Resilience Resources 101 — Holiday Edition
Resilience for the Holidays
No surprises here, but taking time to practice simple relaxation techniques can help you sail through the holidays, having your friends wonder how you get so much done, and still remain so cool.
You can find a gazillion great stress management resources out there. Here are a few to get you started. Find ones you like and use them regularly.
Consistency seems to be the kicker here. Getting the hang of using relaxation exercises means getting into the HABIT of using them.
Impress yourself, your friends, family, and colleagues: Become amazing and mysteriously capable of staying calm amidst the chaos.
You can improve your bottom line, your relationships, your grades, and certainly your quality of life. Start checking these out, and then springboard into your own discoveries.
- Enjoy the peace.
- Breathe! — increases everything good.
- Send your friends here and start a trend.
- Smile, it increases your face value.
Breathing Relaxation Exercise In less than 5 minutes, you can be breathing slower and more deeply, energizing all your systems.
(Note: DO NOT listen to any relaxation exercises while driving,
operating machinery, or performing activities
which require you to be alert to task!)
Here’s a longer one, with nature sounds and cool music.
Amazon Rainforest Relaxation Video (26-min)
The river (4 min) This one has Native American voice, filmed in Slovenia.
Relaxation – Tranquility – Reiki – Mind Body & Soul 4 (5-min) Classic relaxation music style. Great Reiki affirmation at the end.
Stress Beats Holiday Stress (5-min) David Riklan gives seven tips from Relaxation and Stress Relief in Five Minutes of Less.
Buy them, get them at the library, watch on YouTube, make your own. Use ‘em! These videos may encourage you to explore more stress management habits, such as better sleep patterns, or yoga, or mini-mental-vacations. We will post more relaxation tips for you in the future.
Which of these (or one you discovered) is your favorite?
Happy Peace-Breathing Holidays!
We gather eclectic resources and tips, and find these good ones. Thank you, we bookmarked a couple, especially enjoyed the river. Happy Holidays.
Appearing to remain calm amidst chaos and actually BEING calm through it all are often two different things. We tend to bolt the lid on until after the holiday rush and then wonder why we always get sick shortly afterward.
Learning how to keep our internal cool in a healthy way sounds like a lesson for us all, even for veteran musicians who’ve been through the fire and still gotten standing ovations for keeping it together.
Thanks for all the great resources!
Hi Pam, thanks for stopping by. Sounds like you have some first-hand knowledge about handling performance stress. There are many musical performances around the holidays, so it is a good time to practice inner peace, as well as the music.
We hope some of these resources actually help you relax. They are only as good as we make them. In other words, using them consistently is key. Finding great resources may be easy. Using them every day is what will make the difference. Happy practicing, and Happy Holidays!
Thank you, thank you. I needed to stop and get peaceful and the Amazon Rainforest Relaxation video was very helpful. It last long enough to really help.