| Here are some certain advices: | | | | which causes it. |
| Learn to relax. Relax the mind especially by | | | | Breathe softly and unhurriedly, and do not try to |
| cultivating a sense of humour. Do not meet life | | | | think about anything, not even about nothing. But |
| with a tense mind. You have not mastered the | | | | just let your mind go. That is real relaxation. Take |
| art of living till you have learned to play with life, | | | | it easy. Look at things just as children do, naturally |
| to let your energies run freely and easily in | | | | without anxiety, without wanting to embrace all |
| meeting its demands. Fix a time when you drop | | | | the details. Otherwise your mind will be producing |
| business cares, and keep to it. Scientists have | | | | ideas which will cause tension and strain. Hear near |
| been studying the effect of laughter on human | | | | or distant noise. Retain consciousness of it for a |
| beings and have found that it has a profound and | | | | few seconds. Or even notice the lack of noise. |
| instantaneous effect on virtually every important | | | | Open up the sense of hearing without forced |
| organ in the human body. | | | | attention. Repeat these acts five times each hour |
| Laughter reduces health-sapping tensions relaxes | | | | of the day. With these exercises you can calm |
| the tissues and exercises the most vital organs. It | | | | irritation and hypersensitivity to sound. |
| is said that laughter even when forced results in a | | | | Surprisingly in large number of us, has a tired |
| beneficial effect on us both mentally and | | | | and plaintive sound. Some of us are really tired |
| physically. Next time you feel nervous and jittery, | | | | but far more of us are not tired at all, or would |
| indulge in a good laugh. Laughter is the best | | | | not be tired at all unless we had got into a |
| medicine for a long and happy life. He, who laughs, | | | | wretched trick of feeling tired, by following the |
| lasts long. | | | | prevalent habits of vocalisation and expression. |
| By you organizing our work and our time table | | | | The more plaintive you sound, the more plaintive |
| we can organize our mind also, when you | | | | you feel. Colour too has a great psychological |
| organize your mind a sense of power will come | | | | effect on us. To be in the midst of glaring colours |
| to you, and you will soon wonder at the ease | | | | is very tiring. Patients recuperate more readily |
| with which you can handle responsibilities. Your | | | | when there are pastel colours around them. When |
| capacity for work will increase, so it will pleasure | | | | a crisis is past and we can afford to relax. We |
| you, in what you are doing. | | | | usually say that we can breathe with more ease. |
| Life 1s more than meal and body more than | | | | The other way about, if we can breathe easier, |
| raiment,' goes the saying. So if there is anything | | | | we won't get so tense. It was Voltaire who said. |
| persisting in your mind at the close of the day's | | | | 'A good deal of human illness could be cured by |
| work, leave it alone and say, 'I shall deal with you | | | | breathing.' Full breathing, or deep breathing as we |
| tomorrow, not now, and then give yourself to | | | | call it, if done smoothly and rhythmically, has a |
| things that are useful and pleasant. | | | | relaxing effect and is good for health. But forced |
| The only way to relax mind and body is to live | | | | deep breathing has the contrary effect. Relaxed |
| the right way and have the right attitude. | | | | smooth, self rhythmical deep breathing helps relax |
| Don't keep trying to do too much. | | | | the entire body. When your eyes feel strained |
| Don't try to do too much at once. | | | | and the print you are reading appears blurred |
| Don't be too ambitious. | | | | close your eyes take a deep breath and let it out |
| Don't envy other people. | | | | relaxed. Now open your eyes, and you will see |
| Don't expect other people to agree with you and | | | | the print clearly. |
| do things your way. | | | | A warm bath followed by a cold one, is a great |
| Don't expect everybody to like you. | | | | help to relax the entire body. It will also help you |
| But | | | | to sleep better. |
| Give yourself sufficient time. | | | | Leisure and relaxation go hand in hand. |
| Have sensible ambitions. | | | | Leisure is a mental and spiritual attitude and not |
| Be reasonable in what you expect from others. | | | | simply the result of external factors like Spare |
| Be sensible in the way you live. | | | | time a holiday a week-end or vacation. Over and |
| Plan the day ahead. | | | | above everything else, leisure is a condition of |
| Allow yourself a quiet period every day. | | | | soul. Some people think they are busy when |
| Twenty minutes of passive relaxation soon after | | | | they are only nervous, or rather, when, they are |
| a difficult flight made fliers feel quite fresh; | | | | mentally maladjusted. It is more important to rest |
