The 5 Minute Trick to Recharge Yourself
You have 1440 minutes in a day. You can afford to spend five minutes on this technique.
Today’s mornings start with a rush.
You have to exercise, make & have breakfast, get ready, and commute to work. If you have kids, you’d need to get them ready and drop them off to school or daycare as well.
And that’s just the morning!
Throughout the day, you have to do hundreds of tasks. Even when you’d have free time, you’d find yourself scrolling through social media or consumer entertainment content. If you do nothing of that sort, you’d be sitting and thinking and planning — groceries, weekend plans, career thoughts, or even dinner ideas.
Your mind works non-stop!
So, it’s natural that you’d be drained by the end of the day. It’s expected that with time your energy and initiative will decrease.
Luckily, there is something you can do to recharge your mind.
Give Yourself Permission to Do Absolutely Nothing
Say it out loud.
It’s ok to do absolutely nothing for five minutes.
You don’t have to watch netflix, plan about future, listen to music or use social media. Take a break from everything.
How can you do that?
- Firstly, find a comfortable and relatively quite place.
- Get a comfortable seat or bed.
- Sit or lie down
- Close your eyes
- Stop any thought that comes to your mind. After a few seconds, it will become easier for you.
To get even better results, you can do it when you are getting a massage. Another way to improve the results will be to do it in a jacuzzi or sauna.
In those settings, someone (or something) else will be taking care of your bodily stress. Give your mind that opportunity to destress as well.
Robert Frost, in his famous Leisure poem, articulated this in a beautiful way —
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
Final Thoughts
It’s easy to get stuck in the constant loop of finding what’s next! And by pursuing what is next, you’d miss out on what’s in front of you. You’d be making yourself part of a rat race which is not how humans are supposed to live.
Train your mind that it’s ok if there’s nothing that you need to do right now.
Give yourself the permission to do nothing and you will have the strength to do everything.
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