress and burnout, improve sleep and boost well-being with the quiet magic of nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nNow that Spring has finally sprung, why not go outdoors and try the Japanese practice of \u2018shinrin\u2019 or forest bathing \u2013 but it\u2019s not just a matter of walking in the woods. Here\u2019s what you need to know\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Forest bathing is more than just a walk in the woods. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ttyImages_514411951.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Forest bathing is more than just a walk in the woods. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Feeling stressed? Sad? Overwhelmed? Disconnected? Fed up? Find a forest, and spend a few hours absorbing its quiet magic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This doesn\u2019t just work in fairy tales, but in real life too \u2013 yet in our era of hyper-connected urbanisation, we have become increasingly disconnected from nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that Spring has finally sprung, why not go outdoors and try the Japanese practice of \u2018shinrin\u2019 or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,898,29782,128197,128198],"class_list":["post-329798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-service-journalism","tag-shp","tag-signature-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}