Wikipedia has great background including:
The Lexin-Swedish-English Dictionary defines Lagom as "enough, sufficient, adequate, just right."
It is also widely used as a state of living that is "in moderation, in balance, optimal, suitable and average."
When I came across this word it reminded me of the ideal of Fudo Shin. This is often used in martial arts training as the state of stable or unmoving mind" or unmoving heart."
An old definition that I have in my training notebooks of Fudoshin is:
A spirit of unshakable calm and determination, courage without recklessness, rooted stability in both mental and physical realms.
Like a willow tree, powerful roots deep in the ground and a soft, yielding resistance against the winds that blow through it.
Stan Wrobel, Ph.D. wrote in Aikido for Self Discovery: Blueprint for an Enlightened Life
"Too often we try to hard or do too much. There is little trust in riding the flow, in effortlessly staying in touch and on top of the situation. Without effort it seems like we're not participating, we're not doing, and we're without self-image that we can relate to. Effort, tensions, and impatience characterize our being."
