Where does the fast lane go?
“I am a marketing executive working for a company. We are Authorized Channel Partners for a large company. I have big goals to meet every month, but due to current market conditions I can’t achieve them. The job is a lot of pressure and the stress level is too high for me, how can I accept it?
This person is one of millions trying to live in the fast lane and keep their nerves intact. He is young, educated, dynamic and… blaster! The pace of modern life seems so fast, just a whirlwind of minutes, hours, and days.
Living in the fast lane is intoxicating. The mind is fully charged and the body keeps pumping more adrenaline into the bloodstream. People are momentarily high, but the high is overshadowed by the low that comes their way.
In metropolitan cities, it is normal to travel to work for an hour each way. Has anyone thought what effect it has on the nervous and physical system?
Joyce Walsleben, director of the New York University Sleep Disorders Center, says of her research: “We found that people who commute a lot, regardless of their weight, obesity, age or any other factor, tend to have high blood pressure. highest blood pressure and many of them had hypertension.
Walsleben conducted a study of 21,000 Long Island Railroad commuters who traveled more than one hour and fifteen minutes between work and home. “Half of them couldn’t stay awake when they had to or couldn’t fall asleep when they wanted to,” she says.
Today’s teens have adapted to busy schedules like they would a second skin. They compromise – in sleep, in homework, in social life. They learn to get ahead. Whatever it takes to balance school, sports activities, part-time jobs and family obligations, to fill a place in college, to have money to spend…
Fast food, fast relationships, fast success… people need everything fast. Eating on the go is the most popular way to eat. Seventy percent of people in the United States prefer to eat at a self-service restaurant. “The fast-paced, time-constrained lifestyle we’ve developed as a society over the last decade is driving the demand for self-service,” says Stephen Spence, a former vice president at Southwest Securities in Dallas. “It’s an integral part of the way we eat today.”
However, it is not only in the United States that the fast food craze has taken off. Restaurants and fast lounges have mushroomed around the world and are never short of customers.
Life is more exciting but also more exhausting. The signs of fast lane fatigue are in evidence. It’s clear that the fascination with speed and efficiency has taken a more serious turn. Many people live in the fast lane, with or without the knowledge that the road ends at a cliff.
But does that mean we should reverse gear and go back to the old days? Certainly not. There is no rewind in the timeline. What is smarter and more creative is to turn the situation into a blessing. Create new devices to relax in the fast lane. Let life run full speed ahead as you sit back and relax in the whirlwind of activity.
It is said that contemporary man has everything except time. Totally true. But what about the one-minute meditations? Why not make the most of every minute?
This is what this post is about. There are many fast lane relaxation techniques for you. It’s fun, it’s not a serious matter. Life is so short, who has time for long and serious meditations? Let the agitation be on the surface. Think of the ocean where in the depth there are no waves, no turbulence. It is simply a matter of entering.
If you have a long commute every day, use that time to talk gibberish to relieve tension. But, sit back and watch the mind. Let the vehicle turn at full speed, you can slow down inside. Be aware of the gaps in thoughts, in feelings, in breaths, between two gears or two cars… Look for the gaps and your energy will fall into a relaxed space.
Life is full of competition. You can compete with yourself.
Who doesn’t have the blues? But you can dance them away.
Especially in these times of panic and fear, holding on to our sanity is imperative. If the future seems increasingly bleak, start living in the present. Go deeper and deeper in each moment and life in the fast lane will transform. Then you will begin to enjoy it without having to suffer from its side effects.
We are truly at the crossroads of world history. It is absolutely up to us which fork to take, whether it be towards fear, anxiety and eventually global suicide; or towards responsibility, awareness and love – the golden future.