| rhythmic relaxation prevented unpleasant mind. | | | | well than to rest long. When you feel the need of |
| Learn to relax your body, entirely. That is one of | | | | rest, |
| the best ways toward mental relaxation. Form | | | | Raise your feet to hip-level and rest for ten |
| the habit of relaxing mentally by not caring for | | | | minutes. That will refresh you very much. Yoga |
| one way or the other after you have done your | | | | practices calm our over-wrought nerves relax our |
| work. If you form this habit and practice it every | | | | muscles and revolve our organs’ and nerve |
| clay, you need never fear of harming yourself by | | | | centres. |
| working too hard. You'll find, to your surprise, that | | | | Pranayama (the breathing exercise) brings |
| you can work harder than ever, that you have | | | | Oxygen and energy to evenly cell, cleanses the |
| tapped energies you never suspected to exist. | | | | organism by burning up the waste products, |
| Form this habit and you'll never have to worry | | | | expels the toxins; while relaxation· guards against |
| about burning yourself out. | | | | neurasthenia and insomnia. Relaxation of the body |
| The increasing mental and physical tension and | | | | goes hand in hand with relaxation of the mind. |
| strain is the greatest enemy of our society. It | | | | Thus he (the relaxed man) knows how to conjure |
| must learn to relax if it must survive. Relaxation | | | | up mental pictures of peaceful, calm and tranquil |
| means simply the prudent use of our mental and | | | | situations. |
| physical faculties so as to achieve optimum | | | | The obstacles of serenity are not external. They |
| efficiency and skill. Whoever knows how to rest | | | | lie within us. 'If we acquire the art of proper |
| at the right time will double his efficiency and not | | | | self-love we free ourselves from shallow fears |
| waste his health? Therefore enliven yourself with | | | | and learn honestly to face grief and to transcend |
| amusements which will arouse enthusiasm and | | | | it; if we free from immaturity and boldly shoulder |
| prevent depressing memories. | | | | adult responsibility; if we appraise and accept |
| Let your holidays be associated with great public | | | | ourselves as we really are, how then can we fail |
| events. In using leisure hours it is always better to | | | | to create a good life for ourselves. |
| participate actively in some sports or recreational | | | | There are a few very important points for |
| pastime, rather than be a passive spectator, you | | | | relaxed living: ---- |
| can profit more by playing table-tennis for half an | | | | 1. A cold or warm bath after a day's hard work |
| hour than by watching a cricket or tennis match | | | | 2. Physical exercise |
| for two hours. Playing a musical instrument for | | | | 3. Cultivation of a constructive hobby |
| fifteen minutes yields more pleasure through self | | | | 4. Regulation of diet |
| expression than seeing a two-hour film show. A | | | | 5. A kindly heart and a hearty laugh |
| real vacation should rekindle our inner fire. Yet | | | | 6. Free social service and love towards your |
| minutes of vacationing may do us better than a | | | | family friends and neighbours |
| month-long vacation. Half an hour of spontaneous | | | | 7. Avoiding the use of tranquillisers sedatives and |
| self-expression in talking about a hobby with a | | | | toxic substances |
| friend who shares the same interest can refresh | | | | 8. Sound Sleep. |
| us, the secret of relaxation is that if we want to | | | | Try these eight steps to relaxed living and you will |
| relax, we must concern ourselves with the means | | | | always feel at ease, enjoy life. |
| and not the end. What we have to do is not to | | | | Good effects of relaxation: |
| try to relax but to release muscles and muscle | | | | One of the most important steps in t relaxation is |
| groups. This is the easiest and most effective | | | | to learn to think generously and truthfully. |
| method. Do not try to relax. If you strive and | | | | Thoughts of ill-will, of guilt, of fear produce tumult |
| strain to relax the effort will only increase tension. | | | | in the mind. On the contrary, thoughts of good will |
| But a relaxed attitude, which we call patience or | | | | trust confidence and goodness create a spiritual |
| calmness, is very necessary. Start the process of | | | | calm and a bodily relaxation. Since thoughts tend |
| relaxation in the muscle and then immediately shift | | | | to become automatic, healthful and healing |
| your attention to another muscle. The first muscle | | | | thoughts deliberately repeated with persistent |
| will automatically continue its relaxation. So that a | | | | regularity will become natural and constantly fill the |
| comfortable position while standing, sitting or lying | | | | mind with peace. |
| down. When you feel tension, stop your action | | | | |