- [[English Lesson]] - https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230120-five-ways-to-be-calm-and-why-it-matters - Five ways to be calm – and why it matters - serenity - Gelassenheit - **Stoic serenity** - put all into wider **perspective** - stay calm when making decisions - **Electronic escape** - soundtrack that will promote peacefulness like ambient rainforest sounds - **Art of tranquillity** - visual art, one viewer's tranquil, meditative experience - **Harmony of haiku** - Japanese poetry, haiku, which consists of 17 syllables in three lines - Zen idea of a oneness with creation - the composition of haiku is so intuitive, it is almost unconscious. - **Find your flow** - absorbed in something we love ...enter an almost trance-like state of calm, mesmerised - make a commitment to quiet time - Solution - look /seek / search work towards solutions - search is less formal - find / come up with / produce a / reach / work out solution - propose a solution - complete vs partial - agree on / arrive at solution - solution for/to sth - happy / neat / good / ideal solution - everyone is satisfied - Cares and concerns - stress you out - outwait sth. - wait till it is over - - -