"Tension is who you think you should be.
Relaxation is who you are."
Chinese proverb
(Etymol. Dic.: Relaxe: c.1420, "to make (something) less compact or dense," from O.Fr. relaxer (14c.), from L. relaxare "relax, loosen, open," from re- "back" + laxare "loosen," from laxus "loose". Of persons, attested from 1837, "to become less formal;" meaning "to become less tense" is recorded from 1935. Relaxation "relief from work" first recorded 1548.)
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"Our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to but who we are right now."
Pema Chödrön
