Seven Strategies for Recovery
1. Protect your schedule: Don't let distractions and time-wasters creep into your day.
2. Protect the asset...meaning yourself in sleep. I use CD8 to help me remember that we sleep best in a Cold, Dark room for 8 hours (though many kids do best with 10-12 hours).
3. In recovery, as you're falling asleep or in the bath, visualize what happened in the flow state earlier. Run it over in your mind, what you did and how it felt, so you can amplify the learning in flow the next time. Feeling it in your body makes it easier to get into flow the next time around.
4. Active not Passive Recovery: Avoid jumping on your phone or onto the television. Instead employ one of the active recovery techniques to support your mind and body.
5. Hydration/Nutrition: High-quality food and water give us the energy we need to play and work at our best. Eat the rainbow!
6. Yoga/Stretching: Flexibility of mind and body help us to be ready for high level learning. Get out of that chair, move around and stretch throughout the day.
7. Don't take your emotions too seriously: an emotion is nothing more than a signal for action, telling you to do something. After a flow state, we've expended so much energy that we can feel down or exhausted. Wait til you replenish before taking actions.
