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Thank you so much for watching my video! :) I post a new video on slow living, simple living and noticing the simple joys every week but if you're curious to see more of my content, check out my blog! As a writer, I have a full archive of posts written on the Simply Joys blog about how to find more joy in your life as well as slow and simple living, mindfulness, and living in France. I hope it brings you as much joy as it did me making it! :) Have a magical day, lovely! ☀️
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Need some recommendations for reading for pleasure! Too many non-fiction books on my bookshelves. Our culture encourages us to always strive to “improve “ ourselves which also can lead to anxiety and a feeling that there’s something wrong with us as we are.
It depends what you like, a good old fashioned murder mystery or a Stevenson novel always takes me places :-)
Ohmygosh I could not agree more! 🙌The self-improvement culture can be very unhealthy when taken to an extreme and our culture tends to glorify it. I have my favorite fiction reads on my website! helenawoods.com/favorites I adore anything and everything by Colm Tóibín, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Patti Smith. The Signature of All Things is my favorite fiction book of all time. Elizabeth Gilbert's short stories are incredible and so underrated. Check out Pilgrims and Stern Men. Time Traveling Wife is also great - could reread it a hundred times and it never gets old. Audrey Niffenegger's tone and writing style is so cozy and comforting!
@@helenawoods omg.I'm currently reading The Signature of All Things and I love it so much! It's already one of my favorite books. Do you have a Goodreads page?
I recommend A Prayer for Owen Meaney, the Narnia Series, the His Dark Materials thrilogy and any book by Dan Brown 🌻📖
Jane Harper writes amazing crime novels, see The Dry for instance, they made it into a movie recently.
1:18. *1. Connect with nature*
2:13 *2. Getting off social media*
3:12 *3. Set aside time to just live*
4:44 *4. Stop caring*
5:43 *5. Be discerning*
6:50 *6. Non-attachment*
7:37 *7. Balance: slow living vs productivity*
9:19 *8. Habit tracking*
10:25 *9. Don’t turn your want-to’s into have-to’s*
10:44 *10. Don’t take life/people (too) serious*
10:57 *11. Approach life as an experiment*
So many golden nuggets in here! I've recently decided to adopt the slow living lifestyle as well, and what you share inspires me.
I'm experimenting with taking more time to do mundane things, like doing the dishes or cooking. Also started taking morning walks first thing in the morning, which I really enjoy!
Still a beginner on this path. I have a tendency to want to push the limit, be efficient, speed things up. But I'm now experimenting with doing the opposite: do less, do it more slowly, but do it well.
It took me a while but i did al that .:)
I'm a Senior & Disabled. I've been depressed over my situation. Thank you for reminding me of The Simple Pleasures in life and finding Joy. You are an inspiration. Thank you for your contribution. Much love and happiness to you🥰
*"without boredom, creativity has no space to drop in"* YES! I've had this exact thought so many times. Beautiful video and wise thoughts, this resonated with me so much. I watched your video on reducing social media from a wee while back, and I found it so helpful. Even this last week or two I've noticed such a wonderful improvement in my mental health and increased abundance in my creativity since cutting down on social media. On a side note, I'd love to see a video on your creative process, how you get inspiration, and how you capture such beautiful videography shots. Big hugs from Scotland 🤗🌿
Hi Kat!! 🥰Ah YES! I would love to make a video on creativity and inspiration! Such a big part of my life, I can't believe I haven't thought to make one on this yet! Thanks for that fabulous idea! And ohmygosh yes. Getting off social media has done WONDERS for my mental health and creativity. It feels so empowering to get off. My day-to-day life is calmer, more ease-filled and connected. I want to make a video on this too because there's so much I could go in detail with lol. Ah beautiful Scotland!!! 😍😍😍 Sending you such a big hug right back lovely! 💕
I find it lovely that, at a young age, you've learned that truly appreciating life is what matters. So many only discover this truth when they realize that they've grown old (too quickly) and time is fleeting.
