Keep Healthy Even If Drown By Busyness

Life these days, aren't always as balanced as they are in the past. Looking through, it ranges from people whom work relatively little (or even not working), able to enjoy holidays travelling to wherever they want, whenever they want; to people whom can't even sit still (a.k.a. workaholics, their will or boss's will). It targets, therefore, to find a balance.

One isn't sure about y'all, but for one, totally not working is a "cannot sit still" manner, at least if lasting for a long time. One feel one could rest if one had done the day's work, and the rest is one's reprimand toward oneself; however, if one does not do anything for a few days, it is depressing. It feels like time is passing through and one is the boat that floats down the path, watching the boat gradually getting rusty and sinking. Therefore, we need to have work (in fact, one use the word "need" here rather than "want"; cause it's a "need", a crucial element), and at the same time we cannot only have work.

What work you do lies down to your interest. For one, it's something that will calm one's mind down. For example, if you ask one to work on something repetitive, it doesn't calm one's mind down, so one don't consider it as work, even if being paid a decent amount. On the other hand, programming for one is calming one's mind down: it's something that one uses one's brain, and this is important to calm one's mind. No brain using, no calming. Working on something tiring physically also calm one's mind, but it's not as effective as programming, and it has to be tiring, pushed to the edge of one's limit (but not over the limit: that ends up in hospital).

And for those whom work all day long? It's not healthy too. One never believes you cannot stop for a moment: it's only if you choose to stop for a moment or choose not to. Other reasonings are inconceivable. No boss can control you: you control yourself. Perhaps you feel afraid, but there's always the choice to quit the job if boss wants to murder you, albeit slowly. Remember, all choice are only available when you're alive, not when you're lying in the hospital bed feeling remorse, nor when you're in heaven/hell.

One thing you can do is exercise, even if for a short while a day. One exercise 15-20 minutes a day and it feels nice. Before one exercise, one used to have short breathe, or even the feeling of unable to breathe, because there's something stuck in one's oesophagus (you call it gullet, or throat pipes that links your nose and mouth to lungs and stomach). As a result of short breathe, one easily gets mad, bang the tables, and smash the furnitures (pillow, really, too poor to break stuffs). And it recides most of the time when one starts exercising. Thing is, if you do push ups, it'll starts your breathing back again. You could do the full push ups (not ankles on the floor, please) slowly, breathe in with each down, and breathe out with each ups; or you could do half push-ups (a.k.a. the push up that doesn't go all the way down, just halfway) if you only have triceps muscle but not biceps, but this requires you doing real fast (60 push-ups per minute) for 80-120 push-ups, and breathing is breathe in, hold for a few push ups before breathe out in "steps". You feel the speed when you know you can't breathe in and breathe out in a single step, but breathe in 10-20% with each up/down. It should be strong enough to push back whatever blocking the oesophagus. The only time one feels blocked again is when things get tense; you know how things get tense if you work... Nothing is always smooth.

Similarly, sometimes you just need time for going outside and see the greenery. Take a walk in the arboretum (some place where you don't need your brain to think). How to decide? You should not need your brain to cross the road, because it should have no cars (park should have no cars: if it has bicycles, try walking on the grass outside of their way). And it should be green: not filled with the noise of cities and surrounded by buildings (at least not too near). It's a good choice when you start feeling the headache. At least, one never use headache-painkillers with greenery (and sleep afterwards). It's helpful for one, as headache means excessive use of eyes (not sure for you, but as a short-sighted person, one almost only feels headache with excessive use of eyes, irregardless of eyes feeling hurt or not).

Most importantly, for exercise, don't stop! A habit means something that is repeatable without stopping, and this means including the weekend. One used to exercise 6 days a week, excluding Sunday. One Monday, one feels too lazy to restart. That day, one decide: no more holidays on Sunday, and no more holidays when one go on holidays (that is, even exercise when going abroad travelling). It's the habit that allows things to keep going without you exerting your will to keep it going.

In conclusion, brain feels clearer, breathe deeper, and you feel more healthier. It's never too late! Start now.

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