By: N. George
Worth Noting:
- When enjoying happy moments time seems to run faster than when engaging in ordinary activities’ reason being there is joy which keeps your mind busy, and you fail to have much concentration on time while the reverse happens to be true in that when going through painful moments you keep asking yourself how long it will last so the time will seem as if it is lagging. If you realize you are experiencing the later it is advisable to identify what makes you happy and give it attention to discourage focusing on pain.
- Nature is orderly, stressing issues usually strain your mind making you to focus on the challenge at hand rather than try to look outside the box. If you take a nature walk you will observe orderly things and your mind would focus on that natural order thereby bring some kind of relief to you.
If you are in a bad mood, go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood, go for another walk… Hippocrates.
Living amongst young kids especially those below seven years is a fun one time they play with each other the other time they fight each other thereafter they cry few minutes later they are laughing at each other not only are their lives fun, but also they take every minute at a time.
Experimentation is one of the things that these kids’ loves most without caring the outcome and through this they are able to learn a lot within a short period. Unless they are hurt by something they do not fear they are just ready to take every challenge head on. Concentration levels are around twenty minutes, and then they switch to another task.
As people grew up that is when you hear many of them complain of stress, some reasons leading to this being the lengthy period of concentration so if what you are dealing with is a nuisance it is likely to make you feel oppressed and wish if the earth opens and swallows you.
One of the measures you can take to avoid such occurrences is to take a break of that issue which is paining you by taking a walk so that you shift your focus to something else, especially one with positive attributes.
Canadian author Robin Sharma talks of how focusing on something helps your target to expand in your mind, so what is ailing you need to be given minimum possible focus to avoid negative effects emanating from it.
Life is a series of events some pleasing, regretful and others not well-defined so no one can claim to go through a joyful life all the time even when alone you could be thinking or observing events that could not be auguring well with your wishes thereby giving you a hard time.
When enjoying happy moments time seems to run faster than when engaging in ordinary activities’ reason being there is joy which keeps your mind busy, and you fail to have much concentration on time while the reverse happens to be true in that when going through painful moments you keep asking yourself how long it will last so the time will seem as if it is lagging. If you realize you are experiencing the later it is advisable to identify what makes you happy and give it attention to discourage focusing on pain.
Nature is orderly, stressing issues usually strain your mind making you to focus on the challenge at hand rather than try to look outside the box. If you take a nature walk you will observe orderly things and your mind would focus on that natural order thereby bring some kind of relief to you.
Walking about in times of bad mood will help you to sharpen cognitive function, think at a quick rate and react fast to any situation, thus help you find the solution to your challenges more easily, saving you from prolonged period of stress.
Engaging those around you like talking to them, observing what others are doing and trying to think why they are behaving in such a manner will help you ease the strain in your mind which could be giving you a hard time. You may go ahead and disclose to them your challenges more so if they are friendly to you or you can visit a psychologist or a professional counselor, perhaps they may help you with a solution to what could be troubling you.
Mere observation of nature when full of disturbing thoughts will provide you with creative ideas like when you observe how different plants flowers will give you new ideas of how beauty manifests. You will also be able to see how variety of vegetation coexist then realize that there is space for everyone and every thought, so try to see yourself surviving in midst of challenges yet not getting harmed.
In times of illness, walking help improve blood circulation throughout the body. Such blood flow helps your brain and body to remain healthy through bringing in nutrients to your cells, and taking away toxins.
An exposure to sun will help your body to synthesis vitamin D essential in reducing risk of depression by suppressing seasonal affective disorder caused by inadequate sunlight exposure.
Visiting a waterfall will help the body to relax blood to flow throughout the body reducing pressure.
Mary Karau Ngethe