5 Tips on How To Rest When You Don’t Know How

Last week, we talked about just how important it is to rest and how we need to start a rest revolution to get rid of burnout culture forever. 

So, in today’s episode of Creating The Path, I’m talking about how to rest when you don't know how. Because I hear people talk about this and I experienced this myself. When I quit my 9-5 job, I was used to being in working mode 24 hours a day. I couldn't turn off my brain. My body was always set up to just go, go, go! 

And when you're in that place, you actually have to learn how to rest or at least reteach yourself how to rest and work your way into it slowly. 

So, let me share with you 5 tips on how you can rest if you are feeling like you have a hard time resting or just don't even know what to do. Let's get into it.

Topics discussed in this episode: 

• [01:58] Tip #1: Calm your nervous system with these simple techniques
• [11:45] Tip #2: Moving your body can actually help you to rest
• [13:03] Tip #3: Start small when it comes to rest (if you’re not used to it)
• [14:10] Tip #4: Reframing rest
• [16:33] Tip #5: Don’t beat yourself up
• [18:22] Recap of the episode

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Noteworthy Quotes:

“The simplest thing you can do when you want to calm yourself down, is to take some deep breaths, but make sure that your exhales are longer.”

“The best way to complete the stress cycle is to move your body, to move it out of yourself.”

“Resting is not being lazy. It's intentionally managing our energy and knowing that in order to perform our best at work, or at anything that we do, we have to rest.”

“This is a process and we're all learning and we're all getting better at everything that we're doing all the time. So really, just be easy on yourself.”

Summary of the Podcast: 

Creating the Path is a podcast that challenges multi-passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their goals by working less and eliminating overwhelm, so they can create their own unique pathway to a life they love. My mission is to transform hustle culture and assist others to shift away from living life on auto-pilot to living intentionally and following your own path to a life you love instead.

Host Bio:

Heather Grace Hanson is a certified positive psychology-based coach and creator of the Intentional Energy Framework, a system that empowers you to create a life and business you love