You want to beat loneliness during quarantine? Here is the state that advises citizens to embrace trees

As reports Lonely Planet, the Icelandic Forest Service (IFS) says that spending at least five minutes a day embracing your halo neighbors is an excellent way to overcome loneliness in quarantine. Snowfalls in East Iceland have been plowed to provide residents with easier access to trees as well as expanded so that the travelers can get out by keeping their distance. IFS even updated its website with photographs of people embracing trees of all shapes and sizes.

The embrace of the trees, according to the East Island forest manager, Professor éorfinsson, produces a sense of relaxation and prepares you to take on any challenge you face. “When you embrace a tree, you feel it first in your fingers then up on your feet up to your chest and finally in your head“, says '%orfinsson.

Apart from the somewhat unusual and perhaps ridiculous side of this suggestion, exposure to trees has shown to promote good health. Trees clean the air of pollutants and reduce stress in people who live nearby. You won't have to wrap your arms around a tree to reap those benefits, but if you don't have anyone else to embrace, then this action won't hurt you at all.

Iceland's national forests have remained open during the COVID-19 crisis, but it is not for many green spaces in the US and other countries of the world. (mental floats)