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Name: The Art of Rest
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Author: Claudia Hammond

Claudia Hammond

How to Find Respite in the Modern Age

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What’s in it for me? Learn how to incorporate more restfulness into your life.

If you find life stressful, you’re not alone. Life is stressful. From pressure at work to tension at home, unread emails to unwashed dishes – the little things add up, and the constant existential angst doesn’t get any easier. Luckily, there’s an easy antidote to stress: rest.

That’s why the largest survey on rest ever conducted, the Rest Test, tried to pinpoint precisely which activities people find most restful. In 2016, over 18,000 people from 135 countries responded to this 40-minute questionnaire. And the top ten restful activities made it into The Art of Rest.

These blinks offer insight into five of those ten activities. Along the way, they explain both why these activities are restful and how finding the right kind of rest could improve your life.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

how doing nothing can improve your memory;
what kind of music is most relaxing; and
the optimum balance between solitude and social life.

Stress causes damaging effects to health and well-being. Rest can help.

You can find it at your job. You can find it at home. In fact, you can find it pretty much anywhere. Current concerns can be a source of it, as can regrets about the past and worries about the future.

If all this riddling is stressing you out, well, that’s only appropriate – because stress is precisely what’s being referred to.

We live in stressful times. The hubbub of the bustling world demands an always-on mentality of chronic busyness. It can feel like there’s no time to slow down. Or, if there is, there’s still that nagging, guilty feeling that rest is undeserved.

But the consequences of not resting are potentially far more severe than a fleeting pang of guilt.

The key message here is: Stress causes damaging effects to health and well-being. Rest can help.

The dangers of too much stress are well documented. A 2018 study by the Mental Health Foundation found that half a million people in the UK experience work-related stress. And according to the same research, nearly three-quarters of Brits felt so stressed at some point during the year that they couldn’t cope.

People who’re overwhelmed by stress also tend to sleep less. And this can have devastating consequences. One US study found that fatigue was responsible for 13 percent of workplace injuries. Sixteen percent of respondents also admitted to recently falling asleep at the wheel.

As if this weren’t enough, insufficient sleep is tied to a long list of potential health problems, from hypertension and stroke to mood disorders, obesity, and colorectal cancer. So getting quality sleep is essential.

Overtiredness – from lack of sleep or lack of rest – also affects your cognitive abilities. Exhaustion can cause memory lapses, trouble focusing, and impaired judgment. And tasks that might normally be a piece of cake can become much more difficult.

Adults aren’t the only ones suffering from too little rest. In UK schools, the last 20 years have seen break times eliminated to make more time for extra lessons. Today, only 1 percent of English secondary schools have an afternoon break, despite evidence indicating that breaks improve pupil concentration.

From baby boomers to millennials to Generation Z, we could all benefit from being more rested.

But here’s the thing: there’s only really one way to get sleep – by sleeping. Restfulness, on the other hand, can be found in many different activities while we’re awake.

Doing nothing in particular is a popular restful activity, but people still find it difficult.

What comes to mind when you hear the word rest?

Perhaps you think of practicing mindfulness, or vegging out in front of the television, or of going for a nice walk. You might relax by daydreaming, or by indulging in a hot bath.

Listening to slow music is relaxing, as long as you like the song and it’s not too complex.

Imagine you’re a volunteer in a psychology experiment at your university. You’ve just been given the task of solving some especially difficult anagrams. The problem is, your brain just can’t seem to crack the codes. What could these words be? Think!

To make matters worse, the other participant is making rapid progress. He easily solves the anagrams and uses the extra time to taunt you. He questions your intelligence. He wonders, aloud, how you ever got into college.

Small doses of alone time can be restful, as long as you choose the place and the time.

Perhaps you’ve noticed that many of the Rest Test’s most popular sources of restfulness are solitary activities. So it may make perfect sense that being alone also ranks high on the list: at number three, to be exact. Wanting to be alone is something we can all relate to.

Some respondents even put down some quality me-time as their favorite way to relax, in particular women under the age of 30. More social activities, such as spending time with friends and family, didn’t even make the top ten.

Spending time in nature can be restful and improve your mood.

Where do you spend most of your time alone? If you’re like most people, you spend it at home.

Now, where would you most like to spend your alone time? If you’re still like most people, the answer is in nature.

Reading is the most popular restful activity.

So maybe your lifelong fear of mosquitoes means that nature therapy isn’t your favorite restful activity. Maybe you’d rather stay indoors, nestled up with a novel. Not to worry.

In the Rest Test, 58 percent selected reading as their number-one way of getting rest. Reading beat out other activities like mindfulness and watching TV. And unlike late-night screen time, reading before bed isn’t linked to poorer sleep quality. Those who selected reading also had higher levels of self-esteem and optimism.

Prioritize the right kind of restfulness.

As we’ve seen, rest is an essential part of our well-being. In order to live healthy lives, we need to get enough of it. And the first step toward doing that is taking rest seriously.

We don’t treat sleep as a luxury, and yet restfulness is routinely considered a nice-to-have. Chances are, you know how many hours of sleep you got last night, and whether or not you slept well. But how many hours of rest did you get yesterday? What kind of rest was it? Was it enough?

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Worum geht es in The Art of Rest?

The Art of Rest (2019) is a deep dive into the world of rest. It takes the results of the Rest Test, an online survey of over 18,000 people across 135 countries about rest, and uses those results as a starting point to examine which activities people find most restful, and why two-thirds of respondents felt they didn’t get enough rest. Drawing on scientific research, it investigates the ten most popular ways to rest, and the difficulties and proven benefits behind each restful activity.

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It seems that having an eclectic musical taste might help us to relax better because, after all, we have a wide range of moods too.

—Claudia Hammond

Wer The Art of Rest lesen sollte

Anyone interested in wellness
Self-care enthusiasts
People who enjoy spending time alone

Über den Autor

Claudia Hammond is an award-winning author and psychology lecturer. She’s also a presenter for podcasts and radio shows such as BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind and the Health Check on BBC World Service. Her other books include Mind Over Money, Time Warped, and Emotional Rollercoaster.

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