Ready to bundle up in your favourite oversized sweater, unplug, and unwind using a Danish method called Hygge, pronounced hoo∙ga? Not quiet sure what that is, don’t worry once explained this Danish remedy of embracing cozy candle lite, pampering, home time will have you racing home just to slow down! With today’s day and age we’re constantly on the go and are subjected to so much outer stimulation by the time we get home all we crave is to turn off. Yet most of us are so wired that turning off seems near impossible. Thankfully Hygge has been shared by the worlds happiest people, the Scandinavians of course! Just in time for the colder season here in North America to help bring that over active mind, and body back into balance.
Hygge not just influencing how we decorate our homes but being more of a way of well-being, invites you to slow down in the comfort of your home. Its beautiful mixture of pleasure, a form of meditation, unplugging, and rekindling with oneself, family or friends. Subjected to the similar winter season as the nordics, why not get in the habit of embracing our cooler seasons with more tranquility, and decompressing. Focusing less on what we don’t have and more on embracing and working with what we do. Now not to say this state of well-being can’t be helped with a little love by adding a few things to help get yourself in the Hygge spirit. First and foremost let’s set the mood right at home to start unwinding. Bringing the mind back to whats going on at home and less on what the outside world is projecting on us. So ladies time to turn off those laptops, phones, tablets and bring all your focus on your inner world.
Nothing says warm and cozy like the soft flicker of a natural wood fire. Now if you're lucky enough to have a fireplace in your home, all you’ll have to do is dust off that fireplace ledge, pop a few logs on and automatically settle into your couch and listen to the soft crackle of wood burning. To those who don’t have the luxury of a fire place we’re onto the next best thing candles! Still wanting that cracking fire wood sound? Try a wood wick candle by HARLOW Fire collection, these candles will have you mesmerized with scents like Fall Forever adding the soft aroma of vanilla, orange, nutmeg, and cinnamon to your home!
As soft light flickers dance on your walls, its time to get you feeling gorgeous and start pampering. If we aren’t taking care of ourselves first by giving the self care and love towards our own being, how are we suppose to share the same kind of love and care into all that we do, say, and partake in. Keeping to the Nordic inspiration towards simple and naturist lets treat our skin to the pleasure of a certified herbal Clarifying Mask by Pura Botanicales. With only the best natural, organic ingredients for your face and made locally in Canada. Your face will be dissolving and felling luxiouious in no time. Allowing that mask to fully soak away any troubles, grabbing your favorite mug lets complete your Hygge way of being by warming your body up with a warm cup of tea. Calming the body and bringing the nervous system back into a parasympathetic state. Try Tea Leaves who only look for the finest tea, herbs and flowers to blend ordinary into extraordinary.
Lastly if you still feel the need to stimulate the mind and are uncomfortable sitting in the quietness of your new found Hygge experience. Feeling that known creep to reach towards your phone, instead grab a book that you’ve been meaning or craving to read. Don’t have one then? Why not get inspired and engaged by Sophia Amoruso and her book The Girlboss Workbook: An Interactive Journal for Winning at Life. A graphic work book that’s interactive and inspiring by a woman who through her trail and errors in not only business but all of lifes trails encourages you to grab life by the horns and become your very own #GIRLBOSS. Allowing you to discover, scribble and fill in the blanks to what makes you unique, odd, and perfect all at once to live your dream life!
Hopefully this has got you inspried to give Hygge on for a try this coming season. Embracing more of a calm, homey, natural, pampering, unplugged and guilt free reason to stay at home. Whether practicing this on your own or inviting close friends and family to partake in one of the scandanavians little screct’s to happiness.
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HARLOW-Fire Candles scent Fall Forever $30.00 https://harlowskinco.com/collections/fire
#GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso paperback $15.22- https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/
Pura Botanicals- Overnight Garden Mask $76.00 https://purabotanicals.ca/products/overnight-garden-mask
Tea Leaves- Tender Loving Care Kit $3.80- www.tealeaves.com/tender-loving-care-kit