This is a brilliant article. I will admit to not knowing what rest is. I just don't know how to do 'it'. My brain is so busy, my life so fast paced, that when it comes to a natural slow, I become lost in the wilderness of silence - my brain uploads an error code when it doesn't have something to do! That's not to say I can't appreciate silence. I lay in bed at night in a pitch black room and breathe a sigh of relief into that silence. I can sit on top of a mountain and appreciate the solitude and space. But, for the life of me, I cannot rest in the hours that I'm expected to be productive, and for that reason, I will take your article on board to try and understand the 7 different types of rest.
Wishing you a peaceful Christmas season and a prosperous new year ♥️
Thanks Louise, I think a lot of people struggle with this idea of inner permission to rest when we think we could or should be doing things. No easy answers here, but I have found thinking about the different kinds of rest useful as well as trying to resist the idea that rest also needs to be productive, useful, beautiful or shared. I think switching off digital life helps too as well as acknowledgeding it out loud with other people. Permission gives permission so it's good to talk about it! Hope you have a peaceful Christmas xx
I've been really intentional with taking time off over the Christmas/holiday period this year, as other years I've mainly worked through it. And I have to say, I've noticed the same...I am struggling to rest in a way that doesn't just involve sleeping. I thinking it's also a shift that just takes a bit of time to land and I'll get there (wherever there is) soon. I hope you don't see this til the new year :)
Love this!!!
Diolch, Mari xx
This is a brilliant article. I will admit to not knowing what rest is. I just don't know how to do 'it'. My brain is so busy, my life so fast paced, that when it comes to a natural slow, I become lost in the wilderness of silence - my brain uploads an error code when it doesn't have something to do! That's not to say I can't appreciate silence. I lay in bed at night in a pitch black room and breathe a sigh of relief into that silence. I can sit on top of a mountain and appreciate the solitude and space. But, for the life of me, I cannot rest in the hours that I'm expected to be productive, and for that reason, I will take your article on board to try and understand the 7 different types of rest.
Wishing you a peaceful Christmas season and a prosperous new year ♥️
Thanks Louise, I think a lot of people struggle with this idea of inner permission to rest when we think we could or should be doing things. No easy answers here, but I have found thinking about the different kinds of rest useful as well as trying to resist the idea that rest also needs to be productive, useful, beautiful or shared. I think switching off digital life helps too as well as acknowledgeding it out loud with other people. Permission gives permission so it's good to talk about it! Hope you have a peaceful Christmas xx
Yes to all this, a million times! Have a wonderful rest Carys x
Thanks, Bonnie! Part of me feels like I should have been more upbeat, but I resusted that too 😅
I've been really intentional with taking time off over the Christmas/holiday period this year, as other years I've mainly worked through it. And I have to say, I've noticed the same...I am struggling to rest in a way that doesn't just involve sleeping. I thinking it's also a shift that just takes a bit of time to land and I'll get there (wherever there is) soon. I hope you don't see this til the new year :)