Relaxation is Vital for a healthy life
Do you make time for relaxation? Health problems and age-related diseases are rampant in our society, mainly because of poor lifestyle choices, which includes not making time for relaxation. Would you like to avoid high blood pressure, obesity and all the health problems associated with stress? Stress keeps our bodies from functioning in their best possible way and relaxation is the key to combating this stress.
What does relaxation mean to you?
Is relaxation a trip to a health spa for a facial and massage? Taking a yoga class? Perhaps for relaxation you take the family boating and camping or take a vacation to the beach to build sand castles? Whatever relaxation means to you, it can also be done on a budget or cost nothing at all.
Most Americans don't know how to relax. In American families, both parents often work outside the home and kids are involved in a miriad of activities so time after work is spent running children around and grabbing fast food on the run. Then there is housework, grocery shopping and yard work to take up every extra moment of the day. Who has time to relax?
For a simple relaxation technique, try some deep breathing exercises or sit comfortably and listen to some soothing music, trying to clear your mind and thing about nothing at all.
Try these tips for relaxation::
- Do something you love for 30 minutes whether it's a craft, reading a book, listening to music or sitting in a porch swing and looking at the sky - but NOT watching television. Make sure it's an engrossing activity where time passes so quickly, you look up an it's one hour since you started it. If you don't have such a hobby or pleasurable activity in your life - find one today!
- Take a warm bath while sipping a glass of wine, add soothing music or a good book to transform your day.
- Go window shopping but don't buy anything.
- Take a walk for pleasure, not exercise, Enjoy the natural scenery around you.
- Watch an old comedy on TV Land or an old movie - one without all the blow-em up special effects of modern movies.
- Work on a 3,000 piece jigsaw puzzle
- Do not feel guiltly about taking some "me time."
Remember, your body can't function properly if you're all stressed out. Relaxation doesn't have to be costly-Just take time and do it!
A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your
mind is quiet.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
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