This is episode 1184.

Welcome to your daily guided meditation.

And welcome to today's episode where you're going to be guided

using a breathing technique to help you.

Inhale the essence of the forest.

I encourage you to do this meditation outside.

And you get extra bonus points.

If you do the meditation in a forest among tall trees.

If you can't make it outside, at least open a window where you are

as you do the meditation

to still connect yourself with the outdoors.

I'm excited to share this technique with you because it's a technique you can do,

whether or not you are in the forest. You could do it any time you're in a serene setting. And this is how it goes.

As you inhale and exhale through your nose, this will keep your breath soft.

You will breathe in or bathe with the forest.

And what that means is to breathe in the

forest.

all kinds of quasi-pharmaceuticals.

A Japanese researcher was able to determine that there are airborne

antifungal and antibacterial compounds called phytonsides. I hope that's how you pronounce that.

Inhaling these seems to boost a type of white blood cells that attack tumors and viruses.

And they discovered that people who live in heavily forested areas of Japan,

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