4Rs of Rejuvenation

Summer is here, people are on vacation or planning to go on one. I am already enjoying my vacation in Vancouver, Canada. Vacation is a leisure time to rejuvenate---do what you love to do, read books, play 

games, go hiking in the woods or mountains or sea side, be with friends and relatives, enjoy the party, etc. The following thoughts were shared by my nephew Leo and I thought to share with all of you.

The 4Rs of rejuvenation: reflect, release, renew and relax

Reflect - from now going back a few days, weeks, months as far as you can think. Anything that was holding you back from moving forward in life (things that you resisted), recognize them and find the real reason behind the resistance, then release them. 

Release - self-forgiveness or/and forgiveness of others in order to let go of any kind of clutter in your mind and eventually be open to receiving and renew yourself with positive and constructive thoughts. 

Renew - build up your self-esteem using affirmations (be grateful for all that you have), use visualization where you project yourself before your eyes and see the future, the way you would want to see yourself few days, weeks, months or years from now.

 

Relax – Relaxation is not only doing yoga, deep breathing & sleeping but the true relaxation is calming you internally. Just lying down, closing eyes and focusing on relaxing individual body parts one at a time, either starting from head to toe or vice versa, until your entire body feels like it's sinking. This is a good practice in isolating your thoughts, feelings and emotions, which can help you in creating opportunities for yourself. Just be ready to recognize them when they show up and try not to resist.

Sometimes you do things that you don't really love doing but just need or have to for whatever reasons. - it’s tough to always love what you do, so at these times, you want to find something to love in whatever you are doing, be it small or big, and just focus on that. Soon enough, you will accept it with love and it becomes effortless.