The Massively Underrated Value of Rest
Everybody needs a chance to rest.
Whether it’s merely a few minutes, a night, or an extended vacation, rest is essential to your health, wellness, and wellbeing. You might have things that need to be done frequently, but you still need to rest and relax from time to time. It is utterly essential to your health, wellness, and wellbeing.
Despite negative connotations in the idea of rest, such as slacking off, laziness, or other similar perceptions, there is tremendous value in resting.
Resting allows you to change your focus. Resting will enable you to recover from strains physical, mental, emotional, and/or spiritual. Getting rest gives you a chance to restart, alter your approach, and examine where you have been, where you are, and where you’re going.
So how come society doesn’t seem to like people to rest? I suspect that this is borne of the incessant need to always be productive, always be doing something, and always be in motion — lest you be perceived as inferior and as such get passed up, passed by, or otherwise fail.
It often feels like society rewards people who never stop, never slow, and never seem to take a break from action. However, you’re only human. Hence, you need to take breaks, to collect your thoughts, rest and recuperate, and take new…
