Savoring Life Through ‘Slow Living’

Slow hobbies

Another idea that is fast catching up, especially in the western world is that of slow hobbies. The number of younger people who have adopted knitting as a hobby has markedly increased in the past years and the majority knit to reduce stress. Research has shown that the slow-paced, rhythmic dancing of the knitting needles can lull the knitter into a state of calm. There are several slow hobbies that can be pursued in earnest in order to calm the mind.

‘Snailing’ toward better health

Slow living is a chosen state of existence, which can do wonders to any individual who diligently pursues it. Slowing the pace of life can miraculously benefit a person’s health and enhance his sense of well being.

 • Simple, slowed -down living can control hypertension and eliminate stress·

• Alleviating stress promotes sound sleep·

• Slow food and slow diet can help to provide permanent solutions to weight problems·

• Walking is encouraged in place of mechanized transport. This can provide the much- needed exercise

• Slowing down helps to keep lifestyle diseases, such as cancer, diabetes or cardio- vascular diseases, at bay

Now or Never

'At times,  ‘going slow’ seems to get you there faster'

- Insoo Kim Berg 

Life is lived in an instant, in the present- in the ‘now’. The trick is to live each moment as they come. Whining about the past or pining for the future compromises our health. Slowing down the pace of one’s life is recommended to reshape our sagging lives.

Slow Living stresses on a healthy lifestyle, which is more in touch with life’s basic forces. It is an effort to seize control of time rather than be swayed by it; an effort that will help one to savor the essence of life.

Source-Medindia
Dr. Reeja Tharu/V