You’ve just come out of a frustrating meeting or you’re in the middle of a difficult work out session or concentrating on a complicated project and you?
Sigh
No, it doesn’t make everything better and you don’t feel 100% again but somehow you feel a little more refreshed, a little more relaxed and you’re able to continue on. Why is that? It’s nothing more than an exaggerated breath after all.
Maybe it’s just the act of pausing to refresh yourself. A brief nod to the body to acknowledge that it’s tired.
Maybe it’s just a break in the routine that let’s you mentally reset yourself so you can go on.
Or maybe it’s the extra intake of air that comes in to replenish the oxygen supply.
Whatever the reason it seems to be a time proven technique for allowing you to continue working. The physical sigh works great but I think the mental sigh should not be disregarded. At times your mind needs that mental sigh to clear away your thought process and let you go on working.
It doesn’t have to be something involved like meditation or time-consuming like reading a book or an article. Just a brief thought about something banal, something whimsical. Just a tiny pause to untangle the knots that we all tie ourselves up in.
It’s not just alright to do these things, sometimes it’s necessary.
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