Today, I would like to share with you another Japanese bio-hacking method, Ikigai.
How could Ikigai be a bio-hacking method? It isn’t a diet. It isn’t a fasting technique. It isn’t an exercise. And it isn’t any kind of healing method.
Well, I think it is the core of bio-hacking and bio-harmonizing.
Yesterday, I attended a symposium in our town, and Kazumasa Sashide, the editor in chief of a famous magazine called Sotokoto spoke there.
Sotokoto features many projects happening in small rural towns and villages across Japan. Kazumasa Sashide is the author of a book called Bokura Wa Chiho De Shiawase Wo Mitsukeru, We Find Our Happiness in the Countryside. He depicts many cases of young people moving to the countryside and finding their Ikigais.
Today, I will share with you how to plan for your health in 2021.
I call onsen a Japanese sauna, and it has a tremendous wellness effect. I definitely think onsen is one of the secrets to Japanese longevity.
Using a wood-burning stove can be our hygge and Ikigai.
How to find your Ikigai in Patagonia and outdoor sports.
Which is more important for longevity, Ikigai, or diet?
According to a Japanese book called Hyakujusha No Kenko No Himitsu Ga Wakatta, Centenarians’ Secret to Health, Ikigai is the most important factor of longevity.
There is a book that explains the whole situation of how the word Ikigai is misinterpreted outside Japan and spreading. Ikigai Demystified: Ikigai Is Not A Venn Diagram.
While it isn’t entirely false, many Japanese people feel a little puzzled by the fact that only Okinawa is spotlighted as the land of longevity. There are other blue zones in Japan. Okinawa isn’t ranked high in the national prefectural life expectancy ranking.
