Take them.
Go someplace else in your head, even if only for a few moments.
Even if it’s in your own home. Make a space to go someplace else.
Go for a walk in a park. Go outside. Play in the rain. Stare out the window for 30 minutes. Take notes. Report the results. Share.
Space out. Stare at a green field, a blue ocean, an angry gray sky. Listen to the rain for 24 minutes. Whether it’s a downpour, or just a steady pitter patter. Learn the difference.
Take a long 18-second whiff when you walk downtown by a restaurant. Watch the laugh scene in Mary Poppins 12 times in a row. Walk through the woods for 6 miles and get lost. Find your zero spot, the stillness. Meditate on the desert…
Often.
Take a mini-vacation.
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Wonderful Insight! I think these are the moments that make the dreary stressful days more managable and these are the moments that are never “a waste.”
Thank you, Caroline Bozzi! I try to live every day sustainably. Some days are harder than others!
I just found this article I thought you would enjoy. I have been thinking about how we usually percieve these moments as a waste of time, when in fact “an intellectual fountain really is spurting.” The article talks about how when we take a mini vacation we are eavesdropping on our unconscious.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/frontal-cortex/2012/06/the-virtues-of-daydreaming.html#entry-more
Awesome article! Thanks for the insight. The idea of ‘eavesdropping on my unconscious’ makes me want to invest heavily in a hammock, just in case…