Empowerment For Your Health: The Value of Resting the Body and Mind
The Benefit Of Doing Nothing|Rest Is One Key To Being Calm Under Pressure | How to Achieve Positive Peak Performance | Parents & Rest | How Couples Can Combat Stress
Editorial By DR Rawson
What’s driving you? Is it your family, your business, your internal clock, or a deep-seated desire? Whatever it is, remember, you're the one in control. You may not have even considered this, as it’s a constant in your life. But it's worth taking a moment to reflect on. Our mission of Personal Empowerment is to delve deep into the reasons behind our actions and whether they’re constraining or enriching our lives. True Personal Empowerment is not a gift that can be given but a state that you must actively claim for yourself.
Let’s begin with rest, not end, but begin. Please follow along as we show you how to rest your body and mind. Be sure to check out this week’s tips as well. Thanks for joining us for this week’s edition.
The Benefit of Doing Nothing
By Dr. Gabriella Kőrösi
Imagine the moment when your body and mind can fully connect at the highest level of relaxation and peace. In this state, your cells regenerate and rejuvenate, and your mind is able to make connections that bring many “aha” moments into your life. Your mind and body are at ease. No stress or discomfort stands in your way.
How does this picture-perfect moment look for you?
some people might think that they need to go on a vacation to get to this state. Do in-depth meditation, practice mindfulness, or go to the beach. Many of these events while might be able to provide some relaxation they are still an action of doing something.
To have the most benefit and rest for your body, mind, and spirit simply do nothing at all. Of course, you can do nothing at all wherever you like. I recommend nature, as nature has many wonderful healing properties. It is important to take time for ourselves and step out of the busy everyday schedule and enjoy just being with not looking at the past, present or future, not thinking about tasks and next steps. Just being in the nothingness of humanity.
Rest Is One Key To Being Calm Under Pressure
By DR Rawson - The Possibilist
One of the few things I brought back from being in the military during a war was the ability to sleep (rest) anytime and anywhere I could. I could lean against a door casing or even sleep while someone was talking. Working forty-two hours on and forty-two off for months at a time will do that to you.
Once a civilian and then as a business owner, I didn’t know when to turn it off, I couldn’t. I didn’t want to fail, I couldn’t let my wife, my young son, or those who worked for me down. I also found that for the first couple of companies, I rarely slept. There is and was always something that needed to be done or that was keeping me up at night. I was always worried about something at the wrong time.
The biggest business lesson, or life lesson, I ever learned was to slow my mind and be in the moment. Can you imagine trying to defuse a bomb and thinking about a sports game you were going to attend or about the squabble with a child overworked while trying to defuse a bomb? Life Lesson: Be in the moment.
Clear Your Mind
I was never very successful at this. About the best I could do was focus on the moment. Improving it. Making it more real. That change brought clarity and focus. Someone once said to me, “I’ve never been around someone so intense and focused.” It’s because I’m in the moment. You may find that meditation works for you. Don’t dismiss it. Try it.
Benefits
The best benefit I can imagine is to be able to clearly remember a memory made with one of my children or my wife. Because I showed up at the moment, I have many such memories. In business, being in the moment, allowed me, in many cases to outthink the person I was negotiating with in the moment. The benefits are almost too many to count.
Taking Charge
I believe that if you treat yourself better, get your rest (I try to get 4 to 6 hours a night) and if I’m really tired, I’ll take one or two power 30-minute power naps a day. They recharge me. It empowers me to be the best version of myself.
How to Achieve Positive Peak Performance by Learning to Maximize Flow Arts
The secret to effectiveness and productivity by Lewis Harrison
Many factors can influence achieving success, healing, and self-awareness. One of the least recognized and most important is the “flow arts”. Flow Arts is a general term used to describe the intersection of various movement-based disciplines including dance, juggling, fire-spinning, and object manipulation.
The broad category of Flow Arts includes a variety of pursuits that harmonize skill-based techniques (critical thinking) with creative expression and intuitive thinking to achieve a state of present-moment awareness known as Flow*. Common forms of Flow Arts include poi, staff, and nunchaku spinning, hooping, juggling, contact juggling, and fandance. New props and expressions are always emerging as flow artists cross-pollinate with martial arts, yoga, circus, belly dance, and beyond.
