The Life-Changing Practice of Forest Healing
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
4.8 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Join Gregory Ripley and me as we dive into the balance of ego, the influence of social media, and the importance of silence in discovering our true selves. Explore the practice of forest bathing, its benefits for mental and physical health, and its roots in Japanese tradition. Gregory shares wisdom from his book, ‘’The Hundred Remedies of the Tao: Spiritual Wisdom for Interesting Times’’ and we discuss transformative nature immersion. Learn how conscious communication and calming the nervous system can promote healing. Visit our podcast page for episode notes, Gregory's work, and more resources.
0:00 - Introduction of the Guest
1:00 - Self-Aggrandizement and Ego
3:50 - Influence of Social Media
6:30 - The Value of Silence
9:20 - Discomfort with Silence
12:00 - Introduction to Forest Bathing
15:00 - Guiding Nature Immersion
18:00 - Nature as a Life Metaphor
21:00 - Importance of Stillness
23:45 - Conscious Communication
26:00 - Closing and Invitation
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the space between. Today with Gregory Ripley, |
| 0:08.6 | we talk about ways to use the Tao to enhance your life. Remedies for interesting times, and they are |
| 0:17.7 | certainly interesting times. That's one piece of the podcast. |
| 0:21.5 | But what really piqued my interest with Gregory is forest bathing. |
| 0:26.0 | Forest bathing is something that I've been hearing a lot about. |
| 0:29.0 | I had, you know, I could sort of intuit what it meant, but really didn't fully understand |
| 0:33.8 | exactly what it meant and how you could begin to incorporate forest bathing or just |
| 0:39.8 | really being intentional about how you are in nature in your everyday life. So we talk about both |
| 0:46.9 | the Tao and forest bathing and how these pieces beautifully weave together to help you live a more |
| 0:53.6 | meaningful and connected life. |
| 0:55.2 | I know you'll love today's episode. |
| 0:57.1 | So here is my episode with Gregory. |
| 1:05.2 | Welcome, Gregory. |
| 1:08.9 | Yeah, thanks for having me. |
| 1:10.1 | I want to start with what it means to be a Taoist priest because you are that. |
| 1:15.6 | So let's kind of lay the foundation for what that all means. |
| 1:18.6 | Yeah, it gets a little complicated. |
| 1:21.6 | It's a little bit different than, I mean, it is different and it's not so different at the same time as what we think of in |
| 1:29.3 | Western terms with Western religions as far as, you know, a lot of people are Christians |
| 1:33.8 | just because that's what they follow and they believe they may or may not have ever been |
| 1:38.2 | like baptized or christened or anything like that. |
| 1:42.1 | And in China, you've always had Taoist believers that were like that as well. |
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