Brown Motion

LOL. SMH. ROFL. ETC. The western ideas of pursuing something intangible has been packaged and sold the world over.  Not unlike some religion trying to sell its ideology to gain access to virgins or whatever suits your lifestyle. The very idea of happiness and its pursuit came to a grinding halt with Covid. It seems within weeks the pursuer became the pursued. With the pandemic the stark statistics of where the bug spread shows lazier, poorer nations getting ahead of the curve or parabola or whatever shape we are calling it.  These guys knew they had a crappy healthcare apparatus and could never cope so they just told their junta to take an extended break - not alike what they are used to except now on steroids... HOLIDAY!  More tea please. Compare and contrast to the western or what are mostly thought of as advanced and richer nations - it showed their economies faltered.  Underlying thesis for that was pure hubris. A simple misplaced belief that we hav...

Translated to English is Forest Bathing.  No bathing suit needed.  It is literally a walk in the woods.  In the last century the Japanese discovered that to get away from the grind of the big city and rejuvenate oneself they could take a walk among the trees.  This has proven to be  preventive approach to health care and healing in Japanese medicine. CNN recently showcased a series on longevity and living well hosted by their on staff Doc (of Indian origin) called Sanjay Gupta.  He took a trip to Japan to find out how their citizens lived long years for the most part and discover why city dwellers seemed lonely and overworked.  The latter is attributed their work ethic and surviving through post WWII times to build a better life.  Unfortunately overwork is today a leading cause of stress in their society. His findings lead him to discover this old technique of getting immersed in nature to solve the problems of modern society aka st...