How Rest at a Retreat in January will help you have your best year yet in 2023
Are you tired? Or even worse, ‘TATT’ (tired all the time)? Yes, it’s a thing and an acronym. Are you working around the clock, early starts, full on days, leaving your brain a little fried in the evening, and yet you find yourself still going to bed after midnight (or certainly later than you really should or even want to).
Maybe because you’re watching TV, or reading, or taking a bath because you feel you deserve some enjoyment from the day, rather than just slogging away at things?
Book yourself into the Healthy Minds Nourishing Retreat at the Cottages of Blackadon Farm (or put it on your Christmas list – there are Gift Vouchers available) The rest might be just the nourishment your soul needs, to ensure that 2023 is your best year yet.
A change is as good as a rest to start the year right
You know how you feel when you manage to get away for a weekend break, or even a longer holiday, particularly in the U.K.? You breathe deeper; you enjoy taking in the fresh air. Perhaps you also experience the ozone freshness of sea air. And then, when you return to your bed at the end of the day, you often find it a whole lot easier to get to sleep.
Down in Devon, we’re used to hearing visitors tell us how ‘it must be all that fresh air’ that makes them drowsy (or it could be the pasties, or the cream teas of course.)
At the Healthy Minds Nourishing Retreat we hope to offer you a little more to help you rest. There is TV, but whilst you’re welcome to bring your laptop, we’d urge you to try and resist the lure of checking your emails, watching an episode of something, or tapping into social media. Well, resist as much as you can anyway – we’re not monsters.
Sometimes we just need to do very little and reduce the stimuli of the modern world. And that’s hard. We get it.
How can rest help? Find space for the important stuff in 2023
We don’t need to tell you that less ‘white light’, plus less checking the news/social media feed of your choice, and more stimulating conversation with people around you, along with more activity – filling your senses from more natural stimuli from your immediate environment – are going to be great for your wellbeing and for your soul.
We aim to flood your senses with some happy hormones when you’re with us, intentionally dosing up on dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins – and to do this we like to embrace the three principles of positivity at our retreats, which are these –
- Positive thought
- Positive action
- Positive interaction
Doing this we’ll improve our overall mental wellbeing and enhance our mental resilience and performance.
Positive thought for 2023
“What you think about you bring about. Your whole life is a manifestation of the thoughts that go on in your head.”
(Rhonda Burn – The Secret)
To help you achieve more positive thoughts we’ll do some things to help with your mindset, which could include a one-to-one session with Sally, or might just be some collective group activity that doesn’t even feel like ‘work’.
Sally doesn’t so much ‘lead’ the retreat, instead she ‘guides’ it, responding intuitively to the needs of the individuals and the group.
Every thought we have has energy and that energy translates to activity. If you think negative thoughts, and that things won’t turn out how you hope, the feelings of hopelessness or expectations of failure can manifest in that outcome.
Which is why, it’s much better to put a positive spin on life, creating hope and expectations of success, so that our actions can then channel these positive thoughts for a successful outcome.
Our Itinerary is designed to give you space for yourself, first and foremost
A watercolour workshop, (with no expectation of a masterpiece!), and guided visualisation, relaxation sessions and planning journeys, all are included at the retreat.
Helpful activities to promote positive thought include reducing your news consumption – focus on things within your ‘circle of influence’ rather than things you have no control over. List three things that you are grateful for every day – these can be as simple as the power of sight, sound, and taste. Remember to think of the value you bring to the world and the people around you.
One evening at the retreat is devoted to a Sound Journey with Helen Philips. A beautiful, intentional way to change your perspective and experience new ways of thinking.
