07/20/2025
7 Types of Rest + Signs of Deficiency + Solutions
Physical Rest - Struggling to keep your eyes open or walking to bed feeling laborious?
* Solution: Try yoga nidra before bed and getting at least 8 hours of sleep
Mental Rest - Brain feels like mush, little concentration, or difficulty writing an email
* Solutions: Try taking a screen break, deep cleansing breaths, and even putting your feet on the earth to ground.
Social Rest - Socializing is exhausting or you feel intense anxiety thinking about gathering with friends?
* Solution: Try balancing the draining encounters with restorative ones. This means knowing who to share time with to refuel.
Creative Rest - Can’t seem to get the juices flowing for fun creative activities that you normally enjoy engaging in?
* Solution: Surround yourself with inspirational material to read, take a walk in nature, and even listen to your favorite playlist while dancing and singing. (Yup, this helps with REST!)
Emotional Rest - Experiencing a flood of emotions all at once and all you want to do is take a nap or stop going?
* Solution: Schedule a regular therapy session to offload your emotions in a healthy place with a professional listener. Or even offload your emotions in a journal or voice note to self.
Sensory Rest - Straining your eyes, neck tension, and/or lots of conflict in significant relationships?
* Solution: Check-in with yourself, put the remote aside at night, and/or take screen/noise breaks throughout the day
Spiritual Rest - Feel afloat, unanchored, alone?
* Solution: Seek out things that add a sense of meaning & purpose to your life, recite a calming mantra, yoga, engage in stillness to reconnect with self/source
What’s your go-to form of rest?
How do you fill your rest bucket?
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