• Instant Exercise: Reinvigorate Yourself

    edited by Alexander Becker on September 11, 2006 | Link

    In order to continually and repeatedly perform at peak performance levels, you need to rest properly, reload your creative energies, stimulate your mind, and revitalize your body.

    The problem is that all too often, in order to find the concentration and focus to be exclusively with yourself, you need to have very special circumstances, a special environment or certain settings at least.

    Count Dracula had to travel to England with seven boxes of soil from Transylvania because he had to sleep on native ground to maintain and restore his supernatural powers.

    In between prolonged times of running on autopilot, you regularly, at best daily, need some sense of home, let's call it active, explicit, conscious rest, where the mental experience of rest is more important than the physical rest itself.

    Does your reanimation procedure consist of certain rituals performed in a specific sequence? Prepare coffee, prepare vitamin supplement, drink coffee, exercise, log exercise, drink vitamin supplement, or closing your eyes, standing still, breathing deeply for like 5 times, qualifies, if performed regularly and formed and installed as a habit, as such kind of ritual that delivers a sense of calm, quiet, and peace. You may only notice the meaning of the ritual once it is disrupted or in some way disturbed or delayed.

    Examine ways of rest and methods of reloading mind and body. Energize yourself and get rid of stress and back into a productive state of mind. Below is a list of examples that you can use as the basis, the building blocks for assembling your instant reactivation formula.

    • Sleep, a short nap; 20 minutes, 10? In a special position, sitting?
    • Deep breathing exercises; as in inhale, hold, exhale, hold, each to a count of 10, for example.
    • Jewels, accessoires, special tools, favorite clothes; I suggest going without any physical objects or talismans that you tie your well-being to. You can though, playfully employ whatever you like, just make sure to not create a fetish of any kind for it will weaken and potentially corrupt you.
    • A special workout; something like 7 hindu pushups, or a minute-long wall chair, or a wrestler's bridge or two. Please note that the exercises are not meant to challenge you physically, instead, they are intended to help you regain mental focus. No competition here.
    • Meditation; bring your favorite thought-exclusion technique.
    • A certain environment or location; this is a rather immobile means, although you can abstract and use, for example, a window of any shape or form, in any location, as your reference point.
    • Certain people or the absence of them; again, please do not depend on specific people in order to function well or to concentrate properly, on the other hand, the general concept of being alone or not alone, does in fact, work very well.
    • Real world or animated imagery; invoke your rest through your personal moving pictures inside your mind. Create your very special mobile home theater.
    • A string of words or a melody; make up your secret activation code. It really works; think lyrics, for example.

    Find something that works for you. Combine as many instances of the above and use your own imagination to create some more. Make it intimate and effective. Design and make up your personal reinvigorating sequence to take with you -- ideally, whereever you go -- leaving the soil at home...

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