Skip to main content

SWITCH OFF FOR FIVE MINUTES EVERYDAY

                                              
 

Spending a few moments by yourself can do wonders for your well being.
No,it is not really being selfish, as some would say.It does not mean you have to shut down the rest of your life or retreat to the Himalayas  either.In our daily life we're so busy doing chores like driving down to school to drop our children or pick them up,cooking lunches and dinners, tending to our families,shopping for the household,helping kids with heir homework ,finding solutions to their problems,our problems,meeting clients,listening to our bosses, paying our bills etc.We are constantly wearing our selves out each day.  
We can’t fix ourselves. We can’t find our own way. We certainly can’t control life’s twists and turns.But we can gradually learn to calm down and let our grey cells take a siesta for five minutes in a 12 hour schedule or more.
 To be honest ,I tried it. Didn't work the first few times , I must admit . I tried to figure out why I have this problem ? I realised I am more comfortable with noise than silence, I pod in my ears instead of  natural sounds while walking early in the morning , activity than stillness, struggling than surrender, trying to be strong than admitting to my weaknesses.
A French philosopher once wrote : “All human miseries come from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.” Could he possibly be right? Do we humans need more me time than we permit ourselves? Time to take our thoughts and feelings seriously? 
The courage to bring them honestly before ourselves to see what we may want or where we are heading ? 
Recently I wound up having to sit in an office for far longer than I had anticipated. It was an important meeting two blocks away and supposedly a short one so I didn't carry my phone with me . Now for a person who cannot do anything without her gadgets it was supposed to have been a nerve-jangling, finger-strumming  time. After an initial fit of irritability,I decided to  utilize my time by trying out reflecting inwardly for just five minutes.Surprisingly,there was utter silence in the office lobby I was waiting in and it actually worked .Within five minutes I had made peace with my irritability ,bringing about a smile on my face . 
There will always be things to do .It would likely do wonders to focus our lives on not over doing, to focus on the meaning of life above its routines and to focus on the positives more than the negatives. Perhaps you live at such a pace that a half day or even a half hour of silence with yourself seems impractical. For today, put just five minutes of silence between appointments, or work two five-minute periods of quiet into your daily schedules and see the impact it has on your well being .
But please don't forget to switch off your phone first .
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Mr.Nosy Parker

"It's Ringing ." "Pick it up ." "It could be important ." How many times have you heard that ?  It's a nuisance .I've nicknamed it Nosy Parker .It is ill mannered,it interrupts whenever it wants to - like the middle of the night . It gets out of control yet people don't put a leash on it .  It creeps up whenever it wants to ,anytime and anywhere. Talk about stalking- it's a pro at that . It scares the hell out of you when it comes up unexpectedly at your door . If you refuse to entertain it ,it pesters you . The word privacy is not in its dictionary .It doesn't understand that people may like solitude and their space. Imagine yourself at a theater,seated in a perfectly silent auditorium , engrossed in the most powerful performances being delivered by your favorite actors, at the edge of your seat ,waiting for the suspense to unfold ...  and suddenly it starts ringing!  It breaks the spell and the momentum . Hateful, vile, inexcusabl
Post a Comment
Read more

Magnificent miniature paper city

Paper craft  It's a city . Paper city ? Who made this ? It must be made of cardboard,I thought . I was wrong .  These creations took my breath away as they will yours . Mesmerizing stuff .Could almost walk through those alleys myself . Breathtaking city in paper .   And I thought I was brilliant at making those paper boats,planes ....oh well ! Never mind . Worth a look .  These figures come from the “Lavazza Fairy Tales”. The announcement was made in animation by using stopmotion technique. It is installed in a paper city. Buildings are made three-dimensional and the characters are bi-dimensional. In order to make the publicity, more than one thousand paper shapes were used, and each of them has a different movement. The shapes were drawn, at the beginning, at hand and then, modifi ed in the post-production and afterwards, in the end, cut with a cut laser printer. Houses are made in shapes of polystyrene cubes covered by thin cardboard sheets. Don't miss the intricately carved
Post a Comment
Read more

A ball of confusion

                                                                                               Earth from the view point of a Martian ( if he exists) If we isolate ourselves from Earth , getting away some distance from our world ,it would help us focus our attention on what it is otherwise too obvious to notice while we stay on it . To see what we may be really like it will help if  we  put ourselves into the  shoes of a "Martian," if he happens to wear such an invention of the earth in the first place  .  So what do Martians see of Planet Earth ? What they see today is a population of over six billion people crawling out from every nook and corner like caterpillars . Now ,almost all of  this six billion devote a significant fraction of their time and energy to some sort of religious activity: rituals such as daily prayer (both public and private) or frequent attendance at ceremonies.Does this bring about a change in them?  From their point of view ,it must be hard keeping up
Post a Comment
Read more