The Lotus Project : Do You Want To Add 1 Hour A Day To Your Life?

Do You Want To Add 1 Hour A Day To Your Life?

Experts say; We must rest before we get tired, then we add one hour a day to our life.

But How Do We Relax In This Noisy And Demanding World?

One writer Ernest Rossi has formulated a “20 minute rule”, which is based on the theory of ultradian rhythms.

Rossi suggested, and indeed practices the pattern of working for 90 minutes and then taking a 20 minutes break.

During breaks

Relax in various moments. Let your body go soft like an old sock or you can imagine a cat. Have you ever seen a cat sleeping under the chair or on top of a cabinet?

If so, both droop like a damp newspaper. Observe the lazy napping cat.Be like one.
Always work in a convenient position. The tightness in the body bring about aching shoulders and uptight weariness.

Lie flat on a hard floor whenever you feel tired. Stretch as far as you can. Roll around if you want to. A good hard floor is better to relax on than a soft mattress or a comfortable sofa. Gives more support. Perfect for your spine.

If its impossible to lie down, then you can accomplish the same result sitting down in a chair. A hard, upright chair is perfect for relaxing. Sit on a chair like a stiff Egyptian Pharaoh, let your palm rest on top of your thighs.

Thinking nothing, doing nothing.

Close your eyes. Sigh. Take slow deep breaths from your nose. Hold it for 5 seconds and slowly release the air through your mouth. Repeat several times.

Stretch as far as you can and yawn as if you just woke up.

Bored To Death?

Yes this could have a double meaning because literally, boredom causes excessive fatigue that could lead to serious health conditions. Yes, even death.

Joseph E. Barmack, Ph,D., Published in the archives of Psychology a report of some of his experiments showing how boredom produces fatigue. These test showed that the blood pressure of the body and the consumption of oxygen actually decreases when the person is bored, and the whole metabolism picks up

immediately as soon as he begins to feel interest and pleasure in his work.

According to Better Health Channel; Each year, around 1.5 million people see their doctor about fatigue. Fatigue is a symptom, not a condition. For many people, fatigue is caused by a combination of lifestyle, social, psychological and general well being issues rather than an underlying medical condition.

According to Dr Mercola;

Researchers analyzed questionnaires completed between 1985 and 1988 by more than 7,500 London civil servants. The civil servants were asked if they had felt bored at work during the previous month.

The researchers then tracked down how many of the participants had died by April 2009.

those who reported they had been very bored were two and a half times more likely to die of a heart problem than those who hadn’t reported being bored.

What is fatigue caused by boredom?

"When you’re bored, almost anything else can be more attractive than what you’re doing," says Gordon Logan, PhD, a psychology professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.

Logan's tip: Give yourself little rewards, like a coffee or a favorite snack, for staying on task for a specific period of time.

In most situations, fatigue is caused by the lifestyle choices we make example; smoking, drinking, a poor diet, too little exercise, overeating, and plain old lack of sleep. Fatigue may also accompany loneliness or boredom.

Oprah Winfrey—A meditation advocate recently named as one of the most powerful celebrity of 2013 by Forbes — has said she sits in stillness for 20 minutes, twice a day.

After a meditation “I walked away feeling fuller than when I’d come in. Full of hope, a sense of contentment, and deep joy. Knowing for sure that even in the daily craziness that bombards us from every direction, there is — still — the constancy of stillness. Only from that space can you create your best work and your best life.”

Training your body to relax fully will tranquil the mind and prepare you for the meditative stage, thus achieving calmness and re invigoration.

On returning to your work or task after that 20 minutes, you will see things new and deal with them quickly and easily, as the mind and body are prepared to climb up to top performance. You are good to go again for the next 3 to 4 hours.