Introduce Hygge to your life - Cosy days
Introduce Hygge to your life- Cousy days
“A calm, comfortable time with people you love. A complete absence of frustrations, or anything emotionally overwhelming, often enjoyed with good food and drinks, warm blankets and candlelight.”
Winter days just started.. quiet, grey, and cold at first was very agreeable with thoughts. There was a time to clear our minds and to make an order. Several days later, when not a single sunlight in the sky, a feeling of tiredness slowly approached..and winter has just started. With all that great love for silence and snow, for ice cracking sounds under shoes when walking, one can not help but wishing a little sun above. It is irreplaceable but the experience gave us options, how to agree with these conditions and find our best way. There is a hygge approach, invented by people far up on the northern hemisphere, where the night can last for months and cold is there to stay. They lighted houses with pleasant discrete light of candles and lamps, heat their homes, and enjoy this time in a cozy surrounding.
Learning from them, we can introduce some of it to our short winter days, starting from enjoyable winter activities like skiing, hiking, ice-skating to some less active such as art activities-ceramics, calligraphy, photography, origami, sketching, down to the best part of it and the only original to hygge- reading in night, covered with warm blankets while enjoying hot drinks.
Every once in a while we all need time for ourselves. Some more, others less. To be afraid of solitude is to not know yourself. It is an adventurous voyage, worth taking. Reading can take us out of reality, give us another perspective, maybe one we never knew existed, and teach us how to avoid mistakes / recognize opportunities.
So what hygge has to do with it? To live a couple of months with a hint of this lifestyle will bring us the benefits of knowing ourselves so that, when the time comes, and the sun is again above us, opportunities can be taken with joy and recognition.
Nature needs time to stay still and prepare for the incoming sun, growth and activities. So do we.
