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In today's episode, I want to talk about using rest to loosen your anxiety to make you feel a little bit less

tight and stressed and maybe we could do that by using some rest. The interesting thing is that rest is not

used very much anymore. I mean everybody goes to bed at night and get some sleep but we used to rest. I was reminded of this with summer coming or summer being here. Here we are now at the 4th of July weekend when this is being recorded and I'm thinking

I remember the old dog days of summer.

Summer was so long when I was a kid.

And there was long hard playing time and there was rest time.

There was actually back in my day comic books were big and we would let

we would get cozy on the porch and read comic books and we would play hard and we would rest hard and I'm thinking that we don't do that quite so much anymore

and that kind of lack of falling back into our parasympathetic nervous system is what is keeping

us overstressed and building up a lot of this tension that so many who are suffering with anxiety are stuck in.

And so I ran across an article just a couple of days ago, maybe it was actually last week,

from Leo Babuta, and it was entitled The Lost Art of True Rest.

And I wanted to share some pieces of it with you because it really like I said it reminded me of the

old days and how we used to rest and that now we actually have to make a point of it. We have to talk about it. We don't, it doesn't quite

come as naturally anymore. We're always kind of on the go. So some of the things that stuck out to me in this article and I'll have a

link to this in the show notes if you want his entire post. But one of the things I highlighted is that he said, we rarely rest anymore.

And that really resonated with me.

You know, we know all the reasons, social media, all our devices and so forth and so on, but Leo says in his article, think about it.

When you get a break, what do you normally do?

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