Most flow artists start doing Flow Arts because they are fun! Soon they begin to incorporate Play back into other aspects of their lives. Enjoyment is usually the hook, but we soon find many reasons to keep up our practice. The basics of a prop are easy to learn, but the possibilities of moves and personal expression are infinite, and art is a great tool for exploring personal potential. Flow Arts are body-mind activities like Yoga, Tai chi, Somatics, and many others that help practitioners focus their minds at the same time as they hone their physical abilities. Many people describe their flow activity as “moving meditation”.
The Importance of Parental Rest for Healthy Sleep Habits
By: Gabriela Trofin-Tatár
Nowadays, parents often juggle numerous responsibilities, from work to household chores, on top of several extracurricular activities for their children. I am guilty of these too. I see myself struggling every day to sleep earlier. Often, I valued my moments of quiet after the kids went to sleep so much that I prolonged that time for my journaling, writing, or reading and ended up getting too little sleep.
Now, I know it is crucial to prioritize my rest and sleep, and I have been working on this in therapy for almost two years. It turned out it was a learned habit because my parents were also going to sleep later. They usually tried to finish their chores and also have some time together after we went to sleep. So they modeled this low-sleep parenting mode since my brother and I were young.
The lesson I have learned, and quite recently, is that when parents model healthy sleep habits, they improve their well-being and also set a healthy example for their kids. We all know how important sleep is for our cognitive function, emotional regulation, and overall health.
Another thing I noticed in myself is that I am a lot more patient with my kids when I am well-rested, and I see the world in a more positive way. When parents are rested, kids also tend to be calmer around them, somehow mimicking their behavior. Because our children are our mirrors, we just need to pay attention to how they behave around us. I strongly believe that teaching children the importance of healthy sleep begins at home. If we try to establish a consistent sleep schedule for ourselves, not only for our kids, we will manage to instill these values in our children.
Rest also means taking a break from screens as much as possible, being more in nature on the weekends, for example, reading together, practicing mindfulness, or simply discussing the day’s events over a meal. We need more than ever to help our children understand that sleep is not a necessity but a vital component of a healthy lifestyle. Life is too rushed around us. We deserve rest to quiet our minds and to be creative and kind to each other. If we start with ourselves by prioritizing our sleep, our children will also recognize and value the importance of rest.
This is my goal: to help my children learn healthier habits that can last a lifetime. How about you?
How Couples Can Combat Stress and Practice Restful Rituals
By: Libby Shively McAvoy
Stress Is Killing Us, And Our Relationships
In today’s fast-paced world, stress is a common problem, killing us and our relationships. People who are overly stressed find ways to pick their partner apart and find flaws. When stressed, we tend to be nit-picky and more nagging, and no one enjoys being on the receiving end of that behavior.
Our thoughts become distorted when our emotions are elevated, and it causes us to lash out, sometimes at the very people we love the most. Stress from the chaotic world takes a severe toll on relationships, and we see evidence of this in the current divorce rate trends. However, divorce causes more stress and worsens health implications. So now, more than ever, we need solutions. Do you prefer to rest alone or with your partner? There is no wrong solution. But taking care of ourselves also benefits the relationship as a whole.
Solutions for Stress Management and Rest Together As a Couple
Make time for fun activities and possible short weekends away together.
Practice empathy, understanding, and compassion for what you are both experiencing.
Listen with the intent to understand.
Spend time outdoors together.
Allow and encourage alone time for self-care — workouts, baths, time with friends.
Meditate together.
Hug often as it naturally wards off stress hormones and reduces blood pressure.
Spend time with loving, emotionally supportive pets
Final Thoughts
When one or both partners are drained by stress, they have less time and energy for each other. However, there is a beautiful opportunity for support and growing closer during stressful times when we prioritize the relationship, our partner, and our mental and physical needs. It is extremely empowering to help each other through these times, and growing stronger as a couple is extremely rewarding.
Gabriella: A simple hack of life, sometimes to rest just do nothing.
Libby: Couples who play together stay together. Get creative and have fun.
DR: Be in the moment. If you’re at work, be there. If you’re at home be present and actively listen to those around you.
Gabby: By having a healthy sleep schedule as parents, we also teach our kids the value of rest in our lives.
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Thanks for reading,
Dr. Gabriella Kőrösi, Founder
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What can we do to empower ourselves to give our body and mind the rest and healing it needs?
Great essays Gabi. Thanks for posting mine - Lewis