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The Finnish Way
- Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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 listeners 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.
- 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 audiobook shows us how to achieve it.
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- RAN
- 2018-07-03
Amazing listen.
So many practical strategies that for health that Finns have been doing for decades / centuries.
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- Celia
- 2019-11-08
The "not-secret secret" for a good life!
Great book, great advice, and a very entertaining narrator.
This book reveals the "not-secret secret" for a good life: no nonsensical hacks or unpractical tricks, just real, proven, easy ways to feel good, stay healthy and live with intention.
I see connections to mindfulness and yoga (the a way of life, which includes the physical practice, but not limited to): the Finnish lifestyle and working-out our Sisu muscle seem to be about finding balance between comfort and discomfort... and pushing a bit further!
On a personal level, I'm pleased to discover I've been living this way for most of the last ten years -- but not enough time in nature though -- and the Sauna trips with friends are definitely the highlights of my Canadian winters.
And to make the pun an anonymous reviewer missed.... I loved it, start to Finnish! I will also listen again as it's a feel good, mood boosting, kind of book :)
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- Ben GH
- 2021-02-21
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A nice overview of nordic approach to minimalism, health and well being... should be a good read for newbies looking into this areas of life. For others, just a nice collection of banal reminders... which is also fine.
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- Mathieu Voyer
- 2021-11-15
Very good book ! I learned a lot.
well I was curious about this lifestyle and i have anxious tendencies. So the book confirmed and boosted what i was already beginning to transform in my life. This is a great book informing on a vision of a good and viable lifestyle that everybody can reach.
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- Bruno D.
- 2018-07-13
Wow !
A good dose of commonsense in the hectic world we live in today. Highly recommended for anyone wanting to take care of their mental, spiritual, physical, emotional and financial health with simple down to earth actions. Very liberating.
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- Anonymous User
- 2019-08-17
love it!
highly recommend this book! I loved it start to finish! will definitely listen to again and again!
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- Lisa
- 2018-09-14
Great outdoors
I've been having a great time listening to this book as I walk outside and finding my Sisu. #Audible1.
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-01-08
Excellent
Thoroughly enjoyed this book! Do yourself a favour, get a mug of tea, a cozy blanket and listen to the excellent narration while being inspired by the author's journey.
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- Sonia Schiebel
- 2019-01-22
Entertaining and enlightening
Great book. Easy to listen to, some great ideas from a society that puts something other than just work and money in the forefront as important. A great guide on making different life choices. Sauna anyone?
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-10-31
What version of Canada did she live in??
I guess she wrote this book years after she left Canada, so she’s maybe describing the 90’s? But the version of Toronto and especially Vancouver she writes about is perplexing and doesn’t sound like the Canada I know. You can choose to live whatever kind of life you want in those cities, it was just HER life that was all celebrities and cocktails and cramped rush hours. The writer describes Finland like it’s some magical place (and it does sound nice enough) but it also sounds pretty similar to Canada... a resilient people, a strong welfare state, revelling in the cold weather, lots of bike paths, tons of time in nature. Sure there are consumerists in every culture, but she overstates the case. It sounds more like she was just on a bad path (and in all fairness she does explain that she was depressed and her job sounded horrible) but that’s more about her choices and personal situation than there being a remarkable cultural/lifestyle difference in Finland. This is all relevant because it undercut her as a reliable narrator for everything else she described: if she misunderstands Canada this badly, who knows if there’s any value in what she has to say about Finland? Too bad. Good narration though. Much preferred Helen Russell’s “My Year of Living Danishly”.
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