The Founder of the Nap Ministry on the Ways Rest Can Be a Form of Resistance
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The Founder of the Nap Ministry on the Ways Rest Can Be a Form of Resistance
Capitalism tells us this. Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey takes a deep dive into this link exploring how capitalism and white supremacy are at the heart of our inability to rest. These learnings have been crucial to my rest practices and are now weaved into my Yoga classes and wellbeing offerings because of it.
Jodie Melissa Rogers • Why we feel guilty & uncomfortable when resting
David Pennington added
There is a real revolution needed before rest can truly be one. And that revolution means that we still have work to do, especially those of us who have more privilege in society. If we want us all to be able to rest, and we want that rest to truly heal and affirm our humanity, then those of us who have the time, money, and freedom to rest must tak
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In addition to our drive to build a better world, we also live in a time when productivity and impact feed the lies we believe about ourselves. The constant pressure to do more, to fill up our schedules, to work harder. But we have to stop the busyness or we will be stopped by burnout and exhaustion. Stillness teaches us restraint, and in restraint
... See moreChristopher L. Heuertz • The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth
We need not just rest but a certain quality of rest: deep inner rest, rest from the inner murmur that says we are defined by what we do, what we have, or by what others think of us.
Ken Shigematsu • God in My Everything: How an Ancient Rhythm Helps Busy People Enjoy God
Lael Johnson and added
For those whose lives are relentlessly structured, there can be a deep exhaustion in the body which is barely satisfied by a full night’s sleep. That exhaustion is less of a need for rest than it is the bone-deep dispiritedness that comes from our slavery to schedules and directedness. In such cases, it’s best to follow the exhaustion, despite how
... See moreToko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
Of course, given the screaming, incessant demands of the modern world, authentic rest sounds like a utopian fantasy. Who has time to do nothing? But rest is not nothing; it is essential to who we are and what we can become. Far from being mere “down time” or a boring break in the action, rest is a time of crucial metabolic and psycho-spiritual reor
... See moreFrank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist
consider the relationship between restiveness and repose, and how the ease of a small stratum of the global population is predicated on extracting wealth, health, and rest from the masses. It holds a mirror up to the overstimulated, sleep-deprived societies of our present day.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
Part of the reason we can’t truly find rest is that we are trying to validate our existence to ourselves or to other people. To experience full rest, we need to be free from the voice of self-condemnation.