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What is gardening but tidying and maintaining an outside space? And yet we don't think of it as a chore; we see it as a pleasure and something that relaxes us. Crucially, it is something that often fully absorbs us while we do it. This is the very definition of a mindful activity.
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― Happy Inside: How to harness the power of home for health and happiness
― Happy Inside: How to harness the power of home for health and happiness
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In an era when Fear of Missing Out has its own universally understood acronym, recuperative rest and relaxation are not always regarded as the intensely worthwhile pursuits that they are. Instead, we are harrassed into believing that we must be constantly available to be of value, that peak productivity and performance are directly related to presenteeism, and that to snooze is to lose. This couldn't be more wrong.
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― Happy Inside: How to harness the power of home for health and happiness
― Happy Inside: How to harness the power of home for health and happiness
