From candlelight comforts and nature escapes to nostalgia and mindful living, the concept of 'hygge' explores how simple pleasures shape emotional well-being in a world increasingly clouded by digital illusions and rising stress

You enter a room drenched in moss green. Even the interior décor and furnishings don varied shades of the same colour. This soothes your eyes and you immediately feel at home. Again you step into an art gallery. The paintings brushed with oil and acrylic hues transport you to a different world. The artist’s imagination casts a hypnotic spell. The experience is at once surreal and enriching.

You open the shutters of your bedroom window and the flowers from creeping vines instantly greet you with a sweet scent. You are ecstatic at heart. Also, when you lean over your balcony grill to marvel at the starlit sky with the round white moon floating in cloud-boats across its dark canvas, you escape into your dreams in no time.

And then there’s always that loving warm uncle or a jolly agony aunt in every family to bring along that aura of hope and mirth missing in your life for sometime. They have been spreading goodness with their unfading charm since your childhood days with rollicking stories, delicious chocolates and unadulterated fun.

Hurrah! It’s Hygge