If you're looking for permission to rest. Here it is.
Lie down. Take a nap. Go to bed.
Take a day off. Take a week off. Take a year off.
This is non negotiable. You need rest.
You are not being lazy. You are not being useless. You were not built to be on the go non-stop.
Do not underestimate the amount of spiritual and emotional recovery you might need. Heaven knows you've been through a lot. And even if you you're safe and secure, it doesn't mean it didn't take immense strength to get you to this place.
Breathe.
Relax.
Repeat.
If you're otherwise healthy but feeling tired, take some time to rejuvenate your soul. Take a break.
This is advice I've been giving myself lately. I was conditioned to think resting in an otherwise insane life made me lazy and that is a tough belief to release. But now, I plan on halting all ambitions and future planning until the new year. Right now I really want to take things day by day and catch up with myself. My plan is to take care of my immediate responsibilities then find ways to turn my brain off instead of constantly thinking about what I could or should be doing next.
If that means endless naps, so be it.
If that means cooking simpler meals or eating out more often, so be it.
If that means bingeing games, movies and travel shows instead of studying another productivity book, so be it.
If that means I don't make new connections because I'm staying in or spending time alone, so be it.
If that means putting cosmetics and hair cuts on extended leave because society can accept you the way you are, so be it.
If that means halting progress on your big goals and projects because you just don't have it in you to give them the energy they deserve, so be it.
So be it. So be it. So be it.
Nothing is going anywhere, and if something leaves you when you're in a period of rest and recovery, that could mean you didn't need it.
If you're anything like me and the people I know, proper rest is really tough. Even if you have the time and the right environment, your brain just won't comply. I say I 'm going to take the rest of the year off but I'm already fighting my mind about all the things I could be accomplishing. But I can't run on empty and neither can you.
I've given us both permission. Let's pencil ourselves in and chill out.
Lots of love,
Ara
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