
What Does It Mean to Really, Truly Rest?

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
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There is seven types of rest:
1-Physical Rest: naps, sleep, yoga, streching…
2-Sensory Rest: reducing the inputs that you take, dimming the lights etc…
3-Mental Rest: using methods like pomodoro to reduce mental overload
4-Emotional Rest: Talking to a terapist, journaling…
5-Creative Rest: crafting, writing, creating things in general…
6-Social Rest:
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