ТОП 10 ЯПОНСКИХ ПРИВЫЧЕК которые изменили мою жизнь

Summary

Highlights

• Starting your day early can boost productivity and well-being! 🌅
• Hara Hachibu helps maintain a healthy weight and prevents overeating 🚴‍♂️.
• Embracing seasonal changes brings new adventures and tasty seasonal treats 🍀.
• Fermented foods are essential in Japanese cuisine for good health and digestion 🌾.
• Baths are more about internal refreshment than just cleanliness in Japan 🚿.
• Danshari: A refreshing approach to minimalism and decluttering 🧺.
• Appreciating imperfections can add unique charm to life 🚪.
• Finding ikigai helps focus your life on joy and purpose 🎯.
• Second-hand shopping can offer timeless treasures and sustainable fashion 👖.
• Once you adopt these habits, you’ll see changes, like enjoying life’s small pleasures more! 🌈

Key Takeaways

• Integrating Japanese habits can transform your lifestyle in profound ways 🌟.
• "Hayane Hayaoki" teaches the importance of sleep for better mood and health 😴.
• Eating only 80% of your capacity can improve health and prevent overeating 🥢.
• Japan has four distinct seasons, and appreciating each one can enhance your appreciation for nature 🍂.
• Fermented foods like natto are staples in Japan, offering numerous health benefits 🍛.
• Taking baths as a mental re-boot, not just for cleanliness, can refresh you 🛁.
• "Danshari" encourages decluttering to create a lighter, more minimalist life 🧹.
• Cherishing and maintaining old things can be rewarding and sustainable 🕰️.
• The concept of "ikigai" helps find purpose and joy in daily life 🔍.
• Exploring second-hand shopping can lead to unique and stylish finds 👗.

Overview

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction and Overview of Japanese Habits The chapter, titled 'Introduction and Overview of Japanese Habits,' features a transcript by Tori-Chan, who discusses 10 Japanese habits that have positively influenced her life, style, and lifestyle. She frequently receives inquiries about her ability to maintain a self-managed work schedule and eat abundantly without gaining weight. She attributes these attributes to Japanese habits and highlights a significant Japanese proverb, 'hayane hayaoki,' as a life-changing influence.
• 00:30 - 03:00: Hayane Hayaoki and the Importance of Sleep The chapter discusses the Japanese phrase "hayane hayaoki," which translates to "early to bed and early to rise," emphasizing the importance of sleep for health. It mentions personal experiences where lack of sleep led to bad moods and health issues, underscoring the universal concept that adequate sleep is crucial for well-being. The phrase suggests a disciplined approach to sleep that is respected in Japanese culture.
• 03:00 - 06:00: Hara Hachibu - Eating in Moderation The chapter titled 'Hara Hachibu - Eating in Moderation' discusses Japanese lifestyles, particularly the phrase related to healthy living. It highlights the challenge faced by many Japanese individuals who work long hours and often go to bed late. However, the author points out that working remotely has allowed them and their partner, Izumi, to adopt healthier habits, such as going to bed early, typically by 10 pm. The chapter emphasizes the importance of moderation in daily routines, aligning with the broader theme of balanced and healthier living.
• 06:00 - 08:30: Living According to the Seasons This chapter focuses on the concept of living according to natural cycles and rhythms, as illustrated by the wake-up routines of the characters Izumi and the narrator. The characters have different waking times, ranging from 6:00 to 8:00 AM, highlighting their personal adaptation to their own body's needs. The concept of 'hara hachibu,' or eating until 80% full, is also introduced as an example of mindful living in tune with one's body, avoiding overeating to maintain health and balance.
• 08:30 - 12:30: Love for Fermented Foods The chapter explores the concept of the Japanese traditional diet, emphasizing its health benefits and its design to prevent overeating. It highlights contrasts with European eating habits, where tools like forks and spoons may encourage consuming larger portions. The narrative captures a personal insight into why one feels satisfied yet not overly full with Japanese meals, showcasing the discipline and portion control inherent in this culinary tradition.
• 12:30 - 15:30: Unsweetened Breakfast Tradition This chapter explores the traditional Japanese breakfast, which consists of a variety of small plates featuring fish, vegetables, tofu, and rice. The meal is designed to make you feel full without consuming a large amount of rice, as the diversity of small dishes and the use of chopsticks contribute to a sense of fullness. Additionally, the chapter touches upon the contrast with Japanese cafes offering large, high-calorie sweet desserts.
