It seems to me that a lot of people who feel stuck in their job and want to escape to a better time, like the manufactured 50s, should try hygge before completely upending their life.
Hygge is often about informal time together with family, close friends, or by yourself. Typically, the setting is at home or another quiet location, or perhaps a picnic during the summer months.
It's a form of self-care and mindfulness without consumerist meddling.
#Hygge #rest #selfcare #tradwife
Archiv: Hej, Hej & Hygge. Das lief im Juli 2023. https://www.sports-insider.de/hej-hej-hygge-das-lief-im-juli-2023-50136/ #Dachzeltnomade #Camping #adidasRunnersCityNight #Dänemark #Laufjunkies #CityNight #Kopenhagen #Laufinfluencer #Lindau #Bikepacking #Brioche #Köttbullar #Dachzelt #Laufblogger #Fitnessblogger #Hygge #Golfblogger #Billund #Golfen #Laufleidenschaft #Joggen #LegoHouse #Bodensee #Laufliebe #Hyggelig #Fitnessblog #Fitnessinfluencer #Halbmarathon #ARCN #Berlin #Golf #FaxeKondi #Golfblog #Lego #Laufblog
The best with knitting on sondag!
#knit #kat #strikning #hygge #tricot #SilentSunday #knitting
The Danish Home Lighting Trend That Can Improve Your Mental Health
By Ana Morales
February 27, 2025
"[W]hile reading The Little Book of #Hygge, by Meik Wiking, I discovered that the Danes are also very particular when it comes to lighting—and they even have a very refined technique to using it in their homes. For the Danish, it’s something bordering on an obsession. All this stems from, according to Wiking, 'the relative lack of contact with natural light from October to March'—that is, during the long, dark winters of northern Europe."
https://www.vogue.com/article/danish-neurolighting-trend-hygge?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/gz9qo
#Lighting #NaturalLight #Winter #SolarPunkSunday #Danes #Neurolighting
Wenn die Welt chaotisch ist ,sind solche Alltäglichkeiten wie Brot backen(ohne Backmischung) für mich, die seit Jahren unter ner Angststörung leidet, ganz wichtig. Das beruhigt, lenkt den Fokus ins Hier und Jetzt, spricht alle Sinne an und ist gut für die Liebe. Die geht ja bekanntlich durch den Magen. Mein Liebster nennt das immer " Franzis Hexenbrot" weil eben mit Liebe und guten Gedanken gebacken . Das ist auch eine Form von Magie #brotbacken #brotliebe #slowlife #slowfood #hygge #hyggelife
#Hygge is integral to my pagan practice. I write about it in several of my novels - which are my activism - as well as living it in my daily life. My version of hygge is tied with the philosophy that to be a #witch is to be political. I can't be comfortable and content when a tyrannical regime is deliberately harming innocent people. So I live with the aim of hygge, and can achieve it in small comfortable ways in my home and heart while maintaining it as a target in the wider world.
#Danes offer to buy #California to spite #Trump’s #Greenland aims: ‘We’ll bring #hygge to Hollywood’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/denmark-california-greenland-california?CMP=share_btn_url
I woke up this morning feeling kinda cruddy & with a terrible migraine, but I took my meds, made some tea, & I just put a small pot of my "holiday potpourri*" on the stove, have the lights turned down/off but for the tree, and am just kinda chilling here enjoying the hygge.
*(I use a rough approximation of Scent # 1 from here: https://www.theyummylife.com/Natural_Room_Scents - I save orange and mandarin peels to use instead of actual full oranges)
Danish children television is amazing.
Today we're watching Kaj & Andrea. About a rather dumb green frog and sensible parrot friend.
For some reason Kaj is cosplaying as human baby eating popcorn while pooping, he ends up in a bouncy chair with a diaper on his head.
@macpsych I, on the other hand, love this feeling. #HoodieWeather #Hygge
Da jeg boede i #KBH, tog jeg hver uge til et #folkekøkken på #Nørrebro, hvor nogle skønne frivillige lavede vegetarisk mad med råvare de fik gratis fra supermarkeder, der vil ellers blive smidt ud. Det kostede 25kr og det var sindssygt lækkert og hyggeligt.
Fast forward til #Aarhus + 0 netværk = hjælp 
Fellow aarhusianer: kender I en folkekøkken med det samme koncept? Jeg har læst om #Folkestedet, men det er ikke liiige det, jeg leder efter.
Tak 
Hykettääkö?
"Leppästä viehättää lajissa tanskalainen, vaikeasti suomen kielelle kääntyvä hyvän olon kotoisa tunnelma eli hygge."
Well, well, well... turns out #Denmark is not the special #hygge superpower as the tourist brochures and big-candle make it out to be!
Below the results from the scientifically voxpop polls. About a 100 people participated so that is catstistically sound.
Do you candle? Well, not daily, and for Danes at a rate statistically level with the rest of the world.
Hi #mastodon. Do you light candles in your home? Maybe even many times a week?
(Danes please reply to this questionnaire instead: https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/112891138538108147)
update: results at https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/112931030226099039
Hej #dansk #mastodon. Tænder du et levende lys i dit hjem flere gange om ugen?
Spørger som Bolius siger, at 6 ud af 10 danskere gør. Hovedsageligt kvinder.
Non-Danes: please answer this one instead https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/112891214021071774
update: results at https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/112931030226099039
