BEAUTIFUL CHILL EFFECTS

“Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life ingredients everybody needs and seeks.”

- Rasheed Ogunlaru

“A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation...is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.”

- George Matthew Adams

"Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being."

- Donald Curtis

“With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.”

- Yo-Yo Ma

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

- Kahlil Gibran

“Sometimes you simply need to drift aimlessly, in order to reach the destination of aim.”

- Lionel Suggs

“All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.”

- Jay Michaelson

“There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.”

- James Carroll

“The sensation of energy expands with increasing relaxation.”

- Ilchi Lee

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”

- Amit Ray

Read more about Beautiful Chill, as they relate to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact, including Welcome to a Week of Beautifully Chill, Wild Chill, Chill Fishing, Beautifully Chill Floatz, Where to Chill Now and Beautiful Chill Time.

Enter your own images and ideas about Beautiful Chill in this week’s creative Photo Competition. Open for entries now until 11:59 p.m. PT on 07.27.14. If you are reading this after that date, check out the current BN Creative Competition, and enter!

PHOTO CREDITS:

1. Photo: by Skedonk. Floating.
2. Photo: by Nature on the Edge of New York City. Floating on the Navesink River.
3. Photo: Courtesy of artisticINSURRECTION. Tide.
4. Photo: by Jason Pratt. “Mary Relaxing in the Tobago Cays.”
5. Photo: by Tom Gill. “Low Ceiling, High Waves.”
6. Photo: Courtesy of Being in Focus. Floating Leaf.
7. Photo: by Jose Carlos Norte. “Floating Red Balloon.”
8. Photo: by Andris. Floating.
9. Photo: by Tfioreze. “Clouds over the Atlantic Ocean.”
10. Photo: Courtesy of Where the Wind Blows. Beach.