There is now a mountain of evidence that most physical diseases have their roots in some form of mental and emotional dis-ease! But at what level do you, could you, should you, start to focus on in order to relax? Not just for the wellness of our being but also for the health of our body. We can all benefit from being able to relax. While we acknowledge the need to be able to relax our body the ultimate purpose is to offer you some wisdom, insights and methods to relax your mind, your intellect and YOU the spiritual being! As you do you may rediscover your own inner peace (which has been there all along), free your mind and help you to manage your energies more effectively during increasingly busy days. The purpose of this online ‘relaxation resource’ is not to help you plan the specifics of your jogging timetable, design your diet or recommend holiday destinations. Hence the wisdom in the saying, ‘rest does not come with sleeping, it comes with waking’! This, in turn, is the basis of the wellness of our being and our physical health. The truth is much more freeing – when we ‘enlighten’ our spirit (our self), then relaxation follows naturally, and our true peaceful, loving and contented nature is restored. This is still an illusion sustained by many of today’s ‘relaxation industries’. We are also realising that we have been misled by the mythology of ‘get your body right and your mind will follow’. At the heart of learning to relax is the art of caring for all levels of our being – body, mind and spirit. This short poem uses simple language to capture the calm of the sea.We all now recognise that relaxation is much more than a game of tennis, a walk in the mountains or a hot bath. The finest poet of the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes (1902-67) often writes about the lives of African Americans living in America, especially in New York, in the early twentieth century, but he also wrote well about nature. Sometimes calm can be anything but soothing: it can seem unnatural, even ominous. Here she meditates on the calm that a deep peace brings: Yet at its best, Teasdale’s work has a lyricism and beauty which can rival that of many poets of her time. Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) was an American lyric poet whose work is often overlooked in discussions of twentieth-century American poetry. The poem, with its recurring refrain to ‘sleep safe till tomorrow’, might be thought of as a lullaby. Whilst Orion’s sword glistens and the serpent writhes, all is peaceful and calm on earth. This poem from another of America’s greatest modernist poets looks to the stars for its subject – and, specifically, the constellations. William Carlos Williams, ‘ Peace on Earth’. Subjective personal experience appears objectively real.Ĩ. Of course, seems is the key word, but Stevens doesn’t use it: for him, or for the book-reader in the poem, the world was calm. The house in which this solitary reader reads their book is quiet, and the whole world seems calm. ‘The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm’ is a lyric poem reflecting on an experience that will be familiar to many readers of poetry (and readers of this blog): reading late into the night. It’s also about how the act of reading, the quiet of the house, and the solitariness of the house-dweller intersect. This poem is about the intersection of different sensory experience, and how their combination creates a particular mood or moment. Stevens is one of the great American modernist poets of the twentieth century. Wallace Stevens, ‘ The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm’. Philip Larkin was an admirer, praising her ‘steely stoicism’.ħ. She went on to influence a range of later poets, including Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ford Madox Ford, and Elizabeth Jennings. Goblin Market and Other Poems was the first collection of her poetry to be published, and it was the book that brought her to public attention. It ran simply: ‘Cecilia never went to school / Without her gladiator.’ She composed her first poem while still a very young girl she dictated it to her mother. She was the younger sister (by two years) of the Pre-Raphaelite artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. For night has come and the great calm has ceased,Īnother poem about the pleasant calm of the late evening as the day ends, giving way to night.Ĭhristina Rossetti (1830-94) was one of the Victorian era’s greatest and most influential poets.
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