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Six Tips to Slow Down

The holidays will soon be upon us. During this time of year, it's quite easy to get stressed out, so I'm offering you a few simple and very effective tips for staying calm and present.

The holidays will soon be upon us. During this time of year, it's quite easy to get stressed out. Here are six very simple and effective tips for staying calm and present.

Who doesn’t feel as if there aren’t enough hours in the day? We rush through the day, running here and there, and end up exhausted. Somehow these days full of duties and obligations have begun to build up and become our lives. Do you spend your time doing things we don’t really want to do, yet feel we should? We’ve come to believe that being productive and crossing things off our to-do list is the ultimate goal.
 
The truth is, life on Earth is a brief gift, and our time is too precious to be used like this. If we want our lives to be balanced and healthy, we need to lessen our load and increase our down time. This means planning less in a day, prioritizing those things that make our hearts sing and de-prioritizing those things that are not imperative.
 
If we must accomplish many things each day, we can still change the quality with which we do things. How can we transmute a trip to the market into something delicious instead of the usual gripping and tightening experience? Where can we find ease in the midst of stress? How can we cultivate the art of going slowly?
 
Take a few moments before you climb out of bed in the morning to remember your dreams and to think about what you want from the day.

Six tips to slow down

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  1. Leave your watch at home for the day.
  2. Take the scenic route.
  3. Sit for a moment with your eyes closed when you start your computer.
  4. Check e-mail only twice a day.
  5. Don’t pack your schedule so tightly that there’s no time for a short walk.
  6. Add one moment here and there for slowness; it can be done simply and will have a profound effect on your well-being.

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