The period between Christmas and New Year can feel like you’re living in a lull.
Somewhere between 26 and 31 December, time breaks down and becomes somewhat abstract and you begin to have no idea what day of the week it is, other than it end in ‘day’! You stop feeling like a real human being and start seeing yourself as a rustling chocolatey mass of discarded sweet wrappers.
Sound familiar? Well it how many of feel in that strange time between Christmas and New Year. We want to rest and relax, but find all we end up doing to eating more sweets or cakes, and then sleeping as we’ve no energy to put one foot in front of the other. We watch all sorts of programmes on the TV, streaming service or DVD, that we’d never consider watching at another time of the year, but somehow at this time of year, we willingly watch them.
Let’s be honest though, although trying to totally relax and chill it what we want to do, it always seems more complicated in reality, probably because most of us aren’t used to it. We know how to wring every drop of usefulness and impressiveness out of our weekends, but we are not used to doing nothing at all. However, doing nothing at all is sometimes the very best thing for our mental health.
Maybe a mix of going for a brisk walk each day and then taking time to relax, but not sleep, is a good way to help our mental health as well as ensuring our physical health doesn’t suffer by doing nothing for almost a week.
Good luck with ‘the lull’!
The Distinct Dot 