TAKE-A-MINUTE

Are you struggling for personal time but can’t get the time to find it?  Many people have a job that occupies 10 hours of their day on top of having a family and other commitments. It becomes part of daily life that you have to figure out your personal time in advance and blank out that space in your diary.  We just don’t seem to have a minute.

How many times do we regularly use these phrases in our work place, with family, friends and our children? Wait a Minute; Give me a Minute;  I haven’t got a Minute;  Give me a Minute’s Peace;  Just a Minute;  In a Minute;  Stop for a Minute; Hold on a Minute;  I just need a Minute;  Got a Minute, It only takes a minute.  When we say these phrases do we really mean a minute as the definition of a minute is a period of time equal to sixty seconds or a sixtieth of an hour. 

I’d like to share with you an exercise from my programme entitled:

      

‘THE AIRISU WAY’

This aim of this exercise is to put the length of time of one minute in perspective, so as you can experience what a minute feels like.

HAVE A GO It only takes a Minute: Use a clock, watch, phone or stopwatch to measure exactly one minute. 

Take this minute to be comfortable in your environment

• Keeping  your eyes open, gently rest them on a chosen point in front of you
• Withdraw your attention from all sights and sounds
• Acknowledge and appreciate the positive feelings and thoughts which may spring directly from this exercise
• As the minute comes to a close stay with your feelings for a few moments, closing your eyes, creating complete silence in your mind.

When we stop for a minute, we stop speaking, moving, worrying – Perhaps you think that nothing has happened!  Well, actually a great deal has happened. 

You will begin to notice things like, your body slowing down, your thoughts  becoming calmer, your mind begins to clear and the view of how things are begins to become interestingly different.  Quite a lot when you Take-a-Minute!

It may be useful to quickly jot down some of your thoughts, especially if they were creative ideas so as they are not lost to you for the future.

Take-a-Minute and let the silence unfold its treasure around you.

Iris