hmm. what is resting 🤔 how do you do it 🤔🤔🤔
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looking to crowdsource responses, RTs appreciated:
what sorts of activities feel like “rest” or “relaxation” to you? how can you tell? what do “rest” and “relaxation” feel like to you? physically? emotionally?
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Have you read "Rest In Motion"?
Rest is taking anything at its natural, comfortable pace. It's mostly opposite to rushing, but dawdling isn't restful either.
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So for me specifically: games/TV/books but not for too long, journalling, gardening, cooking, sometimes cleaning, hands-on arts and crafts, singing, dancing...
Because of my job I find it hard to find things that are intellectually strenuous restful, I think.
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how can you tell that those things are restful / relaxing? like what’s happening in your body as you do them?
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It's more the lack of accumulation of stress from going at the wrong pace that's relaxing in itself?
I guess relaxation is just the absense of stress, in all sorts of ways
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