How difficult is to relax? (Draft I)

Many of us may have experienced how difficult is to relax. And at the same time we all know how necessary is to rest, and to allow our attention and effort to become weaker. What currently happens is that this necessity is normally left aside in many times, because of the fear of loosing control of situations. In consequence, we can turn up living in a constant preassure that we put ourselves on us, just not to allow situations to scape from our hands.

This is wrong common thought, that affects almost every human being, based on the idea that if we torture ourself thinking about somenthing, we will control it and it will have the outcome that we wish. If not, if we forget and relax, the situation can develop through it ows course. And in fact is this second idea which is the correct one, eventhough it may be hard to believe, and not the first one. Things will end up in what they have to, and not in what we whant. It is truth that we can modify the future of situations, but not of all of them, and not in a complete fully way. And this is hard to accept.

In many occations we end up making to much trouble of problems which do not deserve our full attention.This leds to an unnecessary waste of energy which we could invest in more important issues. Sometimes we are not conscious of how much we ruin moments that we were suppose to use for relaxation because we cannot stop the rush of thoughts inside our minds. And we can end up unintentionally using time that should be destine to resting and enjoying ourselves, to continue worrying about an unsolved problem or a duty that we have not finished yet.

All this behaviour is quite common in the actual times. We live so fast, so stressed, so anxious that we even tend to think that to relax is a waste of time. We should accept that we are not machines and that to relax is something healthy, especially after work or doing a big effort. To relax should be another activity included in our timetables and not something left aside 'till extra time appear to be spent in doing so. Because that will be to rest important to the activity of relaxation.