Rest for Success

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

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🗓️ 30 January 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Have you noticed that even the busiest, most active people in your life are slowing down? Everyone seems to have an increased need for rest, downtime, and relaxation during these decidedly tumultuous times. Martha points out that this isn’t just natural, it’s radical and revolutionary! In fact, taking time to rest is one of the most seditious things we can do to bring down the patriarchy and resist systemic oppression. (Originally aired: Sept. 7, 2020.)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Gathering Room podcast, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast. I'm Martha Beck.
0:09.6	Last week, as we were talking through the questions and comments, someone asked about rest.
0:16.2	In fact, several people asked about the topic of rest. So I thought, let's do it. Let's do a whole gathering
0:24.3	room on the topic of rest because it is a very powerful topic. It's interesting. All the spiritual
0:31.8	traditions of the world have a really, really sweet spot for resting. I love, I'm not any particular religion, but I love a lot
0:42.3	of great religious documents. And I love the New Testament where Jesus says, come unto me all ye
0:50.3	who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. I remember reading that as a child when
0:57.1	we were forced to read the Bible, even though we did not understand it. But I'm thinking,
1:05.7	how can somebody give you rest? That's actually not someone can actually force you to do. They could immobilize you,
1:15.0	but being immobilized and panicky was pretty much how I spent all my days and they didn't feel
1:20.5	very restful. So there was something really, really seductive for me in that phrase, I will give you rest. When you find a connection
1:31.4	to the divine, it gives you rest. And I want to come back to that in a minute. First, I want to
1:37.5	talk about how some of the people who sent in questions last week said they had a really difficult time getting themselves to rest.
1:48.3	And this is something that's very particular to our cultures, certainly maybe a lot of cultures, but the whole, I'm about to do my sociology thing.
1:59.2	One of the most famous books in sociology is Max Weber's, oh no,
2:07.5	the spirit of capitalism. What is it? Somebody writing to me. It was in my head and then it went away.
2:12.2	Something in the spirit of capitalism. Sociology and the spirit of, what did Max Weber write?
2:17.4	My brain is getting old.
2:18.9	Anyway, I didn't even look this up or listed because I know it so well and I'll tell you in a
2:22.3	minute. But what he was writing about was the American work ethic. And this was in the 1800s.
2:29.9	So it wasn't like America was at the place it reached after World War II in terms of prominence on the world stage.
2:35.8	It was still considered an odd sort of offshoot of Europe.
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