Taking Time Off From Yourself

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Taking Time Off From Yourself

There are days I have nothing to say, no opinion on anything whatsoever. I simply couldn’t care less. It may sound callous and hard, but I think everyone needs to take time off from themselves every so often.

Forget your problems, forget the news, forget the time and above all forget yourself. Instead spend your time in idleness of something that calms your mind. Reading is a great way of taking time off from the everyday as is listening to music and visiting somewhere new, which you have no preconceived opinion, making everything fresh and varied.

By letting yourself go this way you are eliminating a build-up of stress that has accumulated. Sometimes, we are so used to the way we live, the way we think and the way we feel that we don’t even recognise the stress it has on our minds and bodies. We are simply doing what we only know.

Taking time off from yourself is something like switching off a T.V. Imagine if you watched one TV station all the time, day in and day out, how boring and repetitive would this be? Imagine if you couldn’t switch your T.V off and all the time it was beating out noise. Most people get so used to the noise that they hardly recognise it in the background, it’s only when something louder grabs our attention that we take notice. Our lives are like this, we go on with the noise always in the background- people, problems, opinions, decisions, responsibilities, obligations, that we barely notice anything.

So today try it, switch yourself off, forget everything that uses our mental energy that continuously drains your battery, sit back and recharge.