Quotes About Relaxation

Reread your favorite novel, the one you only let yourself read any more when you're sick in bed.

Drink a cup of herbal tea, if you like. Listen to some soft classical music and prepare yourself to drift

take in more oxygen through efficient breathing

take at least two full days off each week. No technology. 'Zero Device Days

your natural genius presents itself when you're most joyful. We get our ideas that change the world when we're rested, relaxed and filled with delight.

lock two ninety-minute massages onto your weekly schedule.

Tranquility is the new luxury of our society.

Never forget that time spent enriching your non-work hours is never a waste. It makes you tremendously efficient during your working hours. Our biggest ideas often come during our most relaxed times.

Your best ideas will come when you least expect it. Most revolutionary thoughts don't come when you are keeping a frenetic pace; they come when you're having fun. So have some fun - it's good for business, as well as for your soul.

As far as I'm concerned, taking a bath is sort of like drowning, with soap.

The movie has, above all, effortless charm. Once we catch on that nothing much is going to happen, we can relax and share the amusement of the actors, who are essentially being asked to share their playfulness.

What does it take for you and others to relax? It may be talking over a drink, or meeting at a vacation lodge in some picturesque spot, or dressing less formally during the meeting and calling one another by your first names.

I took Jack his slippers this evening and lay at his feet before a roaring fire while he smoked his pipe, sipped sherry, and read the newspaper. He read aloud everything involving killings, arsons, mutilations, grave robberies, church desecrations, and unusual thefts. It is very pleasant just being domestic sometimes.

My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures—a drink of cold water when you are thirsty, liquor when you are not, sex, a cigarette after many days without one—there is none of them can compare with sleep. Sleep is best. . . .

As or other occasions of rest after stress with more stress pending, sleep eluded me for a time.

for things like migraine, high or low blood pressure, stomach cramps. I don't remember exactly, but Bach was the one prescribed most often, especially certain fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier. Wait, I'll be back in a minute.

In his early days in business, Rockefeller often suffered from severe neck pains that might have indicated stress on the job, and he turned to horses as a therapeutic diversion. "I would leave my office in the afternoon and drive a pair of fast horses as hard as they could go: trot, break, gallop—everything.

pyjamas, all patterned and baggy. Late

A maintenance dose. It would keep her asleep all night. It would keep her warm, and gentle, and relaxed, and at peace, and cradled, and happy.

foam on his lip, from a long hard pull on a long-neck bottle. Maybe

Lewit and Simons (1984) mention that: • Postisometric relaxation of the suboccipital muscles will also relax the sternocleidomastoid muscles • Treatment of the thoracolumbar muscles induces relaxation of iliopsoas, and vice versa • Treatment (MET) of the sternocleidomastoid and scalene muscles relaxes the pectorals.

Mediterranean.

while your unconscious mind is working feverishly to do all those things, you can relax in bed, recognizing, seemingly without effort, the lighting fixture on the ceiling—or the words in this book.

In Christ there is confidence. We relax in Him. We're not nervous. We're not saying, "Oh, is it going to happen?" That's not in the language. It's going to happen because it has always happened. In faith there is the element of confidence which brings relaxation in God. It's a matter of just leaning on Him.