If you don't choose a day for rest, your body will take one for you.
Sometimes we think that to disconnect we need a whole week. A resort in the jungle, with an ocean view, with hammocks, ginger shots, and meditation sessions in the morning. And yes, that’s nice. It’s wonderful. It’s highly recommended, transformative… But probably that can only happen one week a year, if that. The rest of the time happens here, in the city, in the office, at home, in the routine that SUSTAINS us and wears us down at the same time.
So, what do we do with the rest of the year? What do we do with the other fifty-one weeks?
Because the body doesn’t understand scheduled vacations. Stress lives in the now, it accumulates now, it weighs now. And if we don’t do something now, the body ends up taking that break on its own, at the least convenient moment, in the least desired way. (a flu that knocks you out for a week, a migraine that leaves you unable to move half your face for 2 days, nights of insomnia, very tired but unable to turn off your mind).
That’s why I talk about scheduling. About opening up your calendar full of deadlines, deliveries, responsibilities, calls, meetings and finding a space. ONE HOUR. Two hours. And writing there, in indelible ink: “THIS TIME IS MINE.”
Because if we don’t write it down, the world will fill it.
There’s always something urgent. There’s always something important. There’s always an excuse to postpone the pause.
And in that hour, the important thing isn’t so much the activity you choose, but what happens around it.
The important thing is that during that time, you manage to get the rush out of your system. Extract the stress like someone wringing out a soaked cloth. Let everything that’s left over, everything that weighs, everything that doesn’t belong to you, drip away.
In my case, is yoga.
Arriving at the mat with a tense body, with a mind full of pending tasks, with that feeling that what I do is never enough.
And starting to move. To breathe. To let go… and little by little, my breath deepens. my shoulders lower from where I´ve had them hunched up, near my ears.
And at the end, when it’s all over, I realize: that my body feels different. Definitely different from when it arrived. Lighter. And my mind, that mind that wouldn’t stop spinning, is now calm. At peace. Feeling good with itself.
That, I assure you, is better medicine than any sleeping pill. Because it doesn’t shut me down, it wakes me up. It returns me to myself.
It could be yoga. It could be a massage. It could be a walk without headphones, without podcasts, without productivity motivation, just the sound of your feet on the earth, just the wind, just the birds. It could be sitting in silence with a cup of hot CACAO in your hands, feeling the warmth before the taste, feeling the present before the thought.
It’s not a pill. It’s not escape. It’s ACTIVE listening. It’s attending to the body before it has to SHOUT. It’s giving the mind space before it COLLAPSES.
Because in the end, when that hour passes and you realize: “WOW, I didn’t think about work, I didn’t think about pending tasks, I didn’t think about anything except this moment,” you understand something profound:
That you don’t need a whole week to find yourself.
That sometimes, one hour is enough to release the weight from your shoulders.
And that moment of connection with yourself IS NOT A LUXURY, it’s not a whim, it’s not something you have to earn after fulfilling everything.
It’s not marketing, you don’t need to go with the best outfit, brands, styles… That moment: It is the foundation. It is the cornerstone. It is what allows you, later, to go out into the world and fulfill everything from a more whole place.
So there is the invitation.
Not for when you retire.
Not for when you finish this project.
Not for when the children grow up.
Not for when vacation arrives.
Now. This week. Tomorrow. Today.
Open the calendar. Find the slot. Write: “THIS TIME IS MINE.”
And then, simply, own it.
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