- [[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