When one enjoys the warm, colourful autumn, but is also looking forward to winter, enjoying the fun December, can still become rather anxious when cold and snow just don’t appear. This December has in our area been similar to last year’s, warm (10 °C daily on average), even rainy. One then very hardly waits for …
Category: Lifestyle
Quality over quantity – always, with some help from Aesop’s fables
As the year begins, here’s an Aesop’s fable to remind us that quality always beats quantity: A fox belittled a lioness because she never bore more than one cub. “Yes, only one”, she replied, “but a lion.” Biological fact: lionesses usually have between one and six cubs at a time. Most often they give birth …
Fairy symbols
Have you ever heard of these? They are also known as attraction symbols as they are meant to attract the prosperity which they are named after. There is over 200 of them, each symbolising a good prospect of life, each with a different name and shape. Attraction symbols are somewhat keys to energy, values, abilities, skills, …
Dear human, good planets are hard to find
This is not about the second quote we hear too often (which, unfortunately, we must): “There is no planet B.” It’s just thinking about the little things we can do make this life so much better. By life I mean everything in existence. It takes as little as: Be respectful, mindful, aware, friendly, kind, open-minded, …
What if I told you we need to learn how to breathe properly?
This post was inspired by the book Breath by James Nestor. Correct breathing influences the body’s biochemistry, body mass and overall health. Conscious deep breathing allows us to reach our nervous system, thus to control immune response and restore health. How we breathe effects the size and function of our lungs. Improving our breathing directly …
How many times do you do a reality check of your life?
Or in other words – be careful what you wish for. Because your deepest wishes come true. Let’s go through this together: remember what you wished for throughout your life, your strongest wishes from different phases and areas of your life. Browse your memory, even photos and journals if you kept them. If there are …
Blue light from the screens and its phototoxicity
We avoid the sun light in the peak of the days, we make sure we use natural skin care, parabens, mineral oils and titanium dioxide free. Yet we most often do not realise the negative consequences of the light from screens we tend to (or must) spent so much time in front of. Most of …
One year of practicing Wim Hof method and how it has changed my life
This is continuation of the post: 6 months of practicing Wim Hof method. To be sincere, not much has changed since then. I was expecting more and stronger improvements, but there were improvements nonetheless and I’m happy with them. I expect persistence will pay off in a few years, if not sooner. I am much …
January favourites
I expected this month to be good, but it was so much more, so much better! It was a great first month of the year, the plan is to continue this year in the same manner, with improvement! The list follows: 4. The weather 5. Books: Breath by James Nestor, Yoga All-In-One For Dummies 6. …