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Ongoing stress without relief is a well known contributing factor to
illness. Unending work overload without time to regenerate increases
fatigue, the risk of accidents and at the same time, depresses our immune
system. Even at home we can still be preoccupied by the stress of work or
relationships. Reduce the damaging effects of stress and mobilize health
and joy when you DO IT NOW.
How to Do It Now*:
Like a battery we can run ourselves down and need to take time to
recharge. Carry positive feelings and energy into your work setting when
you give do some of the following (schedule time without guilt so that you
feel refreshed):
- Take time for relaxing, time for holidays, time for being with other
people whom you like.
- Take time for pleasure reading, exercise, talking to family members.
- Take time for being with your kids now (you can never make up for the
time when they were young!!!)
- Take time for enjoying nature, discovering the world, star gazing,
learning something new.
- Take time for dancing, time for singing.
- Take time to reflect on all of your good qualities.
- Take time to think about all of the good qualities of your loved ones.
- Take time to buy a simple secret gift for a co-worker (fresh fruit often
does the trick on a hectic afternoon).
Owe yourself a break---you've worked hard---so take the rewards. If you
procrastinate it might be too late some day! What can be more necessary
and urgent than to live now--to enjoy your life and share it with the ones
you love??? If you still find some excuses why everything else would be
so important that you cant postpone it - do the following:
- Take time to visit people in a retirement home or a hospice and talk to
them. Let them narrate from their past (old people like to do so) and
ask them what they would change if they had a second chance or if they
could do so now.
- Imagine it could be you that has only very limited time to live (and one
of these days it will be like that as nobody until now has survived
life).
*We thank Mag. Monika Fuhs for this tip.