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Renew Your Mental Energy: Awaken Awareness and Purpose This January

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The first month of the year carries a special significance as a new beginning. It also serves as an invitation to pause, reset, and consciously choose how to move forward. While the new year is often associated with goals and resolutions, the most meaningful renewal begins with awareness—of your intentions and ikigai.

Mental energy is crucial to staying balanced, so it is important to replenish it throughout the day. Constant noise, the pressures of familial and financial responsibilities, as well as emotional overload can deplete mental energy. This January, why not consciously choose to reconnect with intention and purpose?

Renewing mental energy starts with awareness. What replenishes vs. drains you? When do you feel the calmest and most restored? Awareness helps you to recognize patterns that don’t work and consistencies do. Do you have a habit of overcommitting? Do you try to accomplish too many things at the same time and thereby get very little done? Are you reacting rather than choosing? Becoming aware of your own behavior allows you to create space and energy. January is an ideal time to ask yourself some basic questions that will serve to renew your mental energy and provide the positive movement you want:

  • What deserves my mental energy this year?
  • What am I ready to let go of from the past so I can move forward this year?
  • What can I do to feel good every day?
  • When do I feel the most empowered and how can I maintain that strength?

Awareness is not just about taking action; it is also about getting enough rest. Mental renewal is not about doing more; it’s about doing what matters and leaving space for rest. Moments of stillness, reflection, movement, gratitude, and meaningful connection all help recharge the mind. Perhaps counterintuitively, slowing down is what helps to regain the focus needed to move forward with purpose.

As 2026 begins, why not try setting an intention rather than a resolution? An intention rooted in awareness evolves, whereas a resolution is static, perhaps the reason so many resolutions fail by February, because they no longer serve their original purposes. Whether your intention is clarity, balance, growth, or peace, let it help make the right choices throughout the year.

Renewing your mental energy is a practice in line with mindfulness and feeling good every day. By awakening awareness now, you practice empowered living. You choose to live with purpose. and remember, take deep breaths and hydrate every single day: two simple acts that help renew mental energy!

Happy new year of 2006! May it be your best year yet!

Choose Gratitude to Write the Next Chapter of Your Story

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Approaching the end of the year is the ideal time to pause, reflect, and decide who you want to become next. As you step into a new chapter of your life, one of the main practices you can choose is gratitude.

Choosing gratitude is a vital aspect ofEmpowered Livingand Feeling Good Every Day. Empowered Living starts with the belief that you have the ability to make things happen and to write your own story. Gratitude reinforces that belief. When you consciously appreciate the positive aspects of your life, you’re much more likely to feel good every day—or at least most days!

Studies show that gratitude reduces stress, supports better sleep, enhances relationships, and contributes to overall emotional and physical wellness. When your mind feels lighter and your heart feels steadier, it becomes easier to take meaningful action. Gratitude creates an inner environment where you can thrive—where feeling centered, motivated, and hopeful becomes more natural.

Gratitude isn’t just a feeling. It’s a practice, a mindset, and a daily choice that can shape the way you experience your life. In other words, gratitude may shift your perspective from the bleak or negative to the bright and positive. Life is full of ups and downs, and gratitude allows you to focus on the ups while letting go of the downs. This conscious embrace of the positive does not mean ignoring the negative, but it prevents misfortunes from taking center stage.

When you take time each day to acknowledge your strengths, the people who care about you, small moments of beauty—you become grounded and develop clarity and resilience. Gratitude propels you forward with confidence and intention, to becoming a Human Being More.

Expressing gratitude strengthens relationships, deepens trust, and encourages kindness. When you acknowledge the people who support, inspire, or simply share part of your day, you create a ripple effect—your gratitude attracts others to be grateful for being connected to you. Each relationship that is forged in gratitude stands to last the longest.

Whether you have new goals or simply want to continue working on existing ones, taking small steps consistently every day will bring results. Gratitude is a great partner with patience and hope. As you head towards 2026, write your next chapter with gratitude and intention. Honor yourself and all that you have been through, regardless of whether it’s in service of others or simply surviving the unexpected ordeals in life.

You have the power to choose where you’re going and who you become.

All of us at Nikken wish you a beautiful season filled with love, joy and gratitude.

Renew Skin and Spirit in the Comfort of Your Home

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December is an ideal time to prepare for the new year. As the year winds down, there are some activities that are not only fun but also beneficial to overall health. Two such enjoyable activities are the renewal of your skin and your spirit. Rather than go to a spa or a retreat, skin and spirit can both be revived, renewed and regenerated in the comfort of your own home. Simply carve out a private area and make sure all electronic devices are off.

