Sundays are usually busy for me because I have to complete a lot of work related to living a positive life. They aren’t very eventful. I have to clean and catch up to continue the next week, prepared for it.
I rest on Mondays after work. It feels splendid on this day. It helps me to reschedule the week and be a responsible person who completes the work plan. This reset is very necessary for positive outcomes.
It is not luck that helps us reach somewhere; it is the courage to leap ahead with full confidence. You do not know what to believe, so what is the need for contemplations and blind responses? One should not act like a paranoid person. Give rest to your mind and body, drink a mug full of coffee without sugar, and do something of interest to you.
Our insecurities that are due to some sort of real-life setbacks make us paranoid.
If you are robbed every day of your virtues, you look outwards, and you will see only a speculative and over-clever world that intends ill fate for you.
Therefore, keep clean and declutter your mind. Think positive. Create for yourself a conflict-free world. Whenever anything starts taxing your feelings and emotions, just look away, get out of the way, or respond with boundaries.
It is good to have faith. But it is not an attribute of fighters. They have to be sharp. They cannot rely on their teammates either because there is some mutiny or some speculation against you. You won’t perform unwelcomed. So keep to yourself and grow in spheres that are open to you.
To perform according to you, you first have to start your mornings well rested and fresh. You have to reset yourself when you know you have to face the world.
Someone confined to the four walls needn’t bother about the resetting of their mind and body and can whine all the time while seated on the bed with nothing to do but think paranoid thoughts about people.
To rest adequately, you need to work. It might not be physically exhausting. All your energy might go to intellectual or intuitive tasks, which need in-between stretching, yoga, and naps that will filter out all negativities and reduce inflammation in your gut. Cleanse your skin and brighten your eyes to take up a lot more.
A friend suggested that you should give time to think about the life that could have been for you in your past when you could have stuck to option A and did not choose B, and describe your plight inside your head. It is a kind of guided meditation. It heals you. And then you get back to the present with indifference and be happy for what you still have in hand.
Or you can rest and reset by taking a walk in nature, driving to a store and buying something of use, not showing any curiosity towards anything but that object, and coming back quickly towards home. It is not to save money; it is to be focused on one thing. If you simplify and declutter, it is necessary to be relatively less distracted by curiosity.
When I mentor my students to learn, I ask them to not think and question everything that they read. You sometimes have to follow the text or teacher blindly if you are being introduced to the concept for the first time. You can have questions and clear your doubts, but it is taxing to become curious about everything in this world. It kills to be curious.
Let us say you want to know the health effects of climate change; you can ruin yourself out of curiosity to understand earthquakes and tornadoes for your exams. You could describe heat stress, cholera, famine, and respiratory compromise; that would suffice for your preparation for the exam. A highly curious person like me would drift to the earthquakes. It does not matter at the end of the day as far as scholastic work is concerned. You can keep your curiosity pending by noting your question in your diary for, say, five years and try to learn then. You would have become wiser and more accomplished and would have secured more time and experience to recapitulate it after the former preparation, some five years ago, for this present day to reap the fruits of selective curiosity.
Five years is a very well-rested span of time to improve in your subject. The initial years were hard; now it is just a matter of half an hour.
An athlete doesn’t put all his might in the beginning of the race. There is an inner capacity to compensate; listen to it.
You need not race; just rest, reset, and act. Go slow with things, and you will eventually discover that your speed has increased. Have that courage, not luck, to move on after the resting day, and even though the morning was depressing, the day will end quietly and well, and you will get up again happier than before until you don’t get up. God forbid it should and will be in old age.
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