If my Oura ring is right, my daytime fatigue isn’t from a lack of sleep or exercise. It’s from a lack of daytime rest.
Daytime rest? Like a nap? A siesta? Like someone else to make dinner and do laundry, drive my kids around and work?
Yeah, daytime rest.
Which is different from scrolling on the phone and calling it downtime. A rest, a mindful minute, a break from action.
I’ve been working with clients who hate meditation to find meditative moments throughout the day. Making coffee? Smell those beans and enjoy that experience. Watering the plants? Examine their color, texture and growth.
Open a window and breathe it that air. Take that air into your body, the wet and the growing, and let it transport you. Be present with the moment you are in.
Presence, awareness, sentience. Balm for the spirit.
For love, I found this podcast from Mel Robbins with guest Jay Shetty. It’s allegedly about goal setting, creating your future, yada yada, but it’s really about tools for getting out of your own way. After listening, I’m left with some action items: reach out with love to others. It’s worth a try – I bet you’ll find yourself reaching out to people before the podcast is over, and finding new ways to receive their love in return.
As for being, somewhere between rest and actively loving is being. Like a lion in the plains, taking a look at that which surrounds. At rest, secure with self is being. And while being is of value we’re also productive little buggers, with a desire to create, think and learn.
So while you’re a human be-ing, sometimes you also need to be a human inspired. My recent favorite: Conclave. So timely! On so many levels. How do you choose to walk in the world, and how do you want to lead? At a moment when we need leaders with moral fortitude, this one is tiger balm for my soul. Let yourself be inspired.
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In addition to sharing ideas for how to rest, love and be, I wanted to share the following links to blogs I’ve posted over the last two months. Have a click if they speak to you:
- From FOMO to JOMO: How to Embrace the Joy of Missing Out
- The Energy Audit: Where Are You Spending Your Time and Emotional Energy?
- How to Deal With Decision Fatigue and Make Choices With Confidence
- Why Busyness Is the New Loneliness
With love,
Allison
