Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king’s horses and all the kings men
couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
Had Humpty Dumpty tried to achieve balance rather than total collapse this traumatic
episode might never have happened.
A certain amount of tension is necessary to live and respond to one’s environment.
Without tension in your body you couldn’t sit or stand. Any living organism demonstrates
a give and take. Homeostasis is a term used to describe the body’s tendency toward equilibrium
and fine-tuning to maintain necessary parameters for life. It requires a certain amount of tension.
However, most people’s tension levels are dangerously too high. Many people operate under a daily
excess of tension which drains one’s energy and affects you on all levels, producing physical tightness,
emotional anxiety, mental confusion and spiritual isolation. Therefore rest and relaxation are an integral
part of a healthy lifestyle; perhaps the most important.
As you go through your daily activities, it is so easy to forget and forego
relaxation. There is always something that needs to be done. In fact, many
people have actually forgotten how to truly relax. The answer is not in sleeping
all the time or always being carefree, but rather a need for balance between
relaxation and tension; rest and action.
Relaxation is a state of comfort-of-being.
It is being awake and aware. It is fully functioning with acceptance, focus and
peace of mind. Rest is a state of letting go. In a physiological sense, it is a
time when the body is able to concentrate on growth, repair and rejuvenation on
a daily basis. This usually occurs in a sleep state. Oftentimes within a 24 hour
period, the body incurs a certain amount of deterioration and micro-damage.
Energy runs down, and you must take time to let the battery recharge. If these parts of
your life are out of balance eventually you feel chronically worn out, sore
from muscular aches and pains, lacking vibrancy, and probably unhappy. This
all-too-common scenario drains your energy, lowers your resistance and
ultimately shortens your life. Unfortunately we are a culture geared to
symptomatic quick relief rather than making lifestyle changes and as a result,
find unnatural ways to try to achieve relaxation and invigoration. Who are we
really kidding? What can you do about it?
The first step is to give oneself permission to relax. Then you must develop an awareness
of where the stress and tension is coming from. And determine why it’s there. What causes excessive
tension and stress in you?
Financial pressures and challenges?
Unfulfilled expectations about someone else?
Unfulfilled expectations about oneself? Someone else's expectations of
you? Can you do something about it? Where is your stress and tension?
What form does it take? How is it in the form of body stress and tension?
How is it in the form of emotional stress and tension?
How is it in the form of mental stress and tension?
While some tension problems may require professional assistance, most can be handled by oneself.
It’s true that one cannot change everything but much is within your power to readjust. Start by
checking yourself out. Monitor yourself as you go through your day. At home. At the office. As you drive.
Do yourself a big favor. Rest and relax. You deserve it. And you need it!
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king’s horses and all the kings men
couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
Had Humpty Dumpty tried to achieve balance rather than total collapse this traumatic
episode might never have happened.
A certain amount of tension is necessary to live and respond to one’s environment.
Without tension in your body you couldn’t sit or stand. Any living organism demonstrates
a give and take. Homeostasis is a term used to describe the body’s tendency toward equilibrium
and fine-tuning to maintain necessary parameters for life. It requires a certain amount of tension.
However, most people’s tension levels are dangerously too high. Many people operate under a daily
excess of tension which drains one’s energy and affects you on all levels, producing physical tightness,
emotional anxiety, mental confusion and spiritual isolation. Therefore rest and relaxation are an integral
part of a healthy lifestyle; perhaps the most important.
As you go through your daily activities, it is so easy to forget and forego
relaxation. There is always something that needs to be done. In fact, many
people have actually forgotten how to truly relax. The answer is not in sleeping
all the time or always being carefree, but rather a need for balance between
relaxation and tension; rest and action.
Relaxation is a state of comfort-of-being.
It is being awake and aware. It is fully functioning with acceptance, focus and
peace of mind. Rest is a state of letting go. In a physiological sense, it is a
time when the body is able to concentrate on growth, repair and rejuvenation on
a daily basis. This usually occurs in a sleep state. Oftentimes within a 24 hour
period, the body incurs a certain amount of deterioration and micro-damage.
Energy runs down, and you must take time to let the battery recharge. If these parts of
your life are out of balance eventually you feel chronically worn out, sore
from muscular aches and pains, lacking vibrancy, and probably unhappy. This
all-too-common scenario drains your energy, lowers your resistance and
ultimately shortens your life. Unfortunately we are a culture geared to
symptomatic quick relief rather than making lifestyle changes and as a result,
find unnatural ways to try to achieve relaxation and invigoration. Who are we
really kidding? What can you do about it?
The first step is to give oneself permission to relax. Then you must develop an awareness
of where the stress and tension is coming from. And determine why it’s there. What causes excessive
tension and stress in you?
Financial pressures and challenges?
Unfulfilled expectations about someone else?
Unfulfilled expectations about oneself? Someone else's expectations of
you? Can you do something about it? Where is your stress and tension?
What form does it take? How is it in the form of body stress and tension?
How is it in the form of emotional stress and tension?
How is it in the form of mental stress and tension?
While some tension problems may require professional assistance, most can be handled by oneself.
It’s true that one cannot change everything but much is within your power to readjust. Start by
checking yourself out. Monitor yourself as you go through your day. At home. At the office. As you drive.
Do yourself a big favor. Rest and relax. You deserve it. And you need it!
