Monday motivational: Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future - Nelson Mandela

The art of relaxation

To relax sounds like the easiest thing in the world. 'Just relax'! 'I cannot wait to get home and just relax'. All so simple. And yet when one really sits down to it, and embarks on this relaxation journey, you realise just how difficult it is in practice! To quiet your mind, to be present and still in the moment. To do nothing but just be.

One imagines that to relax, you need to be in a Radox bath, with lit candles, and Tibetan monks humming sweet nothings through the speakers. Or alone on a beach, with the waves crashing at your feet and nothing but miles of sea before you. Perhaps your idea of relaxation is like mine, being in nature and hearing the sounds of birds and insects all around you.

In truth, relaxation is something that should flow from your very soul. Wherever you are, and whatever you are doing. Stress is a killer and something that is forever knocking at our front doors. To be able to relax, we need to be healthy. To be healthy we have to fuel our bodies and minds with appropriate energy. We need positivity all around us. We must stay clear of the negative news, energies and hypes that it is so easy to be sucked into. Perhaps we need to stay clear of social media even, and the television. 

We need to be kind to ourselves, and to be kind to one another.

And in the interim, just relax. :)

Monday motivational: Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing - Benjamin Franklin

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