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The Finnish Way: Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness through the Power of Sisu - Softcover

Pantzar, Katja

 
9780143132998: The Finnish Way: Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness through the Power of Sisu
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0143132997 ISBN 13: 9780143132998
Verlag: Penguin US, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

An engaging and practical guided tour of the simple and nature-inspired ways that Finns stay happy and healthy--including the powerful concept of sisu, or everyday courage

Forget hygge--it's time to blow out the candles and get out into the world! Journalist Katja Pantzar did just that, taking the huge leap to move to the remote Nordic country of Finland. What she discovered there transformed her body, mind and spirit. In this engaging and practical guide, she shows readers how to embrace the "keep it simple and sensible" daily practices that make Finns one of the happiest populations in the world, year after year.

Topics include:

  • Movement as medicine: How walking, biking and swimming every day are good for what ails us--and best done outside the confines of a gym
  • Natural mood boosters: Cold water swimming, steamy saunas, and other ways to alleviate stress, anxiety, insomnia, and depression
  • Forest therapy: Why there's no substitute for getting out into nature on a regular basis
  • Healthy eating: What the Nordic diet can teach us all about feeding body, mind and soul
  • The gift of sisu: Why Finns embrace a special form of courage, grit and determination as a national virtue - and how anyone can dig deeper to survive and thrive through tough times.

    • If you've ever wondered if there's a better, simpler way to find happiness and good heath, look no further. The Finns have a word for that, and this empowering book shows us how to achieve it.

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    Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

    Katja Pantzar works as a writer, editor and broadcast journalist. Raised in Canada, with stints in the UK and New Zealand, she is currently based in Helsinki, where she swims in the sea almost every day, all year round.

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    Chapter 1

    An Introduction to the Simple and Sensible Lifestyle and Sisu

    During my first few months in Finland, my everyday life undergoes a transformation, a makeover. But it's not an extreme makeover, as each lifestyle change occurs without me really noticing, as some of the changes are part of my new day-to-day routine.

    Instead of working late into the evening as I often did in Toronto, my workday in Helsinki starts around nine a.m. and ends around five p.m. There's a proper lunch-hour break, which just about everyone seems to take at a caf nearby or in the staff canteen that serves up a hot meal the company subsidizes. There are always several dishes to choose from-vegetarian, chicken, fish, or meat-in addition to a plentiful salad bar and an assortment of freshly baked breads.

    Though anyone who has eaten at workplace canteens in Finland would likely laugh at the notion of them resembling the Nordic diet-undeniably it is canteen food made for hundreds of employees-the food on offer does loosely follow the tenets of the Nordic diet. Which is: simple, affordable food that emphasizes local and seasonable products-vegetables, fruits, and berries; whole grains such as oats and rye; and fish, game, and dairy. The dessert on offer is often a piece of fruit or a cranberry whip or quark with blueberries-it is rarely cake or pastries.

    This new routine of taking a proper lunch break also sets me up for changing my eating habits: rather than eating my main meal in the evening, I now have it in the middle of the day-as millions of Scandinavians do. Instead of scarfing down a sandwich over my keyboard as I had previously done, I sit down with my colleagues and eat a proper, fairly balanced meal while we discuss the issues of the day. Rather than spending the day hungry in anticipation of dinner, I'm well fueled.

    Like many of my coworkers, I start riding a bicycle to work every day as I don't have a car. Initially I cycle on a forty-year-old bright blue Jopo, a sturdy Finnish classic with no gears, lent to me by my aunt and uncle. This no-frills bike symbolizes Nordic simplicity and design-a bike doesn't need to have a million gears to move forward.

    In several cities where I've lived, I've ridden (or tried to ride) my bicycle to school or work. But in London, Toronto, and Vancouver, I found it much more difficult to do so because there wasn't always a network of well-marked and maintained bike paths leading to the places I needed to go, and jostling with busy traffic made me nervous. This is changing, though: London, Toronto, and Vancouver have made massive strides in promoting cycling as a form of transport over the past decade.

    In Helsinki, as in the other Nordic capitals, there's a series of marked bike paths throughout the city; often a painted line-one side for pedestrians, the other for cyclists-divides the sidewalk.

    I quickly become seriously hooked on cycling because it's such a practical way to get around and also because it provides me with daily exercise without the extra effort required to go to the gym after a long workday. My six-kilometer pedaling route through woods and city and along the seaside in the fresh air wakes me up in the morning. I start to observe nature and the changing seasons in a way I've not done before. I notice that I sleep better at night, which in turn seems to reduce my levels of anxiety.

    After work, I pedal away the day's stress. I soon realize that on the days I don't bike to work, I miss it and feel lethargic.

    I notice that instead of a coffee break, some of my colleagues take time to go swimming or aqua-jogging-running in the water with a buoyancy belt; they head down to the staff pool for fifteen minutes of exercise and return refreshed, physically and mentally. I decide to try it out and occasionally join them, discovering the benefits of increased energy and concentration.

    These are just a few of the lifes

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    Verlag
    Penguin US
    Erscheinungsdatum
    2018
    Sprache
    Englisch
    ISBN 10 
    0143132997
    ISBN 13 
    9780143132998
    Einband
    Taschenbuch
    Anzahl der Seiten
    272
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