• 15:30 - 18:30: Using Baths for Relaxation The chapter 'Using Baths for Relaxation' discusses lifestyle habits, particularly focusing on Japanese cultural practices. It highlights the simplicity and healthfulness of their diet, such as adhering to the 80% rule to maintain a healthy weight without strict dieting, and the emphasis on seasonal living. It reflects on Japan's distinct four seasons and how these influences affect lifestyle choices, including dietary preferences and possibly using baths as part of a relaxation routine, which although not detailed, suggests an integration with maintaining wellness and harmony with nature.
• 18:30 - 23:00: Danshari - The Art of Decluttering The chapter emphasizes the Japanese concept of 'Danshari,' which focuses on decluttering one's life by appreciating the symbolic changes of seasons. It explains how distinct seasonal shifts, marked by natural phenomena like typhoons, highlight the importance of letting go of the old to welcome the new. These changes are also associated with season-specific fruits, vegetables, and cultural events, illustrating the art of living in harmony with nature's cycles.
• 23:00 - 27:00: Appreciating and Maintaining Old Things The chapter discusses the appreciation and maintenance of traditions, focusing on how the Japanese culture celebrates and enjoys seasonal changes through food and nature. It highlights the cultural significance of different dishes associated with summer and winter, like the cold somen noodles for summer and warm nabe soup for winter. Additionally, the chapter touches on the Japanese tradition of admiring seasonal changes, such as sakura in spring, hydrangeas, and momiji maple leaves in autumn. This seasonal appreciation extends to unique seasonal sweets like sakura-flavored treats available only in spring.
• 27:00 - 30:30: Valuing Potential Over Price The author shares a habit they have adopted, which involves always having something to look forward to. This habit provides a pleasant feeling as it ensures that each season is marked by unique events or experiences, like seeing specific flowers or tasting seasonal vegetables and fruits. The focus is on valuing the anticipation and experiences that each season brings, rather than just living through them.
• 30:30 - 35:30: Ikigai - Finding Life's Purpose The chapter 'Ikigai - Finding Life's Purpose' discusses the ease of accessing Japanese-grown products in Japan, often cultivated directly in the fields rather than in greenhouses. It highlights the Japanese love for fermented foods, which, though sometimes unappealing in appearance (e.g., natto), are valued for their health benefits due to the fermentation process.
• 35:30 - 36:00: Conclusion and Personal Reflections The chapter titled 'Conclusion and Personal Reflections' reflects on the author's personal journey and changing perceptions about natto while living in Japan. Initially, the author did not enjoy natto, a fermented soybean dish known for its various health benefits, but after two years, they have come to appreciate and love it. The personal account underscores that acclimatization to different foods may take time. The author mentions the commonly held belief in Japan that consuming natto daily is beneficial, and though their family doesn't eat it daily, they do incorporate it into their diet 2-3 times a week.

ТОП 10 ЯПОНСКИХ ПРИВЫЧЕК которые изменили мою жизнь Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 Hello everyone, Tori-Chan here! Today I want to talk about 10 Japanese habits that have not only become a part of my life, but have also had a very positive impact on my style and lifestyle. People often ask me: “Vika, how do you manage to work for yourself, at the same time control your schedule and manage everything?” or “Vika, why do you eat so much, but don’t get fat?” Truly, this is a Japanese secret. 1. The Japanese proverb that changed my life is hayane hayaoki.
• 00:30 - 01:00 If you translate it literally, it doesn't sound as cool as in Japanese, literally it translates to "early to bed and early to rise." Something like “he who stood up first gets the slippers,” only without any selfish overtones. Almost always when I was in a bad mood or had health problems, it was due to lack of sleep. And it's not a Japanese concept that sleep is important for health, but in Japanese there is this phrase "hayane hayaoki"
• 01:00 - 01:30 that you often hear Japanese people say when they talk about healthy living. It is clear that not all Japanese are able to go to bed early, since many Japanese work very long and very late, but thanks to the fact that Izumi and I are now working remotely from home, we are able to go to bed really very early. We are probably already asleep by 10 pm. Yes, we have children's time: at 10 pm we have curfew.
