Something that has been brewing in my brain for a while that I don’t think I’ve talked about yet is a new-to-me concept that I have needed my whole adult life and never had ‘til now. I forget when exactly, but I think it was December of last year (?) that I came across a Pinterest pin of
the 7 Types of Rest:
• Physical Rest
• Mental Rest
• Social Rest
• Emotional Rest
• Sensory Rest
• Creative Rest
• Spiritual Rest
They’re fairly self-explanatory, I think? But the paradigm is unfamiliar. I am used to thinking of not
spending energy on socializing, but hadn’t really considered it a form of recharging. I know that I like to keep my stimulation low sometimes, but hadn’t considered that those times happen after I’ve been in crowds or noisy places or grocery stores - places full of sensory information, in other words.
To figure out which rests you and I need, let’s maybe list what types of rest we’re getting enough of - and by process of elimination, what we’re
not getting. Most of this post is going to be me figuring out what I need and it will be behind a
( cut ) https://circlesquareoval.com/spiritual-self-care-activities/https://brainwisemind.com/how-to-get-spiritual-rest/ -
The spiritual rest links I’ve found so far that aren’t poisoned by toxic evangelicalism.
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