“Is it the world that’s busy? Or is it my mind?” – I saw this in a book recently and it resonated.
Anyone else feeling like life is just a little outta control right now 🙋♀️
Maybe it’s time we stop blaming our busy-ness on all of the things we have to do (many of them being things we’ve given ourselves) and start looking for ways to allow ourselves more rest?
And I’m not talking day spas and sleep-ins (although they both sound goooood).
I’m talking ALL and ANY of the different types of rest described in the book ‘Sacred Rest’ by S Dalton-Smith.
💮 Physical Rest: The chance to use the body in restorative ways to decrease muscle tension, reduce headaches, and promote higher quality sleep.
💮 Mental Rest: The ability to quiet cerebral chatter and focus on things that matter.
💮 Spiritual Rest: The capacity to experience God in all things and recline in the knowledge of the Holy.
💮 Emotional Rest: The freedom to authentically express feelings and eliminate people-pleasing behaviours.
💮 Social Rest: The wisdom to recognise relationships that revive from ones that exhaust and how to limit exposure to toxic people.
💮 Sensory Rest: The opportunity to downgrade the endless onslaught of sensory input received from electronics, fragrances, and background noise.
💮 Creative Rest: The experience of allowing beauty to inspire awe and liberate wonder.