Rest is an inherent part of the natural world. All around us things ebb, flow, rise, fall, frost, melt, shine and hide. As human beings, why would be excluded from this law of nature? <\/p>\n
Rest is rich with merit, and yet our culture has discouraged us from having it, instructing us to override our instincts and instead push forward in a perpetual hustle. We’ve gone so far as to turn busyness into a badge of honor and twist rest into a source of shame. <\/p>\n
But that’s a losing proposition. We’re overriding our natural rhythms instead of embracing their wisdom. When we should be rising and falling like the seasons and the moon and the tides, we’re burning ourselves out, buzzing and flickering erratically like a cheap neon light. <\/p>\n
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We’ve forgotten how to rest. In fact, many of us are downright scared<\/em> of rest. And yet, without rest, we can’t really do, be or achieve our best. <\/span><\/p>\n So let’s reclaim rest, shall we? Because we all do our best when we let ourselves have a little rest.<\/p>\n I know that transitioning into rest can be a little tricky when we’ve been jammed in fifth gear for weeks or months or years on end. <\/p>\n So I wrote something for those times when we need a little help landing into a season of rest. It’s part permission slip, part prayer. It’s an invocation, a way to invite yourself into the energy of rest. <\/span>It’s a blueprint, a checklist, a reminder of all the ways rest builds us into something better.<\/p>\n Print it out, read it out, rest, rise, repeat. <\/p>\n This is how I honor the ebbing tides and waning moons of my life:<\/em><\/p>\n By sinking in when my body whispers \u201cgo slow.\u201d <\/em> This is how I honor the wisdom of the tides within me. <\/em> This is how I move with utmost power. <\/em> This is how I trust myself. <\/em> This is how I leverage my internal tides and harness their unstoppable energy. <\/em> This is how I take back my power and rebel against the artificial currents of urgency and importance. <\/em> This is how I expand my capacity. <\/em> This is how I harness the full dynamism of my potential; the voltage, the vigor, the virtue.<\/em> This is how I nourish myself and create a fruitful future.<\/em> This is how I regather my resources. <\/em> So I can rise again. <\/em> \n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rest is rich with merit, and yet our culture has discouraged us from having it. Reclaim your right to rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nRECLAIM YOUR RIGHT TO REST<\/span><\/h3>\n
An invocation for transitioning into rest. <\/h3>\n
\nBy getting quiet when I can\u2019t hear clearly. <\/em>
\nBy tending carefully to the coals and feeding them something fresh to transform when it feels like the fire is burning low.<\/em>
\nBy planting my feet firmly on the ground when fear wants me to run in circles.<\/em>
\nBy wrapping myself in layers of trust when uncertainty has left me shaky and shivering. <\/em>
\nBy smoothing myself out with a firm and gentle hand when my mind feels creased and crumpled with shadows and sharp edges.<\/em>
\nBy making space to breathe into my belly so my heart and mind can return to a rhythm of coherence when confusion has taken hold. <\/em>
\nBy attending to just one thing at a time when my attention has become divided and my thoughts have become divisive. <\/em>
\nBy letting myself be swept up in the arms of play when productivity has outstayed her welcome. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nBy moving with less push and more flow.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nBy letting my instincts animate my actions.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nBy turning up the volume on my inner wisdom. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nBy stopping for a while. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nBy following the intelligence of my own energy and emotions. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nBy contracting into a smaller shape from time to time. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nBy conserving energy when it\u2019s called for. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nBy letting myself not just tolerate the quiet, the dark, the rest, but relish it. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nBy resting, simply. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nWIth more potency and more presence and more self-possession.<\/em>
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