Our surroundings influence our health and mood and place our wellbeing in our control. It is not enough to satisfy basic physiological needs like clean water or good air quality. To reach the full potential of this interaction, we need to go further, beyond the biophilia hypothesis, to new territories of sensory perception and explore…
Tag: wellbeing
2023 Retrospective ‘Get the vibe’ – Just Chill
In today’s fast-paced and often chaotic world, prioritizing our well-being and creating an environment that reflects our inner selves is more important than ever. We can always strive to elevate our lives through small daily rituals or significant life changes. We’re highlighting a few essential articles over the past year that highlight ways you can…
Culture, welcome to mental health age part 2
When in 1946, the World Health Organization (WHO) appointed Mental Health as an actual discipline, it globally validated the field and closed the last loop on what human health is. That was two thousand years since Hippocrates linked psychological disorders to biological causes and broke the pre-existing belief that mental illnesses were fuelled by supernatural…
Face it, we all have one disorder or another
So why are we not using them more to our advantage, and how can we change that? Let’s find a creative way of looking at the struggles we have by readjusting ourselves to normal parameters – as if that is all there is to it! There are many historical examples of serious disorders that proved…
Beyond skin wellbeing, health, and the wheel of life
How did Wellbeing and Wellness come about? Without proper understanding of their beginnings and awareness of their evolutionary path, they will only last as much as a frog’s breath between its hibernation cycles. Here is a short but relevant timeline of what wellbeing was, is and will be, forever. Health was simply a part of…
The old renaissance man is dead. Long live the new renaissance human
The self is not a closed capsule but a shareable entity. Man, as the center of the universe, a subject against the infinite objectified world around, has an unsustainable future. Self-help, self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-knowledge are all inward-looking concepts that evolved from centuries-old self-centrism and were modelled on scientific isolationism. The new human is race-less,…
Selftropy Manifesto – We exist beyond skin
As the universe expands, so does our mind, our time on earth, and the complexity of the life we lead. We spill over beyond skin. We exist outside of it in the space that surrounds us, in the knowledge we have and the experiences we sense, and in the people we interact with. We’re all…
What you need to know to work well from home
We now know that health was impacted by excessive work-at-home pressures, with social and behavioural factors being in the lead. It turns out there are many measures we can take that would improve previously unmanageable conditions. Start with the basics, air quality and light, and adjust your interior climate to suit Air pollution is prevalent…
Quote of the month
A home should be fun, relaxing, comfortable, and, both: personal and sustainable. Read on in Land of Dochia, Issue #2 (monthly digital periodical)
SHARING, Monthly Focus
Winding up the hill in the fairytale of winter where forests filled with the chirp of sparrows line up the long, asphalted roads peppered with few cars and happy ski-goers heading for the slopes, the pure, unadulterated experience of nature only slightly adjusted by humanity, not enough to pollute but good enough to get us…
Design and science are equally important
Reality is systemic, inter-connected, and ever-changing, and it does not take place in a vacuum. Design methods produce solutions that reflect that. They are environment-sensitive, bio-responsive and non- destructive to both the human subject and the environment. Science, in an unnatural way, validates everything through experimental isolation. Equally valuable truths stem from both approaches; science…
BELONGING, Monthly Focus
You’re in. You’ve got your people. Someone has your back. You have someone else’s back. That’s what belonging is—a sense of certainty like no other. You matter in the context of others, those who accept you for who you are because you are like them or complement them on some cosmic level. Belonging is not…