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Your leisure time is the time you have when you are not at work or doing chores. Working in your dream job and continually living your dream life will create and sustain a wonderfully clear and expansive energy field which will nourish you. However most of us are not working in our dream jobs and so it's our leisure time that provides the opportunity to nourish ourselves, recharge and try something new.

     

For many leisure time doesn't include much leisure.Many people take their work attitude into their leisure time. Leisure time by nature cannot have a work attitude or feel- only a leisurely one. For those that can adopt a leisurely attitude in leisure time often at the end a work attitude reappears and judges the leisure time and pursuits as misspent. "Think what I could have achieved if I hadn't sat in the cafe, read a book, relaxed." This devaluing of leisure time if often fueled by the belief that there simply isn't enough time for people to do what they want. Life is simply too busy and too many other people depend or have expectations of them. The devaluation of leisure time lead to the denial of opportunity to relax, refuel and expand our energies and thus re calibrate on a body, mind, spirit level. Being so busy many aren't even realizing they are denying their inner life force. To paraphrase a minister on the radio in Sydney many today are sick with busy-ness and affluenza...

Could this be you? What are you doing with your leisure time? Household chores? Being a dutiful friend and family member? Doing/being what other people are expecting? Filling spare time with extra work hours? The job needs to get done after all...?

Work and chores do need to be done. Friends and family do need to be seen and can bring loving and supportive energy into your life. Be mindful, however, if you have traded your 'you' time of pure potentiality love and support, for something that feels like a monotonous to do list.

You are a free flowing energy being made of a body, a mind and a spirit and your well being depends on having harmony with all aspects of yourself. If your work time focuses on meeting the needs of your physical life (most peoples' do), and your leisure time does not nourish the other aspects of you, your sense of well being will disappear and you will begin to bankrupt your overall system. This leads to unhappiness and possibly even ill health. It certainly leads you to becoming resentful of all those people who need something from you and all those jobs that need to be done.

It is possible to meet the needs of all aspects of you but more than likely you will need to become more conscious of what you are thinking, feeling and doing in your leisure time and collectively how this impacts you and your overall well being. This requires honesty and possibly even pen and paper to record activities as it is very easy to believe you behave and spend time differently from how you actually do. Possibly the pen and paper exercise will show you how you could benefit from better organization. Possibly it will show you the need to split leisure time into domestic, social and personal leisure time. After all concepts of time management isn't just to fit in more but to help create more time. You can choose to use this as space and opportunities to feel fulfilled, refreshed, and more positive.

There are wonderful books and people that are able to help you become conscious of your needs and your choices if you don't know where to start. After all it's difficult to assess what's more/less important when all of it is in your head, your to do list is never ending and you simply feel you have no time!

You and your well being are so important, especially when others depend on you, for as you spend your time and energy so that time and energy must be regained and you honored

and re-filled. Otherwise you, and everyone who depends upon you, will eventually suffer.

If you wish to achieve or maintain open, expansive and positive energy, let your work be your work, your to do list be filled with that which matters and your leisure time filled with leisurely feeling activities, whatever that means for you.

Someone I know recently went ab sailing. She was terrified but had recognized she was overwhelmed by her life and wanted something different. After she crossed the rock ledge and was on her descent she realized that it made no difference whether she descended 20, 50 or even 500 meters. The scary part was leaving the ledge. This experience has given her the insight and confidence she needed to change the aspects of her life that were not working for her. Her day of leisure activity has given her entire life new meaning and perspective. Now you may not feel both a fear and attraction of ab sailing but what is that you could try that may hold a missing link for you? A vegetable garden, fish and two chickens may be work for some but have proven to be leisure and joy filled for me :)