Languishing: neither depression nor flourishingCategoriesKnowledge

What is languishing?

Languishing: neither depression nor flourishing

Are you constantly weakened, lacking motivation, feeling empty, unable to enjoy life? It doesn’t have to be depression. In recent times, a new concept has emerged in the field of mental health that resonates with many individuals who may be experiencing a sense of stagnation and emptiness. This concept, known as “languishing”, has gained attention as people seek to understand and address their emotional well-being.

CategoriesLifestyle

Work-life balance and perfect balance. How Kavaha helps you find balance in your daily life.

What exactly is the famous “work-life balance”? Practical principle, real goal or ideal? This phenomenon escapes definitions and pigeonholing. It’s also like a repeated mantra. You can hear about it both at corporate training and after hours, for example watching TV series (isn’t Friends one big story about daily breaks from work?). It’s both a measure of professional success and personal happiness. And for a long time it seemed to be perfectly universal. Eternal. Can’t be changed. But something between “work” and “life” has changed. The balance point on the scale has moved.

More and more often we wonder whether the work-life distinction will serve us. At first glance, everything seems simple: at work, we forget about (other) life, then we forget about work, switch off and focus on the “right” life.

CategoriesKnowledge

Adaptogens and Kava. How nature fights stress.

Adaptogens are a phenomenon. First of all, the phenomenon of nature: plants with unique properties, often hidden in inaccessible places and surrounded by an aura of wonder, for thousands of years used and deemed invaluable in ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine (although reserved mainly for rulers and elites – these herbal potions used by, amongst others, Genghis Khan). On the other hand, adaptogens are also a modern health phenomenon: safe support of the body in even the most demanding conditions, until recently used almost exclusively by astronauts or Olympians, today gaining widespread popularity around the world.

Adaptogens fascinate researchers and users. We are most fascinated by the question: is Kava an adaptogen?

Noble Kava in EuropeCategoriesKnowledge

Kavalactones. The mystery of nature under screening.

Kavalactones. That is, how Kava Kava works

Where does the unique effect of Kava come from? How is it possible that Kava can simultaneously calm the nervous system and increase dopamine and serotonin levels? At the same time, provide inner peace and restore energy for action? 

The answer lies primarily in the roots of Kava and the action of its active ingredients, the kavalactones. Or to be more precise: in their interaction. It is the particular composition of the kavalactones – the natural chemotype – that determines the way in which a particular Kava affects our body.