5 tips on how to feel great in 5 minutes
Okay, in a nutshell, there are a few things that take more than five minutes:
- feast in the favorite restaurant
- watch the new episodes "Gilmore Girls"
- finally make the tax return
- tap into a decent beer
- Bake fortune cookies yourself
But sometimes five minutes are enough to make you feel great. True to the motto: small effort, big impact. Here are five suggestions that you can use to get yourself into a good mood kick at short notice:
Breathe consciously
An adult breathes an average of 22,000 times a day? That's 12 to 18 times a minute. It's amazing how calm we get when we focus on our breathing for only five minutes. It is best to sit down comfortably or lay down and close your eyes. Inhale slowly, counting to three. Repeat the same with the exhale. As you exhale, you can also let the air out audibly. You need more instructions? No problem with our breathing exercises to relax.
Inspirational reading
It does not always have to be the whole book, sometimes a few quotes from lucid people are enough to inspire us. Always good: the classic Confucius. "If you intend to renew yourself, do it every day." Coco Chanel has also said many sentences that make us think and smile: "Since everything is in our heads, we should not lose it." There are even more inspirational thoughts in our comprehensive collection of quotes? about the best quotes of smart women.
Make to-do list
Is especially recommended when stressful days are pending: write a to-do list. And now comes a trick: It should not just be things that take a lot of time, until you can check them off? but also those that are quite fix to accomplish. For example, send simple tasks such as transfer, arrange an appointment or answer e-mail. There is just a good feeling when you can mark a few things as done. Then the bigger tasks will not be that difficult anymore.
Install mini-workouts
No, the "5 minutes are far too short for sports" remarks we can not say: There are many exercises that you can do without much effort to do something good for your body. Whether yoga or Pilates, whether individual regions such as back, waist, neck or the whole body? We have put together a lot of great mini-workouts for you that can be easily integrated into everyday life.
Go on a fantasy trip
The next vacation is still months away? Do not fret! You can always beam to your favorite place. All you need is five minutes and a quiet environment. Sit or lie down comfortably and close your eyes. Then the fantasy journey starts. Imagine how you look at the sea (or any other place of longing). Try to remember how it smells there. The sun shines? Is it windy? What do you hear for sounds? Immerse yourself in the world that opens in your mind's eye. Alternatively, you can also be guided through a fantasy journey by a speaker.
And to enhance the effect, treat yourself to the "revival" tea that Chroniques Du VasteMonde developed together with Meßmer. The combination of green tea, pineapple flavor, cola nuts and guarana seeds gives stimulating moments of pleasure.
