In this fast-paced modern world, anxiety, fear, loneliness, and depression are steadily on the rise. Drawing on her own mental and emotional challenging experiences, author Rui Bigmoon offers readers Nickname Your Emotions and Hug Them. This enlightening guide focuses on how to align ourselves with love, harmony, and gratitude to navigate life's challenges. Sharing anecdotes from her own life, Bigmoon delves into the subject of interconnected consciousness and presents strategies and exercises to improve mental, physical, and spiritual health. She introduces the Gratitude Method and shows how assigning nicknames to our emotions can help us better regulate them. The book also features breathing and meditation techniques that empower us to become mentally, physically, emotionally, and psychologically healthy.

Nickname Your Emotions and Hug Them: A Japanese Approach to Emotional Healing, Inner Peace, and the Law of Attraction is one of those holistic self-help guides that are must-reads, especially in the times we live in. Rui Bigmoon gives an unflinching account of her struggles with relationships and anxiety and shares her journey toward recovery and healing. All the strategies and exercises featured are applicable to everyday scenarios. Even better, these practical exercises are suitable for people of all age groups. Bigmoon also has a very personable writing style that I think readers will love. This makes it easier to relate to her experiences and learn the strategies she shares. The author explains each concept in great depth to make sure readers are easily able to grasp it. One of the other highlights of the book for me was its succinctness. This makes it all the more accessible. Highly recommended.

Nickname Your Emotions and Hug Them by Rui Bigmoon may seem a strange title for a book, but that is exactly what the contents, full of great advice, suggest that you do. The author is Japanese and has taken tips, thoughts, and exercises from numerous sources to help people combat depression, helplessness, and unhappiness. From the depths of despair that Bigmoon suffered, she discovered ways of coping with the world, and not just coping but beginning a path to serenity. Several body functions are mentioned, such as overcoming negative thoughts by simply confronting them and hugging them. Other physical exercises are included, such as deep breathing, various exercises to strengthen the spine and muscles, relaxation techniques, and projecting a positive attitude. She explains how different parts of the body are interlinked, the difference between voluntary and involuntary functions, and the importance of supplying sufficient oxygen. All these are explained in easy-to-follow routines to change and cope with everyday life.

I was eager to find out what Rui Bigmoon had to say about changing your life from negative to positive. Having visited Japan and been very impressed by the tranquility and peaceful surroundings, and how happy everyone appeared, it was a surprise to learn that this author fought depression and hardship in her life. She shares how she overcame all her problems. Nickname Your Emotions and Hug Them is ideal for anyone who needs some practical help in learning to live again, to face adversity with a positive attitude, and take the tension out of both mind and body. Most of us are unaware of how uptight we are in our daily lives. In reading these helpful and practical tips, both physical and mental, the contents show how we can be happier, healthier, and even less judgmental. This is a short book, but it is packed from beginning to end with so many helpful tips that it deserves a second read.