Welcome to the WOW Card of the Week series. A new card will be featured every week for you to think about, mull over, and maybe change something to fill your life with well-being and wonder.

Your Words of Wisdom (WOW) Guidance Card of the Week May 7-13, 2023, is here!

REST

Allow your mind and body to LET GO.

Definition: Stillness, Sleep, Receive, Relax

Other: Meditate, At Peace, Pause, Replenish

Opposite: Action, Exertion, Movement, Force

Sleep is not needed to rest but rest is needed to sleep.

For me, resting is a quick way to shift my negative thoughts to better feeling thoughts.

I aim to include a high percentage of my thoughts as positive ones and to do that I need to take good self-care measures such as enough rest, nutrition, hydration, and motion.

Today is a prime example of taking the necessary steps to get the rest I need. I felt like I was doing and experiencing too much and wanted to take today and perhaps tomorrow as rest days to nurture and fill up my cup. I am planning to be off social media for a few days. I also see a nap in my future, I’m listening to soothing sounds and I am writing which always replenishes me.

I’ve also been for a walk with my dog and spent time out in the yard enjoying the warm sunshine and beauty at my fingertips.

How do you get the rest you need?

Here are some ideas:

Ways to Rest
• Soothe yourself
• Nap
• Get still
• Receive
• Listen to peaceful music or sounds
• Meditate
• Journal
• Unplug from media or electronics
• Be out in nature
• Diffuse essential oils
• Bathe

”Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.” – Ralph Marston

How can you live life better by allowing yourself the gift of rest today?

Find the Good,
Becky and Janette


Originally posted on May 6, 2020, written by Janette Stuart

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