Rx for Resilience: Rest
Summer is the ultimate time for R&R- rest and relaxation. Rest is often overlooked as a crucial component of overall well-being. It's not just about sleep, but encompasses a variety of ways to rejuvenate your mind, body and spirit. Rest repairs and rebuilds tissues, boosts immune function, regulates hormones, and enhances athletic performance.
Rest provides mental clarity, boosts mood, and reduces stress.You can rest by sleeping, slowing down through meditation, yoga, Tai Chi, Chi Gong, prayer, and/or listening to quiet music like the sounds of whales, wonderful windchimes, classical or indigenous music. Rest can also reflect any way that you chose to slow down, spending time alone or with loved ones. Plugging out from technology, news and noise fosters the inner and outer mindset of rest and relaxion.
Everyone needs rest including teachers, professional athletes, workers from all industries and fields, students, mothers, fathers, grandparents, and babies. GlobalMindED’s newsletter editor, Yusura Ali, just became a new mom in June to her son, Yusuf. She, her husband and Yusuf are learning new ways to rest and relax as Yusuf wakes up every two hours!
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