12/17/2025
Across the world, people have always known that time in nature is not a luxury. It is a form of care.
In The Quiet Medicine: Nature-Based Healing Traditions Around the World, featured in the November/December 2025 issue of Energy Magazine – Celebrating Energy Medicine Around the World, Rita Cola Carroll, PhD explores how cultures have long partnered with the natural world to restore balance, calm the nervous system, and strengthen wellbeing.
This feature highlights three grounded, time-tested approaches to nature-based healing. In Japan, Shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing, invites gentle sensory awareness to reduce stress and support physiological regulation. Indigenous North American land-based practices emphasize relationship, ceremony, and belonging as pathways to resilience and healing. In Scandinavia, Friluftsliv encourages daily connection with the outdoors as a way of life, fostering community, steadiness, and emotional ease.
For energy practitioners, these traditions offer a powerful reminder. Nature does not need to be complicated or ceremonial to be effective. Even short, unrushed periods outdoors can support autonomic balance, emotional regulation, and coherence within the biofield.
Whether woven into client sessions, personal self-care, or everyday routines, nature can become a steady and reliable partner in healing work.
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