#46 - The Art of Rest, Part 6: with Wisdom for Winnie the Pooh and Thich Nhat Hanh
The Calm & Free Podcast with Pooja Mottl
English - August 16, 2021 12:00 - 6 minutes - 5.97 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSelf-Improvement Education Society & Culture Personal Journals ancient wisdom business motivation mindfulness life lessons coaching spirituality greatness philosophy inner peace Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Welcome back as we explore the human superpower of rest. In this episode we’re going to dive into the idea of having a lazy day with nothing to do but rest.
Now you will recall rest isn’t sleep. Rest is our ability to power down the mind, get out of our analytical right brain, find stillness, and unplug our mind from the grind. Just like we need to rest our bodies, we need to rest our minds.
A great way to rest our minds is by allowing time to unfold without a schedule or checking your watch. Have you ever lived just one lazy day without having anything planned? Here’s how Thich Nhat Hanh beautifully describes a lazy day from his book How to Relax:
“Most of us have very scheduled lives and very full calendars. But do we have enough lazy days in our calendar? A lazy day is a day for us to be without any scheduled activities. We just let the day unfold naturally, timelessly. On this day we have a chance to reestablish the balance in ourselves. When we have unscheduled time, we tend to get bored or cast about for something to do. A lazy day is a chance to train ourselves not to be afraid of doing nothing. You might think that not doing anything is a waste of time. But that’s not true. Your time is first of all for you to be – to be alive, to be peace.”
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