Personal sustainability is not just an idea. It is the best way to keep Antifragile life style which is much more productive, healthy, effective and efficient in short and long run and obviously much more pleasant in our fast time changes. To keep it you need to have an optional rest, which means a good choice between public and private high quality life.
I would like to present you one of my best methods of quick deep antifragile relaxation: personal place for a tea ceremony.
Asian treasures like tea ceremony are focused on deep high quality relaxation. Obviously we have no enough time for the whole ceremony on the go, but all of the details of a short ceremony can be customized for your needs and so perfectly work. Here it is my portable office tea set I carefully designed to make myself a private place whatever I am, with full aesthetics and meditative mood. When I am trevelling I easily have it with me. it is light weight and changeble in details so I can make it easier or more complex.
My resently added detail is Chinese folding screens with different designes. I have a small collection of it, with the same size 6-parts folding screen, with different paintings on it. So I could make differencies just choosing a different screen, keeping the whole details of the ceremony the same. This is the feature of sustainability and antifragility: to keep the best, to change details.
As you see on the picture, that tea set consists of two main parts: one for the main scenes and one for using. The main scene includes one folding screen, the mat to stand it, a small fireplace to warm the teapot with hot water and the violet vase with candle inside I use as a insense burner. For trevelling I have a very small insense burner or take it out of the scene. The main scene carry the athmosphere of relaxation, pleasant and cool for my eyes. It make me relaxing and calm in many ways, because I choose all of the details carefully and all is really customized. Even the design of the folding screen: for a quick effective relaxation during my work I need a folding screen with bright active design. It looks exellent in any time, from morning to everning. it keeps me relaxing but not so much soft because after 15-20 minutes I wil be back to my work.
The set for using includes one 150 ml teapot for the tea, one tea cup (here you can see my new one, jade-green with a red fish barelief, a present from my Chinese friend), one teapet (a bull from clay, in the original Chinese tea ceremony they use it to wet it with the rest of the tea making a kind of symbolic offering for the company). In the main details it is enough. But I like to enjoy my tes with honey so you can see here a small glass cup for honey with special silver tea spoon presenting by my mom. All of this are placed on the round bamboo teatray with grass mat from Vietnam. So, you can see the representatives of the whole Asia in one teaset on my work table.
It is not important how much you relaxing place costs. I prefer to found a way to the less price, just because the high prices doesn`t reflect eny of your personal choice. The challenge is to make everything so customized so nobody can have the same. All of the details should be attached to you best feelings, imagination, memory, to be associated with right people and have very right size to keep your body and soul well belenced.
This is the way to allow your feelings be fresh, and you mind to work better, more optimized. If you are a tea fan as I am, ou can try to collect the same teaset. If you like another beverages, you could try to make something for it. Just keep the idea about Antifragile decisions. New things is fragile, just a flavour of the week. Ols ceremonies and old traditions keep the true essense of Antifragilily, that`s why they can generate the energy while modern things just to waste your attention away.
Keeping you mind Antifragile, you will gain more in the best way.
From my side I will tell your about my own methods, like that teaset, to encourage you to found the very special ways, the best for yourself, like no others. That`s what I always do. For example right now I am after 16-pages document about the global project development and the next stage of mind mapping. After that post I will keep my work being refreshed.
To provide you with the best, I would like to remind you the book which describe things I always do, so let me to keep my work while somebody alse did his job serving you: Nassim Nicholas Taleb "Antifragile: things that gain from Disorder":
