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Ikigai
The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
Okinawa, Japan
Ikigai (þöƒÒüìþö▓µûÉ) is the reason you wake up in the morning. It lives at the meeting point of what you love, what you are good at, what the world n…
Enter the worldLongevity
You will probably die. The next forty years of habits decide when, and how.
Attia · Sinclair · Buettner · Walker · Longo · Modern synthesis
Longevity is not a hack. It is the unforgiving compound interest of ordinary daily choices: sleep, movement, food, sunlight, friendship, purpose. The …
Enter the worldShinrin-yoku
Forest bathing — the medicine of trees.
Japan
Shinrin-yoku — literally "forest bathing" — is the practice of immersing your senses in the living forest. Medical research confirms what the body alr…
Read the preview“We will not give you another article to read. We will give you a single practice you can do today — and quietly, you will become someone you would not recognise a year from now.”