You hear every single beat in nature👌 amazing♥️
Nature is music to our ears! :) Thank you Yassine
It is so difficult to find people who understand my being. I feel you understand the things I love and appreciate. Peace is so important to my well-being. I can be out in nature all day while others are complaining about it. There is so many Wonderful things to see, hear, feel and learn.
I also find so much peace in nature and it grounds me. Beginning of the month on the warmest weekend so far this year I took a short bath in the really cold river danube here in germany and it was great! It made me so present and I felt alive and free. I live in a city but the river here is so strong, calm and ancient. I love your videos, they bring me alot of inspiration and are sometimes so beautiful that it's touching! Love from germany to you all!
lovely comment ! - -
Hi, I love your videos so much. They are like visual meditations for minimalists, so soothing and spiritually nourishing. Thank you for your channel. ❤
Simple living is so therapeutic! ❤️ I love your videos, very relaxing and inspiring! 🌷
Thank you lovely!!
Me too. Love it so much. Thank you simple joy
No facebook no Twitter no Instagram and I will be seriously cutting back on Yt! I do enjoy channels like this and those I can pursue learning from. Life is too precious to be spent looking down at screens and comparing oneself to those who carefully edit out what they choose in order to present an ideal. Ty for helping me to think clearer and to choose what will bring peace and more JOY!
You inspired me to finally start my own UA-cam channel the other day, I credited you in my first video about when you said in a video that you decided you wanted to do UA-cam videos so you made one in a day and posted it.
I love your content so much and I just wanted to say a big thank you all the way from Australia.. your content is so valuable to me xxx
Oh wow!! This brings such a BIG smile to my face! Literally beaming.😍 I'll check out your channel now! I read somewhere that literally just starting a youtube channel is the hardest challenge to overcome! Huge congrats on beginning your journey!! Enjoy the ride! 🥰☀️💕
I could watch this over and over and not get tired of it 🌲 🌳🍃 🍂🌸 🌼
I need to put down my phone more often and just chill out and relax. Slow living. Romanticising my life. Love this. Research about french living it’s amazing.
I am so glad a found this channel. You are doing incredible work young lady. You have a very unique voice and a powerful message.
Thank you Jason! 🥰
"Without Boredom, creativity has no space to drop in" ~ So much perfection in those words~ 💫Thanks so much for being the beautiful you that you are Helena ~💞🤗💞
So beautiful that everything is getting green in your place already 💚 I also love watching the garden through the window for hours - so healing ✨
So glad you enjoyed it, Alina! 🥰💕
I'm just beginning my journey and I have so much to learn. Finding peace and harmony is not always easy x
Such a great video. It moves me so deep❤️❤️...
This is giving me a dose of inspiration everyday....really therapeutic...Thanks. Lot
It depends what fb is used for . My friend list are spiritual teachers and mystics and every day is a deep trip into the spirt realm .
Wow this is really well done! Amazing quality footage and very well edited. You look like a very talented film maker. :). Love the sharp saturated colours and your camera angles. Greetings from germany
Social Media can be dangerous !
Absolutely pinterest video. The scenarios are just dreamy like the creeck' stone where you sit on, oh! It is so refreshing😊
Good afternoon, Helena! How are you? I'm questioning my career and am making plans to step away from it. It's all-consuming, thankless and therefore toxic. There is more to life than working yourself into the ground. Have a great weekend. x
Hi there!
Seeing the notifications of your videos on my phone is one of the simple joys in my life 😇
You inspire me to express more of myself and showing my love to nature fearlessly, because I always thought I'm just a weird girl who loves hugging trees!😆🌳
You taught me that it's OK to be me :)
Thank you 💜💜
Much love sweetheart 😍💋
Aw I'm sending you such a big hug Hasti!!! 💕💕🥰😍
When I meet People and they ask Me what I “Do” I say I’m Happily Retired .
It usually makes them Smile 😊
Heart of Kentucky. Simple Joys. When I use to sew quilt art by hand, hours and hours a day, new music compositions would pop into my head, even though I wasn't thinking one thought. I would have to get up to go to one of my instruments, to play it. I also had much poetry, and ponderings to write down, that also popped into my head, and they ended up in my homemade books. They say, women can multitask. At the same time, I see what you are talking about, to focus on one thing at a time. I'll listen to this video, over and over. Katie.
aw thank you Katie!! 🥰 how beautiful!!
