I relax watching TV, playing video games or surfing the net, isn’t that good enough?
This is not the same, this is mind numbing rest, not true deep physical and mental relaxation created by triggering the built in relaxation response that puts you into a state of rapid recovery, drains away stress and balances your nervous system. These may help by distracting you, but it does not offer the deep relaxation you need. My life is too busy or Im too tired – so I don’t have time to relax. If you are an extrovert you become more frantic and try and do more and more. If you are an introvert you do less and less, these are symptoms of accumulated stress. Either way you become less effective and more stressed. Both will say they don’t have time to relax usually because they don’t know how to relax properly in a highly effective way. It’s like the story of the people who pass a man sawing wood. They see he has a huge pile that he has already sawed but still has an even bigger one to saw. They notice his saw is blunt.
