I’m always alarmed at the levels of busyness that some people feel the need to operate at. Whether driven by the pressures of work or a compulsion to fill every waking minute with doing ‘stuff’, I just want to suggest taking five. Put away the phone, switch off the TV, make yourself a cuppa, and savour the sound of your own breathing. Most important of all, always listen to what your body is telling you. It rarely lies.
Thanks for this, Juliet. The course sounds interesting.
You’re right, life was simpler when I was young (60’s) but much harder too in many ways. I walked 3 miles to school, we had no central heating and no washing machine - I used to have to go to the launderette every Saturday. My Mum didn’t get a washing machine until the 80’s. We got central heating in 1979 and a phone the following year. We weren’t poor - we always had food and clothes- but both my parents worked and my Dad had an evening cleaning job to make ends meet. Life was a lot more physical, I think. We’ve gotten a bit soft and lazy in some ways. I speak for myself!
Yes, definitely, life was more physical. I remember in the 1970s, my Mum washed clothes in the kitchen sink, and had a mangle for getting out the water then the clothes would be put on the washing machine. We had coal fired central heating in the house that I grew up in, but the house before that, which I can't remember as I left it before I was 2 years old, had open coal fires. Most of us are probably in terms of physical work, lazier than we used to be.
I’m always alarmed at the levels of busyness that some people feel the need to operate at. Whether driven by the pressures of work or a compulsion to fill every waking minute with doing ‘stuff’, I just want to suggest taking five. Put away the phone, switch off the TV, make yourself a cuppa, and savour the sound of your own breathing. Most important of all, always listen to what your body is telling you. It rarely lies.
I agree, so many people live at such a frenetic pace these days. I agree with all your suggestions, I don't even have a smartphone....
Totally!
Thanks for this, Juliet. The course sounds interesting.
You’re right, life was simpler when I was young (60’s) but much harder too in many ways. I walked 3 miles to school, we had no central heating and no washing machine - I used to have to go to the launderette every Saturday. My Mum didn’t get a washing machine until the 80’s. We got central heating in 1979 and a phone the following year. We weren’t poor - we always had food and clothes- but both my parents worked and my Dad had an evening cleaning job to make ends meet. Life was a lot more physical, I think. We’ve gotten a bit soft and lazy in some ways. I speak for myself!
Yes, definitely, life was more physical. I remember in the 1970s, my Mum washed clothes in the kitchen sink, and had a mangle for getting out the water then the clothes would be put on the washing machine. We had coal fired central heating in the house that I grew up in, but the house before that, which I can't remember as I left it before I was 2 years old, had open coal fires. Most of us are probably in terms of physical work, lazier than we used to be.