| There's one truth that holds for anywhere you | | | | mantra, breathe out, and repeat.Don't worry |
| might happen to work: most of the time they | | | | if you find it difficult at first to clear |
| have to pay you to be there! You might be | | | | your head: you can't force relaxation, you |
| doing work you absolutely love, and you might | | | | can only guide it. Just keep breathing and |
| think yourself the luckiest person on earth | | | | doing your best to let go. It may help to |
| nine days out of ten, but there will always | | | | visualize something simple: imagine a hand |
| be days--rainy days, hung-over mornings, days | | | | grasping all of your worries, and imagine |
| when you just want to read a good book--when | | | | each finger slowly relaxing its grip and |
| going in to work seems like the last thing in | | | | opening to its full length until the hand is |
| the world you want to do. And even on a good | | | | open, and all of your worries are slipping |
| day, the pace of work can become | | | | away.Keep going for as long as you feel the |
| overwhelming: the lunch rush at a restaurant, | | | | stress. Once you feel relaxed and ready to |
| the first day of a new sale, the last | | | | go back to work, slowly return your breathing |
| paperwork-filled weeks of the fiscal year. | | | | to normal and let go of whatever you've been |
| Combine a general bad mood with a fast-paced, | | | | repeating. Leave your eyes closed for a |
| high-volume work environment, and you've just | | | | minute before opening them, and remain in |
| discovered one of the best recipes for stress | | | | whatever comfortable place you're in for as |
| imaginable.There are a number of solutions to | | | | long as you need to, slowly allowing your |
| workplace stress out there: desk toys, casual | | | | workplace thoughts and concerns to |
| work environments, complicated therapy or | | | | return.You'll find, when you get back to |
| company counselors. However, there's only | | | | work, that what seemed unmanageable just |
| one truly simple, effective remedy for | | | | fifteen short minutes ago suddenly seems |
| stress, in one word only: Relax. According | | | | fresh, new, and able to be dealt with. |
| to the research of Herbert Benson's Mind Body | | | | You'll find, in fact, that what you may have |
| Medical Institute, anywhere from sixty to | | | | thought of as an indulgent extra break is one |
| ninety percent of visits to a physician | | | | of the best assets you have in the workplace, |
| involve stress-related disorders, most of the | | | | both for yourself and for your employer, |
| effects of which can be substantially reduced | | | | allowing you freedom from the sometimes |
| by just learning how to relax.If you're | | | | crippling thoughts and bodily pains that |
| stressed out enough to suffer from these | | | | prevented you from concentrating |
| complaints, chances are that advice to "just | | | | before.Whenever you find the pressures of |
| relax!" in a workplace setting may seem at | | | | work getting too much for you, keep this |
| best difficult, at worst outright foolhardy. | | | | exercise in mind. Work can be stressful, but |
| But that's just not so. According to Dr. | | | | there's no reason to let it get the better of |
| Benson and also to Charles Moore, one of the | | | | you. We sometimes believe that tight control |
| UK's leading advocates and practitioners of | | | | and strict attention to all of the little |
| stress-management exercises and therapy, the | | | | details is the only way to be effective in a |
| relaxation response isn't just a response to | | | | work environment, but in that, we're wrong. |
| a relaxing environment: it's an internal | | | | The only way to truly be effective is to stay |
| process, similar to the physiological effects | | | | healthy, calm--and relaxed.The 4th R is a |
| of stress, that can be activated any time you | | | | resource and training center for learning how |
| like. All you have to do is learn how to | | | | to relax based in South West London. It was |
| activate it.You can do this in your office. | | | | founded by Charles Moore, whose health |
| Get to a point in your work when you can take | | | | flourished under his own innovative |
| a break for ten or fifteen minutes, or just | | | | application of principles that are becoming |
| make yourself take a break for ten or fifteen | | | | universally recognised as the benchmark for |
| minutes: you do your best work when you're | | | | permanently eliminating stress and |
| relaxed, so don't worry about the work | | | | anxiety.For more articles or information |
| waiting for you when you get back. Find a | | | | visit |
| calm place to sit down. Get away from any | | | | |
| phones, faxes or talkative coworkers for a | | | | |
| while--if you have to, just sit down in your | | | | |
| car. Take a deep breath and close your | | | | charles@the4thr.co.ukYou may publish this |
| eyes.The two keys to effective relaxation are | | | | article on your own website as content, |
| physical response and mental calmness. | | | | provided you retain the author credit, bio |
| Luckily, the two of them go hand in hand. | | | | and link back to contained at the bottom of |
| Start out your workplace relaxation by taking | | | | the article.There's one truth that holds for |
| long, deep breaths from the bottom of your | | | | anywhere you might happen to work: most of |
| lungs up to the diaphragm. Try, as best you | | | | the time they have to pay you to be there! |
| can, to empty your head of all thoughts, | | | | You might be doing work you absolutely love, |
| plans, and worries: right now, all you need | | | | and you might think yourself the luckiest |
| to do is relax. To help you with this, try | | | | person on earth nine days out of ten, but |
| saying something simple to yourself while you | | | | there will always be days - rainy days, |
| breathe: count up to four and back down | | | | hung-over mornings, days when you just want |
| again, think of the name of a favorite pet, | | | | to read a good book - when going in to work |
| child, or friend, repeat a mantra, prayer, or | | | | seems like the last thing in the world you |
| even a line from a favorite song. That's all | | | | want to do. |
| there is to it. Just breathe in, repeat your | | | | |