Meditation

I have had a stressful three months. Troops of contractors have rolled through my home. Things have been damaged. The noise was deafening during many days. I felt like an intruder in my own rooms. At one point, I hid in the basement, the only place where workmen were not busy. 

Meditation was my key to maintaining my relative calm and perseverance. Every day I secured a space where I meditated for 20-30 minutes. Sometimes it was my small carpeted attic under a low dormer. Those periods of meditation were remarkably revitalizing. It never failed. I came from those meditations with surplus energy for the rest of my day.

If you do not meditate or have never meditated, I recommend you try to start a regime of daily meditation for your health and mental well being. Give it one week. Every day find a quiet place, close your eyes and simply breathe deeply for 10-15 minutes. I find it best to do my meditation in the middle of the day. However, day workers may find it helpful before work or after work.