Relax and Do Nothing

Recently I was hit with the need to relax and do nothing in an effort to relieve stress and make way for healing (shingles, for crying out loud). I don’t know about you, but being told to do nothing seemed like a dream. But it turns out that to do nothing is harder than you might think—or better put, and speaking only for myself, to relax and do nothing without guilt can be dauntingly difficult. Nagging thoughts of things wanting done crowd the mind like uninvited guests.

Relax and Do Nothing Copper Wire Key Tying

Though not exactly doing nothing, I’ve found binge-watching can be quite relaxing. Bonus: a writer-mentor friend  assures me it is excellent self-care.

Relax and Do Nothing Frog

I particularly liked BBC’s The Great Interior Design Challenge. Unfortunately, Netflix currently has only one season. Fortunately there were 16 episodes! I started assessing my own home for interior design possibilities, which was not part of the intended relax and do nothing protocol. Of course, this morphed into things I could do while watching TV from the couch, like tying keys together with copper wire and painting a yard art frog in glow-in-the-dark greens—which were both relaxing. (The doctor said specifically to relax without guilt.) Naturally, I have also gone for yoga, meditation, reading, and naps. Social media and news fasts have made way for recommended holistic, dietary and supplement data gathering jags. Meet my new friend, lemon balm tea.

I am now sneaking up on getting back to work, hence this post. So here’s me working part time between my relaxation breaks. Until next time, or as they say around these here parts, hasta entonces.

Tanya

New fiction author, Tanya D. Dawson, has written a story for the young adult in all of us. Her pending novel, Andersen Light: A Mystic Creek Novel [working title], brightens the sometimes dark world of YA and delivers the angst and the weird in this inspiring becoming-who-you-are adventure of mystery, intrigue, and mysticism grounded in today’s world. While Andersen Light: A Mystic Creek Novel is primarily set on the North’ish West Coast, Tanya lives and works in the American Southwest.