Managing Stress
What is your relationship with time?
Who knew? Under the bright skies of Portugal stress approaches the Tagus.
For those who know the stress, time is one that presses and oppresses. It's like if we ran out of air as to inspire to expire, a tension that freezes us where we should fluidity. So what to do when we no longer recognizes the urgency to produce, organize, meet ... ? What to do when the clock seems to have gone mad? There is only one thing: stop. Pretty tense but taking headache because when you run long been afraid of collapsing before the finish line. Exactly where is the line?
The finish line is perhaps not what we believe: the file to loop, to hold the meeting, to organize the holiday ... Is it not rather our wellbeing, our health, balance, our efficiency, continuity ... ? It's a bit like running a marathon is a programming to 200 meters. The strategy can not be the same. You have to manage resources, keep enough when we need to accelerate, slow down when we take the lead, invent when we loose shoelace, the difference between the tests and the end stage of the race.
We're not all the same riders and we do not we run the same races. There are those who are comfortable with the slow step and draw their way, take the time to be present and are not afraid not immobility. There are those who treat a steady pace, one after the other priorities. There are also those who love speed, which is to be drunk in a hurry, for whom everything goes fast and fun to accelerate. We need to follow our pace but sometimes we have an obligation to change it. However, this flexibility is only possible if we may from time to time we revitalize our own tempo. Only then will we find our creativity because we finally have space to breathe.
Intuitively we know our rhythm, that makes that deep down we are intensely calm and stable but we streamlining for fear of not being in the race or sometimes win. Circumstances (education, business, family values ...) we are also pushing to change gears at the point of forgetting our own music, that which makes us want to dance.
Whether you want peace, efficiency, success, creativity, dare to dance at your own pace to gain flexibility. Dance with time rather than trying to manage it. Since time escapes us, not trying to catch it.
Exercise of the Day: Visualization Qi Gong (5 minutes)
1) Sit on the edge of a chair / chair legs parallel, feet flat on the floor, hands flat on knees, spine straight (chin slightly back), as head suspended from the ceiling by a thread, eyes are half closed. Direct your consciousness to the Dan Tian is a point (energy center) two fingers below the navel.
2) Balance the torso back and forth softly about twenty times then twenty times from right to left ... SLOWLY ... to feel that anchor what the Dan Tian (2 fingers below the navel)
3) Imagine a bright ball or not moving the Dan Tian (2 fingers below the navel) to the perineum.
4) Now :
- when you INSPIRE (nose gently) you imagine you down the imaginary ball of energy DAN TIAN (2 fingers below the navel) to the perineum.
- when you BREATHE (nose gently) you imagine you made up the energy ball perineum to the Dan Tian.
5) You have 20 full breaths and normally you should feel a little more relaxed.
If you are interested in Qi Gong: " Discovering Qigong " Yves Requena. A very good book to start when you have no time to attend classes.
Otherwise, a meal with friends, a nice movie, a walk aimlessly, photos that make you dream, the smile of a man or a woman who crosses the inner smile .... also work perfectly well.
Nathalie Martinez-Vogelsinger
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