For skin renewal, the three basic steps are cleansing, toning and moisturizing. Be sure to choose products that are made with ingredients of the highest quality, such as the Kenzen True Elements® Marine Organic Skin Care line, which is EcoCert® COSMOS certified, an international certification renowned for its strict guidelines and guarantees the highest organic integrity.

At the heart of the True Elements® range is a synergistic blend of sustainably harvested organic seaweeds and coastline plants. These natural ingredients are a source of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, antioxidants and fatty acids.

For cleansing, regenerating and remineralizing, use Velvet Cleansing Milk and Radiance Scrub. The Velvet Cleansing Milk gently removes impurities while seaweed extracts provide trace elements and minerals that help boost the radiance of the skin and maintain its moisture content. Radiance Scrub is formulated to gently exfoliate the skin with natural perlite mineral so that its natural glow can shine through. Organic seaweed and sea fennel help to strengthen and protect, while organic aloe vera helps to renew damaged skin.

For toning, refreshing and brightening, use Refreshing Tonic Lotion and Youth Activ Serum. The tonic is perfect for the removal of makeup and grime. Seaweed extracts, spray-dried seawater, and aloe vera are combined to help soothe and tone the upper layers of the epidermis, leaving skin that looks fresh and bright. Youth Activ Serum is rich in marine extracts and hyaluronic acid to plump skin from within and supports skin’s elasticity, leaving the skin looking firmer and smoother. Organic ulva lactuta helps brighten skin and decrease the appearance of dark spots.

For moisturizing, protecting and restoring, use Moisturizing Face Cream and Revitalizing Serum. The Face Cream is smooth and light, enriched with marine extracts, shea butter and hyaluronic acid to moisturize the skin. Organic sea fennel is packed with minerals to support skin cell regeneration. Revitalizing Serum is enriched with sea fennel, hyaluronic acid and marine magnesium to moisturize intensely and help transform dry, dull-looking skin into supple, youthful-looking skin.

Your complete skin regimen can be followed with spirit renewal, or you can set aside special time just for your soul. Again, find a dedicated space that feels peaceful and serene. This can be outdoors or indoors, depending on the environment you prefer. You can choose complete quiet or select soothing, meditative music—whatever promotes calmness within you.

You may choose to sit or lie on top of the KenkoGround® to feel connected to nature. Practice deep breathing and simply rest, or do some stretches to help your physical state be in tune with your relaxed state of mind.

Another way to practice mindfulness for renewal of your spirit is to write down your feelings and thoughts. Renewing your spirit does not have to involve goals and to-dos, only if writing those down feel beneficial during this private time. You can focus instead on your inner secrets, emotions and deepest reflections.

Enjoy your private time with yourself as you head towards the end of the year, and you might decide to to schedule skin renewal and spirit renewal regularly! It’s all part of empowered living and feeling good every day, both internally and externally.

Great Sleep Fuels a Fully Empowered Life

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One of the 10 actions for Empowered Living is recharging your energy. Achieving this requires connecting with nature, consciously breathing in fresh air and getting restful sleep. Humans spend about a third of our lives sleeping, because it is critical to healthy living and longevity.

Here’s what happens with good quality sleep:

• The heart and blood vessels heal and repair themselves.

• Grhelin (hunger hormone) and leptin (satiety hormone) are balanced. Inadequate sleep makes ghrelin levels go up, so you feel hungrier than when you have restful sleep.

• Healthy insulin levels are supported. Insulin controls blood sugar levels, which increase when you are sleep-deficient.

• Deep sleep triggers the release of the growth hormone that helps children and teenagers develop healthy muscle mass, repair cells and tissues.

• Deep sleep supports healthy development during puberty and promotes fertility.

• Restful sleep supports the body’s immune system. Sleep deficiency can affect the body’s natural defense system against germs and illness, making it difficult to combat infections.

• Major threats to longevity are decreased. These risks include heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity and stroke.

• Good sleep supports the brain to improve learning and memory. Problem-solving, decision-making and creativity are enhanced.

Sleep deficiency can result in feelings of stress and depression; and can cause mood swings, lack of motivation and not getting along in social situations. It can also cause lack of focus, problems in learning new things, slow reactions and poor decision-making, which in turn result in making more mistakes. It’s a vicious cycle of frustration and fatigue, lack of confidence and inertia. In other words, when was the last time you felt joy when you were sleep-deprived?