• 01:30 - 02:00 Izumi wakes up around 6:00, I wake up at 6:30, 7:00, sometimes 8:00. Yes, I sleep a lot. 2. Hara hachibu. This literally translates to “80% of the belly.” If all that fits in your stomach to the maximum is 100%, then the Japanese do not advise eating more than 80% of the size of your stomach. Because if you are 100% full or even overeating,
• 02:00 - 02:30 it is not good for your health. The Japanese traditional diet is made so that you cannot overeat it. Yes, at some point you filled your stomach with rice and it seems that you have eaten a lot of sushi, but after 5 minutes, when you have already gotten up, you feel that there is still 20% left for dessert. No you can not! When you eat European food, it is very difficult to maintain this habit because you usually eat with a fork or spoon a portion
• 02:30 - 03:00 that is already calculated for you to be full of. A Japanese meal looks like many small plates with different snacks: fish, vegetables, tofu and rice. And if you don’t pour yourself a lot of rice, then at some point you already feel that you are full due to the fact that everything is very small, varied, and you also eat with chopsticks, so you get full faster. Sometimes I show how we go to Japanese cafes and eat Japanese huge sweet desserts, where there are a lot of calories,
• 03:00 - 03:30 but usually at home we eat very simply, mostly Japanese cuisine and follow the 80% rule, so we don’t get fat even without a diet. 3. Live according to the season. The Japanese say that Japan has 4 seasons. Now, I think, they will ask me: “What, other places don’t have 4 seasons?” Really, the Japanese just think that Japan has very distinct seasons,
• 03:30 - 04:00 so it's a Japanese thing. You will clearly feel the change of season thanks to the very strong wind or typhoon that comes with us, when the season changes, you will know that spring is now over and summer has begun or that a typhoon has arrived and summer is over - autumn is beginning. Each season has some kind of peculiarity, some kind of symbol: vegetables or fruits that are grown precisely during this period of the year, some events or activities that are held only at this time,
• 04:00 - 04:30 also dishes that symbolize, for example, summer. Now we have cold somen noodles - this is a summer food, in winter it is nabe, a warming soup. And the Japanese truly know how and love to enjoy the seasons. They rejoice at every new little thing that appears during this season. Let’s say some sweets that are sold only in the spring in the store, with the taste of sakura, admiring sakura, hydrangea, momiji maple leaves, autumn lighting in temples, etc.
• 04:30 - 05:00 And I also adopted this habit, thanks to which there is always something you are waiting for. And it’s a very, very pleasant feeling when you realize that you’re not just living through winter or summer, and you are waiting for some event, some event or some flowers that can only be seen this season. And also food: I usually now eat only seasonal vegetables and fruits,
• 05:00 - 05:30 and this is very easy to do in Japan, because most stores sell Japanese products, those grown in Japan, and often not even in greenhouses, but simply on the fields. 4. Love for fermented foods. There are a lot of different fermented foods in Japanese cuisine. Some do not look very appetizing, like natto, fermented soybeans. They are slimy, a little snot-like. But this is considered very useful when the products are fermented.
• 05:30 - 06:00 Not rotten or rotten, but fermented, since various beneficial bacteria and more are formed there. It took me 2 years of living in Japan to get used to natto and love it. I didn't immediately fall in love with this thing. And it is believed that it is beneficial to eat natto every day. We don't eat natto every day, but 2-3 times a week for sure,
• 06:00 - 06:30 when we eat rice and Japanese food for dinner. And natto is useful because it contains nattokinesis, if I’m not mistaken. It helps the body not form blood clots. Therefore, especially in Japan, older people are advised to eat natto. Another useful fermented Japanese thing is osazuke, which is when various vegetables, mainly Chinese cabbage, are marinated with salt,
• 06:30 - 07:00 and sometimes kombu seaweed is added. It's kind of like Korean kimchi, but not spicy. And it also has lactic bacteria, which is good for your stomach, and then you can go to the toilet, because sometimes that can be a problem in Japan when you eat a lot of rice. And also nukazuke are vegetables that are pickled in a mixture of salt and rice bran, due to which they ferment. Because if you add only salt, they become salty,
• 07:00 - 07:30 but thanks to rice bran, different bacteria live there and do their necessary work. And it is believed that pickled nukazuke vegetables contain a lot of vitamin B, B1, and also potassium, and such vegetables themselves are absorbed much easier by the body than just fresh or even fried vegetables. 5. Have an unsweetened breakfast. In Japan, breakfast traditionally looks like what lunch might look like to some.
• 07:30 - 08:00 This is rice, fried fish, sometimes an egg, Japanese omelette, some snacks, natto - this is a typical Japanese traditional breakfast. Of course, nowadays you are unlikely to meet a Japanese who eats this kind of breakfast every day, but you can try this in a traditional Japanese hotel for breakfast. But still, many Japanese prefer to eat unsweetened food for breakfast. Let's say my husband Izumi does not accept pancakes for breakfast or cheesecakes or pancakes.
