{"id":3787,"date":"2021-03-01T08:30:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T06:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/contattoblogs.timslatter.co.za\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2021-03-01T08:30:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T06:30:14","slug":"its-hue-guh-not-hoo-gah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zcp.co.za\/main\/its-hue-guh-not-hoo-gah\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Hue-Guh, not Hoo-Gah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hygge (pronounced hue-guh, not hoo-gah) is a Danish word used when acknowledging a feeling or moment as cosy, charming or special. This can happen whether alone or with friends, at home or out, ordinary or extraordinary. It\u2019s about how the event makes you feel, not the event itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Danish cookies, cheese and pastries to their culture of simplicity, politeness, and equality &#8211; they should have a pretty good sense of how cosy-charming-special truly feels! And, when life is handing us bagfuls of lemons, it\u2019s encouraging to know that there\u2019s a word for how we can adopt a strategy to cope; hygge is a fresh, yet traditionally sound, system to consider.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Danish, it means \u201cto give courage, comfort, joy\u201d, but in the Old Norse, it stems from the words used for \u201cto think\u201d and \u201chug\u201d. It\u2019s an active word that quite literally wants to embrace. It\u2019s a word that affirms everything will be okay, that we\u2019ve got this, and that we\u2019re going to make it through to the other side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hygge helps us find and acknowledge comfort, contentment and wellbeing in the current moment, and not feel like it\u2019s an unobtainable future feeling. It\u2019s wise to consider this when we look at our life plans. Planning can be very future-focussed and, if we\u2019re not careful, transport us out of the present and into a future that may or may not happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But joy is found in the present; it\u2019s not something that we work towards. Joy is something we choose for today. We shouldn\u2019t be planning to be joyful; we should be planning from a place of joy. This is how we can muster up the courage to be present and not panic about tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Courage is resilience put to the test. We\u2019re living in an age that is calling us to be more courageous and more vulnerable. The awareness that courage and vulnerability go hand-in-hand is so new that many large businesses are still restructuring their leadership cultures. They hope to connect on a more engaging level with their teams and find more fulfilment, more hygge, in their corporate culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hygge reminds us that it\u2019s okay to wear track pants today, to stay in those comfy old socks and work from the couch. It reminds us that comfort foods (those cookies, cheeses, pastries and pasta\u2026) help heal our emotional and mental states. It can be as simple as lighting a candle and surrounding ourselves with people and things we love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We don\u2019t have to swim upstream all day, every day. We need to take rest days, personal health days and pamper days. It\u2019s about the attitude of comfort, not the cost of conformity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Give yourself a hug &#8211; take a Hygge-Day.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hygge (pronounced hue-guh, not hoo-gah) is a Danish word used when acknowledging a feeling or moment as cosy, charming or special. This can happen whether alone or with friends, at home or out, ordinary or extraordinary. It\u2019s about how the event makes you feel, not the event itself. 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