Rest, Vacations, and Relaxation: One Great Technique. How to Learn to Relax in Any Circumstances

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Health, rest, and lifestyleLoveRest without guiltFreedomAnxiety, stress, and inner calmLove, help, and rescuing others

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• 00:00You need to allow yourself a state in which you, as a person, understand very clearly that rest isn't something to search for. You don't need to wait for rest, wait for a vacation, wait for a break. You don't need to earn rest.Freedom · Awareness · Cause and effect
• 01:50For some, it's watching a series in the evening. For some, having a drink with friends. For some, going for a walk in the woods. For some, going to Turkey once a year.Friend / friends · Time · Wife
• 03:42It's happening for the first time in our lives. Probably, she has never gone anywhere alone for four weeks in at least the last fifteen years of our marriage.Mom / mother · Children · Wife
• 05:34Some friends ask: will there be a nanny? Have you prepared for the trip? What will happen? What are your plans? How will work happen?Children · Time
• 07:22Or is that rest? Or if we're watching a movie, is that rest, or is it harder than work? Of course, I'm not including work... Perhaps someone watching this video does very demanding physical labor.Garden / plants · Mom / mother
• 09:22I don't know what. That there's something in the soil that brings a person happiness. People, scientists, are constantly trying to find the various elements of happiness. So what brings happiness?Time · Children · Wife
• 12:02An exercise that may seem very strange to you right now. I'm deliberately saying this at the end of the video so you won't immediately switch it off and think it's madness.Friend / friends · Time · Anger
• 14:16And when you want to create rest for yourself, keep a very strict watch on whether your rest is becoming a problem for other people. This is an enormous, tremendously powerful key to resolving things in a person's life.Volchek V100 · Alexander Volchek

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• 00:35

  It's much better to frame your goal and the cause-and-effect relationship more broadly: “I'll work on having rest within me always,” rather than setting the goal, “How can I rest once a year?”

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• 06:53

  And when I worked, it was harder than when I went out with the whole family on Saturday.

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• 08:44

  Or perhaps carrying bags in the garden is easier, because at that moment I'm not discussing strategy with anyone. I'm alone with myself, alone with that bag and the soil, and nothing else.

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• 11:14

  More precisely, sometimes I fill in with something, but there are many things I don't do because I have a wife. A great many things she does, I don't know how to do.

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• 11:41

  I'm not seeking anything out or preparing anything for this, because for me it's simply life, even if this life is unique.

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• 11:55

  To reach an incredible state of rest, you need to do the most important exercise.

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• 13:28

  Someone plans to rest on the weekend and constantly creates difficulty for themselves, their family, their parents, children, husband, wife, friends, colleagues, relatives, boss, subordinates, partners.

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• 13:47

  They're the one who wants to rest, yet they're creating a state of problems for everyone else.

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• 13:55

  The first thing to begin doing in your daily work and your daily life, even when you don't yet feel rested yourself, is to bring a state of rest to other people, to create a state of rest for them.

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• 15:25

  For those who really need it, for those who are truly looking for it.

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