• 08:00 - 08:30 No, it has to be a salty breakfast. We often eat omelette, sometimes it can be bread, sometimes it is a traditional Japanese breakfast with rice. One of the reasons why Japanese breakfast looks the way it does is because before, the Japanese did not cook rice, as we do now, in a rice cooker or pressure cooker, but cooked it over a fire in a special large pan, and it was very time-consuming and expensive to cook rice every time for breakfast. , dinner and supper.
• 08:30 - 09:00 Not everyone could afford it then. Therefore, the Japanese cooked a lot of rice right away in the morning and ate only 2 times a day: in the morning - hot, just cooked rice, and for lunch in the evening they had slightly cooled rice, from which they prepared onigiri or poured it into soup. And also such a hearty breakfast helped the Japanese stock up on energy for the whole working day,
• 09:00 - 09:30 when they had to work in the fields. Of course, sometimes I miss sweet breakfasts, and I would really like to eat sweet pancakes or cheesecakes so that I can fill myself up right in the morning, but I admit that unsweetened breakfasts are much healthier than sweet ones, because sweet breakfasts often don’t last long, but only for the first few hours, and it’s also not very good when you eat sweets first thing in the morning: you can have a rather sharp jump in blood glucose.
• 09:30 - 10:00 6. Use the bath not to wash the body, but to reboot. The Japanese usually do not wash in the bathtub, they wash in the shower with soap and a washcloth, and only then, when they are already clean, wash their hair. They climb into a warm bath, where they relax for about 10 minutes and climb out. This is why in Japan, as you often saw in anime, parents and small children bathe in the bath at the same time,
• 10:00 - 10:30 or even take turns in the same water. Because it is believed that this water is pure and can be used by several family members. Not all Japanese do this, but it also happens. It comes from the onsen culture, the hot springs. Japan has many volcanoes, so there are also many natural hot springs. And since hot springs are a public space, like swimming pools,
• 10:30 - 11:00 and everyone goes in naked, people usually wash themselves before entering the hot spring. And in the hot spring itself they already enjoy thermal waters, steam and the landscape from the window. Therefore, for the Japanese, a bath is not a place to wash, but a replacement for hot springs. They even sell different salts with minerals from the famous hot springs that you can use in your bath at home. From my husband, I noticed that some Japanese people use the bath not when they are dirty,
• 11:00 - 11:30 but when they want to recharge: when they are physically tired after some kind of activity or mentally and want to clear their thoughts and put them in order. 7. Danshari. If you translate danshari, it doesn't sound as cool as it does in Japanese, unfortunately. This literally translates as the art of throwing things away. This word consists of three hieroglyphs - each hieroglyph has its own meaning.
• 11:30 - 12:00 The first hieroglyph is dangyou, which means to resolutely refuse what is unnecessary, to decide that I am throwing it away. The second hieroglyph is shagyou, steru, throw away, throw away unnecessary things. And the third hieroglyph is hanare ru/rigyou, to free yourself from attachment. That is, you don't just throw things away, you throw them out of your heart
• 12:00 - 12:30 so you don't think about it anymore. This is a really cool concept that has helped me declutter our home! In simple words, danshari is getting rid of unnecessary things and attachment to them in order to achieve lightness, so that you are no longer burdened by anything. The principle is very simple: you take all the things that you have accumulated over the years and divide them into 3 categories: things that you definitely need for something (for work/study/cooking),
• 12:30 - 13:00 things that you don’t need, and they can be thrown away, for example, some plush toys for cats that they don’t play with, or some unnecessary wires. And the third category is things that you are not sure whether you need or not. The first thing you do is throw away things you definitely don't need. At the same time, a very simple way to forgive yourself for throwing away things and, say, someone’s gift,
• 13:00 - 13:30 is to say: “Thank you very much, I accepted your feelings, but this bothers me, it burdens me,” and throw away this thing with with gratitude. The third category of things is a little more difficult - it’s better to put it aside for a while and return to it in a few days with new strength, let’s say, and look again at what you need and what you don’t need.
• 13:30 - 14:00 The Japanese usually do danshari, a big cleaning, before the New Year, and this is of course not only in Japanese culture. But we try to do danshari, sorting through things, every few months until we have nothing left to throw away. 8. Appreciate old things and buy new things as little as possible. This may seem a little contrary to danshari, where they throw away a lot of things, but in reality, if you don't buy unnecessary things, then you have nothing to throw away either.
• 14:00 - 14:30 Danshari does not mean that you should throw away absolutely everything you have around, and if you value old things and take care of them, you can use them longer and not buy new things to replace them. The Japanese concept of wabi sabi also comes from the Japanese love for things to change over time, when something gets older and older, it acquires some kind of beauty and nuance
• 14:30 - 15:00 that a new thing cannot have. And loving imperfections is also wabi sabi: if there is some crack in the dishes or something is a little torn or rusty, that is also the charm of that thing. In simple words, wabi sabi. Or kintsugi, when they restore broken dishes, but at the same time they use a gold finishing element, so that you can see into what fragments the dishes were previously broken or where a piece was missing.