Smart nutrition, clean air and water are basic necessities, but when you think about humans spending a third of our lives sleeping (or at least trying to sleep), the importance of good sleep is obvious. If you can’t sit still, watch TV, read or be a passenger in a vehicle for an hour without falling asleep, you probably need more restful sleep. It’s not about quantity as much as it is about quality.

Create your sleep sanctuary and commit to good habits that support deep sleep, so you can feel good every day and experience empowered living! With great sleep, you can choose joy!

Source: https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/sleep-deprivation/health-effects

https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/sleep-deprivation/health-effects

Do You Need a Digital Detox?

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The term “detoxification” is defined as the process of removing toxic substances or qualities. In the case of a digital detox, it refers to a set period of time for an individual to stay away from the devices and social media sites that have become such an integral part of life — smartphones, computers, tablets, televisions.1 

A digital detox will vary from person to person. In fact, you may not even know you could do with a digital detox, because you are so accustomed to being constantly online, whether it’s email, playing video games, scrolling on social media, texting, checking the latest sports scores, or even just binge-watching TV.

It may be time for a digital detox if you2:

• feel the need to check your phone constantly.

• feel you’ll miss out on something if you’re not checking social media.

• feel depressed, angry or anxious after being on various social media platforms.

• panic if you can’t find your phone.

• suffer from disrupted sleep because of constant notifications.

• feel compelled to post, respond or react online.

• prefer virtual interactions rather than in-person ones.

If you decide to do a digital detox, here are some tips for unplugging3:

• First decide which behavior(s) you want to change. Is it too much time on the smartphone? Do you scan too much news? Are you posting a lot on social media or responding constantly?

• Create a plan that includes specific goals. For example, set timeframes for yourself. How much time will you allow yourself to be on your devices, assuming you are practical and will not try to go “cold turkey.” You can decide to put your phone out of reach after a certain hour at night, so you can sleep without interruptions. You can designate certain days as tech-free days.

• Give yourself a deadline to break a specific digital habit. Don’t just try to detox in a day or two. Make it a long-term commitment. To start, give yourself at least a few weeks to try the reduced digital regimen.

• Find a partner, family member or close friend to support you and provide accountability. Just as it’s sometimes helpful to find an exercise buddy, it can be encouraging to find a digital detox partner!

• Be honest with your progress. Are you replacing one digital habit for another? For example, are you spending more time on TikTok now that you decided to forego Instagram?

Doing a digital detox is about taking charge of your time and energy. It’s about being mindful and appreciative of your surroundings and the people in your life. Everyone needs to zone out sometimes, but are you empowering yourself or numbing yourself? A digital detox doesn’t mean giving up your devices, but it can help you decide where and when to focus your attention and energy.

When you do a digital detox, spend the bonus time you create for yourself by grounding—dig your feet into the grass, dirt, sand or puddle! Be aware of the changes that your digital detox has manifested. Are you sleeping better? Do you feel less stressed? Are you more productive? Are you experiencing more actual contact with friends and family? Are you feeling good every day?

1 https://www.brownhealth.org/be-well/what-digital-detox-and-do-you-need-one

2, 3 https://health.clevelandclinic.org/digital-detox

Do You Know Five Ways You Can Listen to Your Body?

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Our bodies talk to us every day but sometimes we don’t listen and miss out on some important cues that can help keep us in top physical and mental shape! To make sure you are feeling good every day, be sure to spend a little time alone with yourself and really listen to what your body is telling you.

Here are five ways you can listen to your body by asking a few questions:

1.         Do you feel rested, tired or so-so? Is your body telling you to get a good night’s sleep or do you feel energetic and ready to tackle the day? Do you need to break up your busy day with a nap? Restful sleep is an important part of feeling good every day and one aspect of practicing empowered living.

2.         How are you feeling mentally and emotionally? Are you sad and depressed, anxious or stressed out? Or do you feel calm and content? Paying attention to your state of mind can help you maintain high energy levels and to avoid a slump. Sometimes all it takes is getting up and taking a walk in the fresh air to feel stable again. Deep breathing, getting up and stretching, a few minutes of quality time with yourself—these are all simple ways to maintain your mental equilibrium.

