According to David Strayer, a professor of cognition and neural science at the University of Utah who specializes in attention and studies nature’s effects on focus, uitwaaien’s therapeutic effects align with attention restoration theory.

Uitwaaien is one of several foreign concepts that have garnered attention in the United States recently.

“It’s an old saying: ‘I’ve gotta get uitwaaien.’

Like all lifestyles, uitwaaien has its casual partakers and more extreme devotees.

There is no easy English translation, but the Dutch word uitwaaien refers to spending time in wild, windy weather – usually by going for a walk or a bike ride.