Wednesday, April 16, 2008

To Relax: A difficult but necessary task. (Draft II)

We may all have experienced how difficult is to relax sometimes or may have heard people talking around about this fact, what makes of it a common problem nowadays. At the same time, it is well known that relaxing is necessary to our mental and physical health.
Eventhough we all know how important is to rest and to allow our attention and effort to become weaker, this vital necessity is often left aside. For some people, this occurs simple because they voluntary avoid to relax, and the aim of this behaviour may be to cope with the fear of losing control of situations. In this way they can turn up living their lives with a constant preasure that they put upon themselves; all this originated in a wrong idea that if they relax situations may escape from their hands.
Besides this intentional behaviour, not allow ourselves to relax can occur unintentionally as well. In many occations we end up making too much trouble of problems that do not deserve our full attention. This leads to an unnecessary waste of energy that could be invested in some other really important issues. It can also happen that we ruin moments that we were suppose to use for relaxation because we cannot just stop the rush of thoughts inside our minds.
To find difficulties in relaxing is a current problem nowadays. People generally use time that should be destined to resting and enjoying themselves to continue worring about some unsolved problem or task that they haven't finished yet. We all live so fast, so stressed and anxious thatt we even tend to think that to relax is a waste of time. A solution may be to accept thatt we are not machines and that relaxation is something healthy, especially after work or a big effort. To relax should be then, another activity included in our timetables, and not just left aside until we find extra time to spend in doing that.

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