Claudia Hammond, author of The Art of Rest, shares her advice.
‘Don’t feel guilty about resting’: Why rest is so important and how you can do it better
“You might be able to get more rest than you think. If you find cooking restful then that can count, as well as exercise or a train journey, provided you find it restful.”“Don’t feel guilty about resting”, says Claudia. In The Rest Test, more women said that they felt guilty whenever they rested, because there is always something else to be doing. One way of giving yourself permission to rest is to recognise the benefits it has for your mental health.
“It does mean very different things to different people. For some people, it’s something that isn't active, like watching TV, and for others it’s exercise. For some people, they can't stop those thoughts whirring round and round in their brain until their body is exhausted. So, choose whatever you find restful.”“The top five activities in The Rest Test were all things people tend to do alone”, says Claudia.
“But if somebody would say to you, ‘you can just rest now for 10 minutes and watch the world go by’, you might look at it differently. So, reframing those ‘wasted’ moments is another way of building some rest in. Perhaps you can get a tiny bit more rest than you think.
Find time to prescribe yourself 15 minutes of rest each day. Then put rest breaks in your diary like appointments.
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