#47 - The Art of Rest, Part 7: with Wisdom from Sadhguru and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The Calm & Free Podcast with Pooja Mottl
English - August 23, 2021 12:00 - 5 minutes - 5.41 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 to our last and final episode on Rest - a human superpower. In the last five episodes we’ve explored some of the biological and societal implications for our unhealthy relationship with rest, we’ve also practiced a meditation, celebrated Winnie the Pooh’s love for "doing nothing" and talked out how our misgivings about rest link to burnout.
This whole series has referred to rest as a human superpower – why?
When I first started meditating using some of the practices taught by humanitarian and spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, he often spoke about letting your mind expand. It took me many years to start to unravel this idea of expansion and be able to conceptualize it. Expansion is relaxation. It is ease. It is calm.
Once you’re able to expand the mind, you find ease, and when you find ease, you find joy.
Yoga guru and best selling author Sadhguru, who recently sat down with Tony Robbins on his podcast, thinks of ease as the cornerstone of the good life. Without ease, he says, it is impossible to have lasting joy and happiness. Ease it everything.
In fact, he says, ease and rest are the basis of activity. Someone who is constantly resting within herself or himself is capable of endless, dynamic activity.
In other words, if you are at rest inside, you become a powerful force on the outside – able to unleash all of your greatness into the world and into life.
So rest is a superpower – this is why we’ve talked about it this way throughout this entire series. Rest is a tool to make you great. To give you freedom. To enrich your life.
So rest is something to cultivate and I’ll leave it with all of you now to ponder and deliberate further about how you can add more ease and rest to your already beautiful existence. Love to all and see you next time.
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