Here are the seven types of rest:
🛏 Physical rest: This type of rest helps your body recover from strenuous activities. Some examples of physical rest include napping, relaxing, sleeping, and even massages or yoga.
🧠 Mental rest: Rest for your mind is important, especially for those who experience racing thoughts or have trouble sleeping. Taking breaks, journaling, or other types of mental health self-care will allow you to mentally rest.
🤯 Emotional rest: To emotionally rest is to allow yourself to be real and authentic with others as well as yourself. Emotional rest gives you the time and space to feel your feelings and openly express them.
👃👂 Sensory rest: Everywhere we look there is some type of sensory stimulation like TVs, phone screens, bright lights, and music. Sometimes we need rest, a break, and time to ourselves from all the outside stimuli that may overwhelm our senses.
🎨 Creative rest: For our creative minds out there, this rest is for you! To achieve creative rest is to take the pressure “to do” off of yourself. Creative rest can look like taking a step back from projects or problem solving and sitting in nature to appreciate what you see around you.
👪 Social rest: This type of rest requires you to understand how you function around others. Do you gain energy from social interactions or do they drain you? Realizing your needs in social settings can help you make decisions about how frequently and for how long you spend in crowds or other social settings. This doesn’t necessarily mean you have to separate yourself from others, but more so being more deliberate in how and when you spend your time.
🕊️🧘 Spiritual rest: Spiritual rest relates to our connection and relationship with something deeper and greater than ourselves. This rest can look like intentional time in meditation, prayer, community building, or other practices that give us life.
What type of rest do you need today?