3.         What do you like to eat and is it nutritious? Are you eating regular meals? Are you snacking in between meals when your blood sugar dips? Are you actually hungry when you eat, or are you eating mindlessly out of boredom? Do you have a good cut-off time in the evening when you stop eating until tomorrow morning? Overeating and undereating can both wreak havoc with your body and your overall mood, so are you eating more or less than usual? If you are, what is your body telling you? On the other hand, mindful eating or eating the right foods at the right times of the day—based on your personal preferences and needs—can help you feel good every day.

4.         When was the last time you exercised? Do you have a daily routine to get up and do something active? Exercise doesn’t have to be a full-out strenuous workout at the gym. It can be a brisk walk with your dog or a stroll with your toddler. It can be doing a few laps in the pool or doing chair yoga, stretching out on the mat or cleaning your kitchen. Setting aside time every day to do something active can help you feel good every day. Once you start, your body will remind you every day it’s ready for some movement.

5.         Quality time with people who are important to you is key to feeling good every day. Are you spending enough time staying connected to those you care about? Do you text or call your elderly parents? Do you text or call your adult children? Never underestimate the power of talking and laughing with someone you feel close to, whether it’s a friend, mentor or family member. It does wonders to cheer you up or you can be cheering them up!

Listening to the body means cultivating a mindful awareness of what it (you!) needs at any given moment, followed by honoring that need. This intuitive practice will help you understand and make decisions based on internal cues, rather than steamrolling past your own limits. Long-term, sustainable health comes when you listen to your body, and then respond with care, action, and compassion.1

1 https://lindywell.com/listen-to-your-body-strategies/?srsltid=AfmBOorRVWB2X-ZymDQsijV9BGE7JIWRiyMBMSmQ8zRIM26bj0Y9WTDf

What is the Foundation for Vitality?

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What’s the first thing you think of when it comes to vitality? What do you think provides you with that feel-good sense of being able to take on the world? Is it a healthy heart or a great set of lungs? Is it your clarity of mind?

It may be surprising to know that your digestive system plays a crucial role in how you feel! The microorganisms that live in your gut contribute to a balanced (or unbalanced) microbiome. When it’s balanced, nutrient absorption is working at optimal levels and the key to energy production. In other words, a digestive system that is breaking down food very well, is enabling the body to extract and absorb as many nutrients as possible, resulting in high energy levels.

The “feel good” neurotransmitter is serotonin, and it is vital to the connection between gut health and whole body energy, since about 95% of the body’s serotonin is produced in the gut. A healthy gut produces ample amounts of serotonin, which helps mood and sleep, two essential factors for maintaining high energy levels.1

Proteins, fats and carbohydrates are all essential for energy production. Even if you eat balanced whole foods, if your digestive system is not functioning well, these nutrients cannot be absorbed efficiently. If your body does not absorb enough nutrients, you may feel tired, lethargic or have an overall feeling of fatigue.

What you eat plays a significant role in gut health and energy levels. Professional athletes adhere to a strict diet regimen because it directly impacts their performance. The same holds true for all of us—a poor diet that is high in processed foods with added sugars and unhealthy fats will disrupt the balance of gut bacteria. By choosing whole foods rich in fiber, you can actually create a healthy and balanced gut, which in turn produces high levels of energy that help you to feel good every day.

Eating naturally colorful foods, mostly found in fruit and vegetables, helps provide a broad range of nutrients that include antioxidants. Since fiber is so important for a healthy gut, incorporate whole grains, such as brown rice, quinoa and oats. Fiber will help you stay regular, another important aspect of gut health. Include lean proteins found in fish, poultry and legumes, as they will help you maintain muscle mass and energy levels.

Probiotics and prebiotics are found in fermented foods and are known to promote balance in the gut. If you like the taste of yogurt, sauerkraut, kimchi or garlic and onions, you can incorporate them into your daily food regimen. You can also supplement with Golden Gut Formula, an advanced, integrated nutrient source uniquely designed to support gut health. It not only helps to balance the microbiota in the gut, it provides prebiotic support to help the probiotics work more efficiently and to deter bad bacteria from growing. Always remember to drink lots of PiMag® water to stay hydrated, knowing that water helps digestion!

Good nutrition is key to gut health, but physical activity is also important. Regular exercise helps maintain digestive health and support gut motility. You don’t have to be a high-performing athlete to achieve an improved gut: simply choose an activity you can do consistently—whether it’s walking, biking, swimming, yoga, Pilates or chair exercises—your gut will feel the difference and your overall energy levels will improve, so that you can experience vitality—the essence of feeling good every day—and the empowered living lifestyle.

1 https://greaterorlandogi.com/2025/01/13/how-digestive-health-affects-your-energy-levels/