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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“rest” is the combination “I am not doing anything right now that is stressful” + “I am not expected to be doing anything right now not under my complete control”
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latter bit is confusing—it’s important that I not feel like someone else is expecting me to do something, but I be doing something that I want to be doing
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completely serious question, not rhetorical in the slightest: how do you know what you wanna do?
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very similar sensation to Scott’s “fascination lottery”, where doing the thing is feels effortless, enjoyable, and actualizing
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okay i think i can do that sometimes but i don’t think i feel relaxed while doing it 🤔
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that’s fair—I’ve spent entire weeklong vacations unable to really relax because I never felt the complete absence of friction. It’s a pretty temperamental state, especially with modern (ie 9-5, social life) commitments
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