Positive rest

Whenever I make myself do this, I feel very much perkier. Age immaterial. It's merely a good habit. But you have to promise yourself not to think of the next thing you've got to do, must do, hurry up and do - call a halt! Ignore all the 'do's and just relax. If only for a few minutes. You could call it a short-form meditation perhaps.

On a hectic day
Slip away from the fray
Just take a moment of leisure
This simple ploy
Can lengthen your life
Cut stress and strife
To bring back a fresh sense of joy.

After all, our brains never stop. Well, some days it seems as if they have, but that's a different matter! Most of us are attached to our screens of one kind or another for an alarming number of hours per day. Latest data, I believe, if you're working in an office is about six and a half hours. Not counting home time with television, phones, tablets…it's a lot. 'Overwhelm' is a word now frequently used.

Personally, I often need a reminder to quit whilst I'm ahead. That expression 'Take your time' can have a new significance. I'm trying my best these days to take 'my' time. Which might give me a real problem if it's radically different from everyone else's!