• 15:00 - 15:30 To be honest, I have not yet been able to fully accept this concept and use it in my daily life. I'm currently trying not to buy a lot of unnecessary things and limit my purchases of new things. I'm good at it! But Izumi, I think, has already learned wabi sabi and this whole Japanese concept of loving old things or things that need to be grown over time, you could say.
• 15:30 - 16:00 Let’s say he is now wearing a denim suit that he bought, altered it a little himself: he changed the collars himself, removed the pockets, and he washes, dries, irons this denim suit himself, once every few days he needs to hang it up to iron it, so that it doesn’t there were some folds, etc. That is, he is trying to “grow” a denim suit.
• 16:00 - 16:30 And this is also very similar to the Japanese concept of loving old things. He's been wearing it for probably 2-3 years now, and plans to wear it for another 10 years. 9. Look at the potential of a thing beyond its price. The Japanese love brands, the Japanese love expensive things, but at the same time, it seems to me that the Japanese, at the level of mentality and some kind of consciousness, have the concept that price is not the most important thing.
• 16:30 - 17:00 Many times I have seen that some girl is dressed very beautifully, very fashionably - I give a compliment: “Oh, you have such a beautiful blouse or a beautiful jacket!”, To which the Japanese girl says to me: “Oh, thank you very much! This jacket It only costs 500 yen." And for a while I thought it was just Japanese politeness and a way of denying that they were praised and they were fashionable and beautiful, but then I realized that the Japanese often choose things not based on prices.
• 17:00 - 17:30 Of course, there are those who stand in line to buy themselves a "Supreme" T-shirt or something else because of the brand, but many people I know actually choose their items from thrift stores or inexpensive stores and make a cool look, already based on your style. Moreover, if a person is wearing a $100 T-shirt, $500 jeans and $1000 shoes,
• 17:30 - 18:00 then most likely he looks good. But if a person is dressed very stylishly, and everything costs $2-3 dollars, it gives respect that this person most likely has a sense of style and was able to find such an item at a thrift store or somewhere inexpensive. Perhaps this is why various second-hand stores are so popular in Japan. There are whole streets of different shops with used clothes! And there is nothing strange or bad if a person buys clothes mainly there.
• 18:00 - 18:30 People buy clothes there not even for the sake of saving money, but because they can find something really unique and fashionable. 10. Ikigai. Ikigai has become such a popular word among foreigners that it scares me a little. Because the book "Ikigai" was published by a Japanese writer, which became very popular among many foreigners.
• 18:30 - 19:00 And this word began to be used absolutely everywhere, even slightly ignoring the original concept. But truly ikigai is also a very simple thing that manifests itself in the daily life of the Japanese. There is nothing overpriced, I would say so. There is a diagram that explains well what ikigai means. These are 4 circles that intersect with each other. The first is what you love, the second is what you are good at,
• 19:00 - 19:30 the third is what you get paid for or what you can make money from, and the fourth is what society or this world needs. And what's in the middle is ikigai. That is, this is not exactly the meaning of life, but it is not a hobby, either. They say that the concept of ikigai has existed since the Heian era, which is approximately the 790s, and at that time life was very difficult for ordinary people. And in order to somehow support oneself, there was such a thing as ikigai,
• 19:30 - 20:00 which could be a support and an incentive to live on. Nowadays, if you ask a Japanese what his ikigai is, they will look at you like a strange foreigner who has read some books or watched the series "Shogun". Of course, in Japan this concept still exists, and many Japanese people know what it is, but no one will clearly tell you what ikigai is for them, because it is not something that a person can easily find in himself.
• 20:00 - 20:30 People are looking for this all their lives, much like the meaning of life. But at the same time, it is a little easier to find than the meaning of life, because you yourself can decide what it can be. For me personally, the search for ikigai and what it can become in my life has become a good distraction from all the negative thoughts, or negative news, or panicky thoughts that humanity may end due to global warming, etc. When you think about what exactly your ikigai is,
• 20:30 - 21:00 it helps a little to determine your future path in this life, what you want it to be, and not just when you think what is the meaning of life, when there may be no meaning, etc. .d. These were my healthy Japanese habits that I tried to somehow integrate into my daily life. Which of these were you interested in? Which ones would you like to try too? I look forward to your comments. Thanks everyone for watching! Bye everyone!