Stressed(e), tired(e), excited (e)? Do not get eaten by the everyday stress, take a right decision, put yourself in Zen.
"The Zen is a refuge that man has always been a refuge of peace and happiness that instantly appears when you put it into practice, "explained Master Kosen Thibaut, a disciple of Master Deshimaru *. Set aside a little time for you, just for you during the weekend, the week after the children are asleep, or at lunchtime.
Listen
The music is an integral part of our lives, our emotions. According to the texts of traditional Chinese medicine, energy sounds aimed at various organs. So our whole being is affected. Wind noise, singing birds, cascading, resonate deeply within us and awaken an emotion archaic brings us back to our ancestral relationship with nature. They are carriers of relaxation and healing.
Gardening
Take the air in a green, hands in the earth, with the reward, the color of a flower, the tenderness of a tree, what is more relaxing ? Work in the garden is to please its neurons, they rest and your mind can wander and finally, you forget your worries! The garden benefits the whole organism because it has a beneficial effect on the conservation of muscle mass, reducing risk of diabetes,accidents cardiovascular and osteoporosis.
Breathe
This is the first instrument of rest and relaxation. Breathe evil is dirty. It is the only one of our vegetative functions on which we can act consciously. Lie down, close your eyes, breathe deeply and slowly. Let the body rest on the points of support: feet, legs, head? Place your hands on your stomach, start breathing in three steps: inflate the abdomen and chest, then the top of the bronchi. Repeat five to ten times, in the subway, at your desk, in your bed, concentrating on the movement of the abdomen.
Laugh
Laugh your lungs, it's good against the stress. The children know they laugh an average three hundred times a day, adults fifty? Laughing to breathe more deeply, which relaxes the body, but it also produces its own opiates, called endorphins, which cause a feeling of well-being. In addition, it increases the effectiveness of the immune system. One minute of laughter equals 45 minutes of relaxation, provides the French neurologist Henri Rubenstein.
Stretch
This increases the heart rate, activate circulation, raise your body temperature.Sit on the floor, legs stretched wide apart, raise your arms up over head while inhaling. Exhale as you lean forward from the hips, bring the hands, chest and head towards the ground. This yoga posture tones the abdomen and has an effect calming the nervous system.
Rejuvenate
At night, our body is recovering and manufactures of essential molecules. The pituitary gland decreases the cholesterol in the blood, thus recharging energy and protein? Sleep is the champion of the remedies that lead to well-being.Prepare your sleep, treat yourself from time to time, a good bath relaxingessential oils, but with no electric light a candle, it changes the whole atmosphere. And why not some music without forgetting some pschitt trigger spray on the pillow?
Move
Physical activity is excellent for relaxation. You are not obliged to fifteen lengths of the pool or around your neighborhood while on the run amid the pollution and horns? No, every day, walk! Do not be seduced by the bus arrives, the elevator that you tend buttons, through the corridors of the subway which takes you to a change. Do it on foot. Walk 40 minutes a day.
Get a massage
The massage improves blood and lymph circulation, promotes better oxygenation, eliminates toxins, increases lung capacity, improves sleep quality and health of our largest organ, the skin. Why not treat yourself to a budget Zen 70? per month for an hour massage? Between hot stones and Ayurvedic sesame oil?
Eat Zen
A good diet not only fill the stomach, it also nourishes the soul. Of foodcomplete, of course, but also a dish of pasta, bananas for serotonin, which puts in a good mood, cilantro and parsley for linalool who hunts the dark thoughts, ginger, nutmeg and essential vitamin cocktails dried fruit.
Manage your time
Blow, do nothing, we dream, but it's impossible. Wrong! Examine your daily activities, are they all important? Keep essential and eliminate those that eat away your time, remember picking up the phone occasionally to breathe. Make sorting your life, your relationships, your habits, your feelings. You will feel lighter. Yet to try meditation, yoga or tai chi, and especially to restrain your ego take you seriously, but remember that you are not the center of the world, only a small part? But Zen!
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