Beautiful and calming as Always!!thank you!! I deleted all social media years ago, never had Instagram...why look so much into others Life when you can do magic with yours? Enjoy the Moment even if its boring somethimes...its a part of Life..like you Say be creative and take more Deep ingales..Life Is now, enjoy It , embrace It!!
Hannah , I found you by chance , ans can’t be happier ! I’m much older than you , but admire how wise you are . I admire what you have found in your 20’s I’m realizing in my 40’s. I guess better now than never !😍 please continue your journey and send us the beautiful episodes. 🥰🥰❤️❤️
Your videos are getting better and better. Really good content and editing, with an important message.
Thank you!! Playing with a new style 🥰
@@helenawoods It’s a really good style! ...Incidentally, I’m 53, and currently looking after a cattle farm in the Scottish Highlands as a live-in volunteer. (I used to be a journalist and university lecturer, then an education advisor... so this is a totally different way of life for me. And one that really enables me to take pleasure in the simple joys!) The farmer, who is 66, is in the process of moving to France from the U.K. and has been over in France since the end of last year. He has a lot of stressful bureaucracy to deal with at the moment, trying to meet certain requirements in order to become resident in France and get permission to set up in business over there, made manifestly more complicated because of Brexit and lockdown. I emailed him one of your videos a few weeks ago, and he replied that the message really resonated, and that he was making sure he focused on the simple joys of the blossom on the apple tree in the garden, and the beauty of the old wooden beams he was using to renovate an outbuilding etc., in order to ensure that he is making the most of life whilst he is alone, in lockdown, waiting for the wheels of French bureaucracy to turn. I just wanted to tell you this so that you can see how your message, so beautifully communicated via your sumptuous videos, resonates with people of all ages, all over the world. Thank you for all the effort you put into creating the content you are uploading for viewers. It is really appreciated.
Thanks for sharing this. I love this video! I think most people need to stop scheduling fun or a vacation. In the U.S. most people don't use any vacation days and it is So Essential to have and take that time because it will make a person more productive. People Need to laugh more and stress less.
totally!!
Heart of Kentucky. Happy Saturday Simple Joys. I really got a lot from your new video. While you spoke about not multitasking, When I us to see quilt are by hand
Beautifully done! And yeeeees to grounding - especially physical grounding. It is so powerful 💚
Such calming therapeutic vlog. Big fan🦋🌸
Thank you! That was simply so sweet! I have to tell you...I loved seeing you touch the mess, tree and flowers. I have to tell you that last s um Merry when the world was standing still...I would get up at sunrise and walk 2 miles and go to the river. It was absolutely BEAUTIFUL. I would often do that too. It showed me a brand new different world in wee hours of a new dawn and you are right...somehow, some way..we become transformed. 😊🌞
I always feel happier and uplifted after watching your videos 😊 Love this style of a mixture of chattiness and scenes from your day to day life.
Oh great! It's a new style I'm experimenting and playing with!
I’ve been quietly watching most of your videos now for about 5 months. I don’t have anything profound to say, I just want to thank you for sharing your wisdom. You’ve put a voice to what I have felt for much of my almost half century of life. Thank you!
Hi Jodee!! :) Thank you dearest! 💕🥰 Your words brought a smile to my face this evening, thank you for sharing your light with me.
I'm so grateful to you for your channel, i love it❤️🏞️
I'm a new fan!! So meaningful!!
@Simple Joys Could you check your PayPal link? I've tried everything and can't get it to work, and regular paypal doesn't recognize helenawoods or 2Fhelenawoods. I'd really like to give back, if just a little. Thanks! Lore🍃🌿🌱
Love it 💖✨ I love your old vlogs so much ✨💖🤗 Thank you so much for making them.
The social media part is so great, And of course everything else too. I decided early this morning to spend much less time in front of the computer and therefore automatically spend less time on social media. From tomorrow only a maximum of 2 hours per day. With few exceptions. 😁
...."The quiet gift of boredom." What a wonderful expression!
