RELAXATION.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1414, 11 October 1923, Page 3

RELAXATION.

Will power is indicated not only by your ability to hang on. but also by : your ability to let go. When you j clench your lists and set your jaw j and narrow your eyes and say that you Will, and when you keep yourself screwed up to this tension it's a sign that you are a strong personality to be sure. But how about the reverse lever? Can you work that? Can you take off your mighty purpose j when you take off your clothes, and go to bed and sleep, and not lie awake there chewing the thing over and over till the last nerve is frazzled? Can you sit down in a chair and let every muscle unloosen and every carking care slide off, and eat an apple and laugh at a joke and play with a cat? Life's a good deal of a run and jump, and how far you can jump depends on how far back you start. In other words, the force of the impact of your any deed depends on the amount of power you have accumulated during your hour of relaxation. Relaxation is a vast word. The will power to relax is as essential as the will power to go on. Of course anything can be overdone. You can relax too much. You can run so far that you are worn out by the time you want, to jump. And you can play an ■ rest so much thai you haven't time for business. But, the point is, thai the skilful relaxer is rave, and is a stronger personage than the vigorous and ever ready attacker. The man who can sit down at his office desk and throw himself into his affairs and start things humming at once is some man. But the man who, when necessary, can brush all the papers aside, let go his high emprise, shut off the gas. turn around and tell a good story or indulge in a hearty laugh, that's the man you want to look out for. The relaxer can deliver an awful punch when he comes back to the light. The human race knows this. They are paying Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks some million dollars a year, just for relaxation. This means you. Do you realise that your hours of relaxation should be planned for as intelligently as your hours or application'? Do you-let go systematically? A mother is a better mother when she takes a vacation once in a while from mothering and becomes a girl again for a \'i}-x days. A businessman is more effective at_ his desk when he is loyal to his gymnasium and golf course. This is a law that reaches

far into the spiritual life, for there; was a saint once who said, "1 went away from God to find God."