The average Australian goes to work, goes home, has a drink, has tea, sits down and watches
television, goes to sleep, wakes up and goes to bed, can't sleep, gets up the next morning tired and
does it all again. No wonder they're stressed out of their brain.
If you can't find time to
• get away from the desk at lunch time and go for a walk
• exercise
• go for a decent holiday each year
• meditate
• mix with friends
• go to the pictures in the middle of the week
• read a book
• conduct a good romantic life,
… it's time you woke up to yourself. Get a life!
HOW TO RELAX YOUR MIND
If you want to relax your mind you need to start doing the things that relaxed people do.
For starters they meditate. Meditation would have to be the easiest and most cost effective thing
you can do to improve your physical and mental wellbeing.
'All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.' Blaise Pascal
There is a compelling reason to meditate. It's not like it's hard. You don't have to do anything except
sit in a chair with your eyes closed and drift off with the faeries into the alpha brain-wave zone.
Meditation is the best way to 'warm up' that part of your autonomic nervous system that relaxes
muscles and blood vessels. And like a smile, it gives much and costs nothing - just a bit of time.
Most people can't find the time, including those who spend 20 hours a week watching TV.
Secondly, they keep themselves aerobically fit. The reasons for doing so are legion but in the stress
reduction arena, vigorous physical activity burns up the stress hormones and washes them out of
your body. What it does is 'cools down' that part of your autonomic nervous system that wants to
fire you up, tighten your muscles and constrict your blood vessels. You can't have a relaxed mind in
that state without a physical and mental collapse.
You'll know you're getting the right type of exercise when you get a sweat up. You stimulate your
elimination system - which involves your lungs, your skin, your kidneys and your bowel. You also
get out of your body the waste products of a toxic environment. You feel better.
They take a lunch break, get outside for a wander round.
They take their holidays. Paul Pearsal in his book Superimmunity says you need at least one
twenty-one day holiday a year. Anything less than that and you're still worrying about the work you
haven't completed and the work you still have to do.
Leonardo da Vinci said,
'Every now and then go away, have little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your
judgment will be surer; since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power of
judgment. Go some distance away because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in
at a glance, and lack of harmony or proportion is more readily seen.'
Good advice now as it was then. People like to think life has sped up since Da Vinci but no doubt
there was a rat race in Florence in the 16th Century. And speaking of the rat race, as Lily Tomlin
said, 'Even if you win the rat race, you are still a rat!'
They eat wisely, plenty of fruit and vegetables and not much fat, flour and sugar. They drink plenty
of water and hardly any alcohol.
They like a good laugh.
television, goes to sleep, wakes up and goes to bed, can't sleep, gets up the next morning tired and
does it all again. No wonder they're stressed out of their brain.
If you can't find time to
• get away from the desk at lunch time and go for a walk
• exercise
• go for a decent holiday each year• meditate
• mix with friends
• go to the pictures in the middle of the week
• read a book
• conduct a good romantic life,
… it's time you woke up to yourself. Get a life!
HOW TO RELAX YOUR MIND
If you want to relax your mind you need to start doing the things that relaxed people do.
For starters they meditate. Meditation would have to be the easiest and most cost effective thing
you can do to improve your physical and mental wellbeing.
'All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.' Blaise Pascal
There is a compelling reason to meditate. It's not like it's hard. You don't have to do anything except
sit in a chair with your eyes closed and drift off with the faeries into the alpha brain-wave zone.
Meditation is the best way to 'warm up' that part of your autonomic nervous system that relaxes
muscles and blood vessels. And like a smile, it gives much and costs nothing - just a bit of time.
Most people can't find the time, including those who spend 20 hours a week watching TV.
Secondly, they keep themselves aerobically fit. The reasons for doing so are legion but in the stress
reduction arena, vigorous physical activity burns up the stress hormones and washes them out of
your body. What it does is 'cools down' that part of your autonomic nervous system that wants to
fire you up, tighten your muscles and constrict your blood vessels. You can't have a relaxed mind in
that state without a physical and mental collapse.
You'll know you're getting the right type of exercise when you get a sweat up. You stimulate your
elimination system - which involves your lungs, your skin, your kidneys and your bowel. You also
get out of your body the waste products of a toxic environment. You feel better.
They take a lunch break, get outside for a wander round.
They take their holidays. Paul Pearsal in his book Superimmunity says you need at least one
twenty-one day holiday a year. Anything less than that and you're still worrying about the work you
haven't completed and the work you still have to do.
Leonardo da Vinci said,
'Every now and then go away, have little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your
judgment will be surer; since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power of
judgment. Go some distance away because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in
at a glance, and lack of harmony or proportion is more readily seen.'
Good advice now as it was then. People like to think life has sped up since Da Vinci but no doubt
there was a rat race in Florence in the 16th Century. And speaking of the rat race, as Lily Tomlin
said, 'Even if you win the rat race, you are still a rat!'
They eat wisely, plenty of fruit and vegetables and not much fat, flour and sugar. They drink plenty
of water and hardly any alcohol.
They like a good laugh.
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