Thank you for the challenge to put the phones away--if there is one thing that I could recommend to everyone it is PUT THE PHONES AWAY! dts
Hey there! Sorry for my English! I just wanted to thank you, this video encourages me. Every day i dream about getting up, opening my windows and have that beautiful landscape to contemplate. Thanks for sharing.
What a wonderful video! Everything was so well said!😊❤️
So great to hear you resonate with it Annette!
I love your video.
I am very thankful for you for making such an inspiring video!
I wish you to be the one you are nethertheless no matter what.
Peace! ❤
Yours are the only “slow living” videos I’ve seen on UA-cam that are actually inspiring. ❤❤❤
Helena, thank you so much for your beautiful videos! They speak to my heart and my soul more than you can know. You certainly have found your calling. You help to bring us back to that quiet place within that some of us have lost or ignored for way too long. Thank you for all that you do and may God bless you always!
THIS is why I sold my car, despite living in a big city, where not having your own car draws ire and confusion from most people in my professional field. I have a professional degree (graduate degree).
One day, decided to walk as much as my beautiful full health body and legs would do. I love my body and legs and take care of them. I want to and my aim is to honor nature (e.g. sun, moon, trees, foliage, beaches, etc.) and animals, not material possessions. I walk everywhere or I take public transportation or a taxi, which is rare. If I want to go out farther, I can rent a car or take a train. After the pandemic is over, I'll resume air travel. Intentional choices are much closer to nature than following the crowd.
You are in the right place to live slow..I love Europe you know here in USA is not such thing I try, for instance, I was off yesterday and I sleep the whole day...
I am glad I am that type of person who cannot convert from traditional book to audiobook. People use audiobook to multitask... listening a book (sounds weird to me) while doing house chores or something. No I cannot.. I want to enjoy my book. Yes, I am one of those single taskers
This is so inspiring! It helped me a lot since i'm a person that sometimes forget about how we need some balance in life. This made me cry, thank you, you made my day!! Also, loved your cat! (It is yours, right?)
Thank you for sharing your light with me Priscila! :) Actually, she's not our cat! She's out neighbor's cat lol! So bizarre - she walked into our house and right into our bed the 2nd day we moved in and she hasn't left ever since. The neighbors know about it and we laugh about it all the time. My husband and I are hoping to get our own cat eventually though!
Quick tip from my Mom ; always put a rug down before sitting down on moist ground.
Protects clothes and stops bugs !
Amazing video with such beautiful and wise meaning. It helps a lot, thank you!
I have just begun my exploration of slow living. This video is so helpful in understanding the essential steps to develop a mindset to' being' rather and 'doing'. I think the introduction of the fact that you still need to work is valuable, too many of the videos I have seen do not mention that 'bills have to be paid'. Personally I too have found dumping social media has been one of the best things I have done.
My simple dreams to live a life surrounded by nature❤️❤️❤️...
Hi I love your videos they are calming and inspirational too. I've been very mindful of what I have been doing today noticing the breaths I take the quietness. I thank you for that too. Have a lovely week.
I love your videos and attitude to life. I have to' live slow' as I have a health condition which means I have very little energy. Your video is so helpful for me. You have a very 'Buddhist' attitude to life. I also love where you live. It's so beautiful. Thank you.
Bless you, I understand how you feel having a health condition myself, I hope you feel better and your energy levels increase..yet you're still so lucky.. I don't have the luxury of slow living despite having a family of autistic brothers and dad and an ill mother...
@@MAhmed-zs2vp That must be really difficult for you. I am lucky in that I am now retired so can take life at a much slower pace. Take care.
@@MAhmed-zs2vp
I was in a similar situation. What helped me heal, both my condition and the suffering of life circumstances, was deceptively simple: letting go of resisting what is already here.
There's a book by David Hawkins, "Letting Go", that may really change you for the best. Give it a try. I believe it can really help you, as it did me.
Best of luck and I hope you find peace.
