With the end of the vacation period, the luminous, warm season of sharing and complicity comes to an end, of reconnecting with the friends that we see from year to year, in the same places, in the places of each one's soul. The parade of beautiful, flowing summer clothes ends and, in the early morning and late afternoon, we already want that little jacket or sweater, sneakers or loafers, instead of the bare shoulders and feet, with which we enjoy ourselves in the summer months.
Days and nights without hours, random meals, when and how we want, the laughter released in the air without any tension or embarrassment, the loose and flexible rules, are once again contradicted, transforming themselves again, into the formality of jobs that swallow us at least two-thirds of the day!
We try to maintain the rejuvenated and relaxed air that this beneficial interruption of a year of work gives us, but we quickly find ourselves pressured by the pace and demands of the work functions that each one performs.
With a less stuffed bag, as there was also greater benevolence in spending, we try to keep replenishing our energies, acquiring one or another piece that gives us a different touch to our clothing and even highlights the brownish skin tone in which we dress. bathing in the sea and sun, whether on the beach, in the mountains or in the countryside. Why not, at Retry, taking a peek at its variety of genres, colors and the like, associating us with a good for us and for this world, which quickly and seriously we see moving away from its healthy constitution of a green planet.
Green also balances us, as it designates health and physical and mental well-being, which is what we need to maintain throughout the months of the seasons that await us with their professional and family demands. Children and young people are returning to schooling, with all the logistics that this entails and the availability of parents in their educational follow-up, parents who are often exhausted in their professions due to inhuman demands, in which they go to great lengths to keep themselves up to date. side of your children.
Every year, in the period after the holidays, it is natural to look at the start of that new year, at a professional and family level, and think to ourselves that we are going to organize ourselves better, that we are going to achieve goals that we have not achieved so far, that we are going to unfold further more between work, family and our interests, as if we could magically do it. However, over the first few months and quickly, all these projects fade away and we quickly fall back into the usual routine, in which sometimes, half dead from tiredness, we just push our obligations, without a trace of motivation or happiness.
So what can we do to counteract this exhausting decline? Let's start by establishing one or two objectives to be achieved that actually imply some change that contributes to maintaining the gratification as opposed to permanent wear and tear. Let's start by choosing a different activity that satisfies us and relieves us of daily tension and that, when we think that we are going to do it, we feel pleasure. It could be something as easy and economical as listening to music. Take a little time each day, staying in a comfortable place, listening to your favorite music, preferably alone, without interruptions. It has been scientifically proven that music produces Dopamine, the hormone that helps fight stress and control emotions. Pythagoras used music to lower his anger and develop intelligence. In terms of health, it is confirmed that it accelerates post-operative recovery; fights the pain and anxiety of pre-mothers; restores brain damage when there are injuries. Robert Monroe discovered that listening to music between 100 and 150 Hertz develops synchrony between the two cerebral hemispheres; as well as memory and concentration.
If, however, you don't like music, but you like to walk, set aside an hour or half an hour a day to go for a walk, using that space of time to enjoy the area where you like to walk or to take company and be able to talk relaxed about themes of your preference. Certainly, that a little bit of time, with someone who fulfills you, who brings you good energy, who helps you to think or feel life in a positive way, always ends up strengthening and enriching you, which happens mutually, will become even more rewarding and stimulating on a relational and affective level. The human relationship presupposes sharing, complicity and reciprocity.
You will also be able to develop a hobbie of your liking, like writing, painting, sewing and who knows what else, letting your work grow a little more every day and stimulating you to think with that good excitement, that although you have to interrupt that day, the next day it will continue until its end in which you will feel fulfilled.
She'll say I don't have time"... but yes, believe me that if you take the first step to break the routine, for even a few minutes, something new is reborn inside you, giving you much more energy. I was referring to the fact that she used the time when her son had class at the language institute to go for a walk, instead of sitting in the car waiting or taking the opportunity to go shopping or take care of any other matter. favor of herself and her health.When she returned home, she felt calm, with the proper distance from her work day, being able to focus more energy on her family.
We can create a positive organization, in the sense of rewarding ourselves and not a routine organization that we have been following for years and years, which seems to grant us security, but which leads us to sheer wear and tear.
You can also, when you get home, change your clothes for a more comfortable one and instead of running to the gym, run back from the gym, do some stretching, in a room alone or with whoever wants to accompany you, relaxing, leaving soft background music and for at least half an hour, feel that you have returned to your space, to your tranquility and to your people. Space in which silence or just calm communication or humor or joy are accepted.
Ready for another fresh start?
Try to introduce some difference that is pleasant for you, not mattering the quantity, but the quality of your return, of what you manage to make yourselves feel, always in the sense of greater tranquility, well-being and physical and mental comfort, that is, the your own balance, which will always be different for each one of you, but precious in your life! And that way, don't forget that we have to be tolerant towards the differences of others, working on them, so that they enrich us.
