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5-Minute Refresh: The Door that Opens

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The challenges of our current collective moment, and of your individual circumstances, may be taking more energy than you even realize.

At Tweetspeak, we are ever conscious of the ways that poetry can help restore and revitalize. Our occasional 5-Minute Refresh series offers a brief respite, with an invitation to give your soul a refresh.

Try this activity with a phrase from a recent Every Day Poems offering, Do Not Despair by Richard Maxson (the phrase was shared in our Poetry Club by Bethany Rohde).

The Refresh

• Sit in a comfortable chair. If you are at the office and have no choice of chairs, turn your chair away from your desk.

• Turn your hands upwards, and open them. Let the tension release. Is there tension in your neck? Let that release, too.

• Breathe in for as long as you can, deeply. Then breathe out for as long as you can. Do this three times.

• Do the exercise over again, but this time with the following lines of poetry running through your mind:

you cannot always choose
the door that opens your life

That’s it! Your 5-minute refresh. Repeat as needed throughout your day.

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Looking for more inspiring lines? Check out the Every Day Poems poetry club room, where we feature additional favorite lines submitted by readers.

(Comments intentionally removed to encourage quiet reflection.)

Photo by 婠 玥, Creative Commons, via Flickr.

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