Forest bathing as a mindful tourism practice

SPECIAL COMMUNICATION Mindful Practice

REFLECTION AND SELF-AWAREness help physicians to examine belief systems and values, deal with strong feelings, make difficult decisions, and resolve interpersonal conflict. Organized activities to foster self-awareness are part of many family medicine residency programs and some other residency and medical school curricula. Exemplary physicians seem to have a capacity for critical self-reflecti...

Is Mindful Practice Our Ethical Responsibility as Anesthesiologists?

Mindful medical practice: just another fad?

A thoughtful colleague pointed out that over the past 50 years we have experimented with many different ways to humanize medicine. Recently, a few of our attempts have included explicitly promoting empathy,1 inculcating cultural competence,2 and offering courses on narrative medicine.3 This is not to say that any of these approaches have failed, but we are still searching—and recent evidence su...

Relief of Chronic Posterior Neck Pain Depending on the Type of Forest Therapy: Comparison of the Therapeutic Effect of Forest Bathing Alone Versus Forest Bathing With Exercise

OBJECTIVE To compare the pain-reducing effect of forest bathing alone versus forest bathing in combination with stretching and strengthening exercises in patients with chronic posterior neck pain. METHODS Sixty-four subjects with posterior neck pain that had lasted more than 3 months were enrolled. They were randomly divided into a forest bathing alone (FBA) group and a forest bathing with ex...

The forest as a classroom: preparing for mental health practice

BACKGROUND Positive effects of physical activity, health promotion and disease prevention, in treatment of mental illnesses are well documented. Mental health practice for nursing students highlights the important connection between physical activities and mental health. This study aims to examine the outcome from nursing students' participation using The forest as a classroom. Students' collab...