填空题 What does it mean to relax? Despite 1 thousands of times during the course of our lives, 2 have deeply considered what it"s really about.
When you ask people what it means to relax, most will answer in a way that suggests that relaxing is something you 3 —you do it on vacation, in a hammock, 4 , or when you get everything done. This implies, of course, that most other times should 5 , agitated, rushed, and frenzied. Very few actually come out and say no, but this is 6 . Could this explain why so many of us operate as if life were one great 7 ? Most of us postpone relaxation until our "in-basket" 8 . Of course it never is.
It is useful to think of relaxation as 9 that you can access on a regular basis rather than something 10 some later time. You can relax now. It"s helpful to remember that relaxed people can still be 11 and, in fact, that 12 go hand in hand. When I"m feeling upright, for example, I don"t even 13 . But when I feel relaxed, my writing 14 .
Being more relaxed 15 training yourself to 16 to the dramas of life, turning your melodrama into a mellow drama. It comes, in part, from 17 over and over again (with loving kindness and patience) that you 18 in how you respond to life. You can learn to relate to your thinking as well as 19 in new ways. With practice, making these choices 20 a more relaxed self.