*LOVE* Buddhism! It's the religion I connect most with and a lot of what I believe is based in Buddhist teachings. 😊 Gosh I'm sorry to hear about your health condition, Lizzie. I'm glad to hear the video is helpful. I will start writing a video for the future on simple little ways we can live slowly and joyfully with low energy. That's a great topic for a video and I think it may help a lot of people who are also experiencing it. I'm sending you a warm hug 💕🥰
@@lizzieh5284 Bless.. thank you.
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So well done!!!...thank you SO much
Very important to address slow. You live with a lovely cat😍.🍂💕🍁
This is one of my Favorites!!! I love nature so much. Thank you for your words.
Oops..that's MOSS...not mess lol
Truly needed this I’m new at this and I need and crave peace and slow living like I never have I’m so tired of feeling afraid
And worried about abandonedment
You are so right about social media. It is divisive and destructive. I also deleted all my content. I feel so much better. I hope others find a way of this jungle of misinformation.
I always care about the process but these days are very goal oriented..
so I have to neglect the process and focus on the outcome. hence it makes me anxious and stressed. there is no joy of doing things anymore. I had to chase the deadlines in order to survive. I missed studying where I enjoy the process just like in high schools. meanwhile in university, there is too much competition :(
Thank you for sharing.and opening my.mind to the reality.slow living is a form of healing for me.hoping for more inspiring videos from you.
My only resolution for this year is to slow down and start living more intentionally, and now your channel is in my recommendation feed.
This was such a beautiful video, you have a new subscriber 💛
You’re saving my life ♥️ thank you!
Do you ever give credit to God? He is what makes you feel grounded
Thank youuu, your video makes me feel so calm💛
I"ve got the same journal book, lol
You have inspired me. Thank you for your video. i shall watch it again and again and share it with others.
Thank You - You are simply brilliant ☺️
Simple Joys I adore you💚
I always wonder why iam so different than the people around me, i always want to live a life close to nature, then i come across videos like this realising iam not alone, they may not be around me but millions are out there, helps me get through tough time.💚
Such a wonderful video! Thank you for sharing.
Wooow, so beautiful massage from this movie 😍 thank you ❤
A Big Thank you for this video . . .J'avais besoin de ça . . .merci . . .شكرا . . . .
Oh finally the video I was waiting for so long... Thanks alot
Yes, I thought of you and your comment when I started writing this! I hope you enjoy! :)
@@helenawoods thanks a lot
@@helenawoods such observations is really special for we viewers... Loved it.... ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much for your incredible video ❤️
I hope you are writing a book because I would definitely buy it
This was such a beautiful video. Thank you!
I am glad people are posting videos like this, because this is my dream. I still struggle to keep up
Your voice and the way you pronounce words is similar to Dakota Johnson
oh wow, thanks!! I don't know much about her, but she seems very elegant and down-to-earth in interviews, I like her!
Practically in tears. Thank you. Thank you.
5:22 i think we should stop comparing our bank balance too
totally!!
You're an old soul in a young body. Thank you for your wisdom. 🙏💜
Beautiful video. Also love your earrings!
Me too I'm not interested in facebook. It's too weird, where is this video from.
your videos have helped me so much ❤
I resonate with your thoughts. Live slowly.
I am so happy to find there are people who approach life the way I do. I came to that a bit later in my life, great young people are able to find it sooner.
Beautiful video Helena! I loved everything you said and "let the heart guide you" the most ❤ it was so joyful to look at these two scenes with your neighbour's cats. They're such a cuties xxx
Aw thank you Emmy!! 🥰🥰
Heart of Kentucky. Hi Simple Joys. It's around 3 am. I prayed for you and your husband, and your mother. Katie.
Hi Katie! 🤗 so so sweet and generous of you, thank you very much! I’m seeing my mother in a few days actually and I’m so excited to be reunited with her 💕🥰
beautiful advice!!! Thank you!
Omg im so glad I found the this channel! 💖🥰
I just discovered your channel, at a time when I am really struggling in my life. You are wise beyond your years - and you fill my heart with peace and hope. Thank you for helping me 💛
sending you such a warm hug! 🤗
Thank you so much for your tips. 👍✨💕