New year doesn't have to mean "new you" just a reset. A month to rest and recover after the hustle bustle. A hibernation of self-care in the winter month. Checkout the following ideas for resetting your life for better mental and physical well-being.
7 Japanese Concepts to Reset your Life.
1. Finding Ikigai
Discover your “reason for being” by aligning what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for.
2. Implement Kaizen
Make small, continuous improvements in your life, like spending five minutes each day learning a new skill.
Its core principles involve constant change for the better, waste reduction, proactive problem-solving, creativity, and to identify and implement improvements.
3. Eating with chiju-Sansai
Mindful eating for balance and health. Food is consumed slowly and mindfully in small portions. This practice of Ichiju-Sansai helps us to savor the food truly and focus on the quality that finally helps us to get the nutritional value of the food easily.
4. Relaxing Through Shinrin-Yoku
Forest Bathing is a ritual in Japan so much that even Japanese doctors recommend it to their patients to escape the hectic urban life. Forest bathing is a simple exercise where we can go to our nearby forest or even a park and sit between the trees. No phone, no screens nothing to do. Just sit or stand between those landscaped areas and feel the presence of the forest. Take a moment to appreciate the surroundings, feel the ground and the grass you are standing on, touch the trees bark, feel the essence. Listen to the birds chirping and the sun shining through the leaves, take a breath and bask in nature.
5. Cleanliness with Seiketsu
We all tend to live in a slump and keep our homes messed. Japanese understood that this is affecting our mental and physical health. The condition of the places where we live in for most of the time, is a direct reflection of our brain and vice versa.
6. Practice Omoiyari
The concept of empathy and consideration for others is known as Omoiyari. Japanese people have the ability to care on a deeper level for others. It simply means to understand the needs of others and provide it to them before they even ask, without expecting reward, a blend of putting yourself in someone else's shoes and taking considerate action.
7. Learn Shikata ga nai
This is the cultural acceptance of unavoidable situations to find peace, redirect energy, and move forward rather than dwelling on the uncontrollable. It's a concept of stoic resilience, encouraging people to let go of what they can't change, find courage in vulnerability, and focus on productive action or appreciation for what remains, rather than succumbing to helplessness or complaint.
The Hug Box offers thoughtful gifts, a better alternative to traditional flowers or the generic plastic-wrap gift baskets. Send them something sustainable and they can use to feel better.
Here are 5 reset gift ideas:
1. Immunity and Recovery Support. Something special for someone who needs extra self-care to aid their health. Elderly, college students, friends, employee - someone who needs relief. The perfect gifts for this are our Get Well gifts. Filled with local small business products like elderberry teas, essential oils, magnesium salt soaks, eucalyptus steamers.
2. Heart and Soul Healing. Sometimes the holidays or end of the year bring on some difficult memories or emotions and the need for more healing. With our Thinking of You and Sympathy gifts you can provide them with warmth and support. Our gift boxes contain cozy socks, journals and notepads for clearing the mind, candles for a moment to reflect and other amazing products made with natural ingredients. And all made by locally woman-owned and family-owned small businesses.
3. Self-care Reset. For anytime. Send someone or yourself a little surprise and delight. A gift filled with practical but luxury products you or that special someone may not splurge on. Checkout our Self-care gifts. Think of it as a mini spa day with salt soaks, lip nourishment, candles for calming, body oils for soothing.
4. Appreciation and Well-being. Show someone on your team or a client that you appreciate all that they do or mean to you and that you value their well-being too. Don't send them more mass produced cheap swag that they may just toss in the trash. Send them a sustainable gift with products made locally and with natural ingredients. Here are some meaningful gifts to chose from that they will love.
5. Give-back gifting. We love to partner with local artisans but we also partner with non-profits. One that we love that is a big part of the HUg Boxes is Thistle Farms. If you love to give gifts that give back in many ways, shop our Hug Boxes that contain Thistle Farm products.
Or Build a Gift Box to suit your budget and make even more personal. Maybe a friend just broke up with her boyfriend, or a colleague had major surgery or your cousin lost her dog. Any Hug Box will lift their spirits, but you may want to make it even more specific to their tastes or needs. Click here to start building your gift box. They are all gifts that aid in self-care.
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