My Hygge Home: How to Make Home Your Happy Place

by Meik Wiking

upon bibliotherapy, the method of using books to aid people in solving the issues they are facing by reading about characters who are facing similar problems. My belief in the healing power of words has increased still more since then, and one reason for this is the experiences of William Sieghart.

And the biggest anxiety of them all? Loneliness. For this, William prescribes a very short poem written in the fourteenth century by the Persian poet Hafiz: “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”

The magic potion of poetry shows us that someone, somewhere, has felt what we are feeling now.

We can utilize the idea of hygge to transform our living and working spaces into places where we count our wealth by the depth of our bonds and the absence of our wants.

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