Nau mai e te timatatanga o te wiki tuatoru.  Welcome to week 3 of lock down.  This week follows the Sunday when daylight saving ends, so clocks go back by 1 hour.  Today’s wellbeing tip is about: Exploring different ways to relax

Many of us haven’t stretched our ‘relaxation muscles’ in a long time, so it might take a bit of trial and error to find what works for you. Perhaps it’s lighting a scented candle, weeding the garden (maybe not), switching off with a good book, playing a board game, having a silent disco, talking to a friend, power naps, watching ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) videos online, exercise, pure barre, getting creative and making some art.  You might like to learn language, or try journaling, watching foreign tv series or mindful colouring. We all need to find things that help us switch off and reenergise our minds and bodies during alert level 4.  How might you make that extra hour count?