People need rest, relaxation and entertainment. From time to time, we need time to think about things, organize our thoughts and enjoy life. But for a person who always complains about the limited time, the joy of life seems out of reach.
Slowing down is actually a process of saving your strength. But that doesn't mean watching TV plays or shopping because of boring time. The first thing you may learn is how to face boredom. As the saying goes, "things go bad before they get better."
Don't slow down too fast.
If you are an accelerator and want to try to slow down, you may suddenly and impulsively slow down, hoping to see immediate results. Change takes time, and it is never an easy task, and there will inevitably be a stage of inadaptability. After retirement, many people suddenly calm down from the original busy life, and usually have a sense of loss. Being too active is a kind of resistance to boring life, and the fear of slowing down the pace of life is actually the fear of really facing yourself.
Indulging in work may be the only modern addiction that society can forgive. In recent years, the United States has published many books about workaholics. In Japan, there is even a term to describe karoshi: karoshi.
If we leave it alone, work will devour our lives. Work is of course necessary, and the key is to learn to grasp this degree. This degree is up to you. Enthusiasm for life is a positive attitude to realize self-worth, but when motivation turns into pressure and forces you to work long hours, it also means that your body and mind are being destroyed.
As early as 1940, the German writer Joseph Pi Fu's book Leisure: the Foundation of Culture warned people not to let society enter a world he called "working for all". We all need leisure to relax, create, get along with others and learn how to think. When we worship the principles and habits of life that we take for granted, it is also the time when our culture slowly tends to be destroyed.
It is puzzling that in the United States, where material life is so rich, so many people complain about their dissatisfaction with life. When everything in life is related to work, it is impossible to be perfect. This also verifies another old saying: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
Slowing down can make you unique to some extent, which is a rare gift for yourself or others. At the same time, you may be able to experience the feeling of having fun with others. You don't need to start this journey alone, get on our deceleration bus, and let all of us help you realize this transition and realize a relaxed and harmonious life.
If you can choose whether to work long hours (if you are your own boss), that's fine. But if you work long hours for fear of being demoted or losing your job, then this healthy recipe is tailor-made for you. Slow down, even a small step, can make you ask for less pressure and more patience. If slowing down can make you have a more tolerant heart, you will be more lovely than now.
A slow experience
The control of time and life lies in yourself. You can think of time as an investment. So take a few minutes now, let's imagine and experience the slow life together:
If you leave the bright sky to yourself, what will this day be like? How would you feel? In this experience, you don't need to do anything valuable, and you don't need to do things well during this time.
What is emphasized here is that this is just a thinking experience. Just sit and think about it: what it feels like to wake up in the morning, what you will do at noon, where you want to go, and what it will feel like to be alone. Try to imagine how you will spend this half day. Remember, there is no such thing as achieving a goal or achieving a goal. You can do whatever you want with the person you want to be with. Can you imagine how you felt at that time? How did you feel after that?
Slow moment
If the above slow experience only takes a few minutes to realize, would you like to spend an hour to slow down your life? Can you imagine an hour without any outside interference?
I once visited a team of management consultants with high organizational planning ability to investigate whether any of them worked or lived according to unplanned time. The result is zero. What if you spend an hour living a slow-paced life? The one-hour lunch break during work was originally formed to let everyone rest, supplement nutrition and restore physical strength. But this concept has gradually changed and disappeared in many office situations. When you treat this precious one-hour rest time like other important work tasks, you will find that it is not so difficult to realize it. Make an appointment with yourself. Think about how to plan this hour. Still can't help but take the time to delete the work list in the notebook and see how much work has been completed today? Or ask yourself: Do you have the ability to slow down? Have you tried? Does taking care of yourself make you feel guilty?
Slow mood
Take your time. Being able to show your calmness and calmness under pressure will definitely benefit from it. Look before you leap. When you get lost, it is more efficient to stop and take out a map and study the route than to look for it without a clue. When we are under too much pressure, careful consideration before action also reflects our grasp of our impulse self-control ability. As Nobel Prize in Literature winner Rudyard Kipling wrote in his poem "If" for his son who is about to pay for joining the army, if you are in a confused state, you can be calm and not follow others. It's not easy, but slowing down doesn't mean you're lazy.
Slow down your chewing.
How many of you have been taught by your mother not to swallow food but to chew slowly? Children eat while running and playing. The slow food movement originated in Italy is a boycott of fast food. Of course, this involves another theme about local culture. The current definition is that from the digestive system, slow eating can promote weight loss. Chewing slowly contributes to the release of food nutrients. It is easy for people to overeat, but chewing slowly can help you control your appetite. In America, we all complain about how full we are after dinner today. There is no denying that food, like oil, gives people motivation to move forward, but you may eat more and faster when you are alone or while working. When we swallow food, we don't give our stomach a good chance to digest it, or at this time, our brain doesn't receive the signal that we are actually full. One way to train yourself to slow down is to take a break between work and study, eat less and eat more meals, or sit down and eat with others to give your stomach a time to digest.
Slow down.
If you have experience in lifting dumbbells in the gym, you know that it is much more difficult to lift them slowly than to lift them back and forth quickly. The purpose of lifting dumbbells is to exercise and keep fit. However, in daily life, people are doing repetitive things just like dealing with things, and it seems that the more the better. But I don't know, in another way, slow down and don't rush for success. What you want can be achieved faster. Kent Chin, the founder of Super Slow Muscle, tried to invent a set of exercises to help students burn fat through super slow speed, so as to achieve the effect of losing weight quickly in a short time. I have been insisting on 12 minutes slow exercise for many years: 18 slow and gentle qigong movements help me keep a calm mind at all times. Very simple, pay attention to balance and exercise the toughness of the body. Personally, if I want to achieve faster fitness, I will slow down more. When we stop, we observe more. Paying attention to your breathing can actually be called a simple exercise. Yes, you can cultivate the habit of slowing down by quietly observing your breathing. Are there any exercises that are easier to operate than this?
Multitasking workload
"Multitasking is a sign of moral weakness." Of course, this is a joke. To some extent, we must do several things at the same time. The human body is full of electrochemical reactions, so we need to keep breathing, thinking and examining our internal and external environment. However, we can also try to do less things at the same time, so as to focus on the things at hand. When driving, if we want to drive safely, we choose not to make phone calls, listen to the radio, chat with passengers and just concentrate on driving. Slowing down can teach us how to pay more attention to what is happening around us.
Cultivate attention
Slowing down can help us focus on what we are doing. Just as the principle of concentration advocated by Zen Buddhism, slowing down can lead us into this field, or the flow zone proposed by Mihaly Chixson Mihaly (Mihaly Chixson Mihaly's flow theory: a feeling of fully devoting one's mental energy to an activity). Try to walk slowly, answer questions slowly and speak slowly. Does this make you look embarrassed? How can it be?
Let's start now.
Personal energy, attention and time are limited. By slowing down, we can make full use of all this. Slowing down is a counterintuitive idea, sometimes elusive, but no matter how reasonable it sounds, there is no need to act out of tune with others. However, you don't have to feel lonely. When you want to experience the benefits of slowing down and are not sure how to get rid of the habit of accelerating addiction, take our local train, which will give you the help you want.