Good morning my DU family,
Today, more than ever before, stillness is not only healthy, but relaxing, invigorating, and even productive.
Please give us a day filled with opportunities to be still, to be reflective, and to create harmony. Please let us enjoy the momentary bliss of peaceful stillness.
Have a wonderful day filled with peaceful moments.
Love, John 
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Yes, it is important to find stillness & get adequate rest.
Intetesting excerpt from an article:
According to Dr. Benson, who is also founder and president of the Mind/Body Medical Institute and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, health care has traditionally rested upon the twin pillars of pharmacology and surgery. Over the past several decades, though, science has validated a third pillar—self-care, through an understanding of the mind-body relationship. Dr. Benson believes that as many as 60 percent to 90 percent of hospital visits involve conditions that are in some way related to stress and the mind, including anxiety, hypertension, chronic pain, depression and infertility, to name a few.
Early in his career, several practitioners of transcendental meditation approached Dr. Benson to participate in his model for stress-induced hypertension; up until then, he had been using operantly conditioned squirrel monkeys to determine the relationship between stress and blood pressure.
Benson divided the individuals into two groups; one sat quietly for 20 minutes while the other actively meditated. "The only difference was the content of their thoughts," Dr. Benson said.
The results were immediately striking. The meditation group showed distinct, profound biological changes including decreased metabolism, rate of breathing, heart rate and slower brain-wave activity.
My comments: Dr. Benson is said to have identified the relaxation engine or relaxation response in humans. The opposite of the fight/flight/freeze stress reaction, the relaxation response is one in which the body begins the natural process of self-healing, if we will just be still ...
Much more at link.
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https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2006/05/the-relaxation-response-harvard-doc-discusses-ways-to-transcend-daily-stressors
