Why Making Rest an Essential Part of Life and Simple TIPS

Tips to Help You Make Rest Essential

As we continuu to share ideas on sleeping well and better rest our topic today is Why making rest an essential part of life and simple tips. 

Nowadays people are expected to work like they don’t have families and spend time with their family like they don’t have work. It’s nearly impossible to be all things to all people and not become utterly exhausted. The facts are, if you don’t stand up for your right to rest, no one will. Making rest a priority in a busy world must start with you, and those around you must learn to accept and accommodate your healthy boundaries.

Rest can feel like an indulgence

Since we live in a world that glorifies being busy, it’s hard to imagine resting as being responsible. Taking time off, doing nothing, in particular, having no plans, or intentionally making plans to unplug and refresh seems indulgent. That’s a sad commentary on our culture. Recovering from exhaustion or preventing it altogether is nothing to feel guilty about!

Worry begins in the mind and expresses itself in the body

Worries are cerebral but they act out in aches, pains, and worse. Worrying over something begins in the mind and eventually manifests in issues like:

• Skin irritations
• Stomach and digestive troubles
• Anxiety - rapid heart rate, breathing issues
• Insomnia
• Muscle aches
• And more……

 As the mind works overtime, the body begins to express the pain, fear, and worry outward in multiple ways.

Whatever steals your joy makes your spirit weary

Life has its ups and downs. Things happen - both good and bad - and they make an impact and leave a mark. Life is meant to be experienced in its entirety. No one truly expects things to be great all the time. Loss comes, change happens, but life shouldn’t steal your joy altogether. 

Some things that steal your joy are small and often go unnoticed until the impact is great. There isn’t one particular experience that happens, more like a slow draining of your joy over time.  

Some things that steal your joy are small and often go unnoticed until the impact is great. There isn’t one particular experience that happens, more like a slow draining of your joy over time.  

Create a schedule that prioritizes rest

Most people rest at the end of the day when they’ve checked everything else off their lists. What’s the age-old motto? Work before play! Getting your work done is the responsible thing to do and rest is more of a reward than a naturally occurring activity. Creating a schedule that prioritizes rest can actually enhance your productivity and incentivize your work.  

Mental health days

Mental health days have great value. Being able to take a day off when you aren’t physically ill but mentally weary is as valuable as taking a sick day. Mental health days can revive your enthusiasm.

Protect your right to rest

Productivity has high value. Being seen as a productive person is high praise. Those who do… get. Those who sow… reap. We live in a time when multi-tasking is expected and those who produce the most while complaining the least are seen as the rock stars. Taking time off can seem like slacking. Resting looks like weakness. The messages are clear - Just Do It. 

Everyone needs a break. From time off each week to a vacation a couple of times a year, everyone needs a break from time to time. It’s your job to assert your right to rest and to protect it!

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