The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson.

And is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Why you still probably need more rest and 23 ways to get it.

We're entering the lazy days of summer here, but I wonder how many people feel an increase in stress and obligations.

Every year, I feel like the sanctimonious leisure time of summer erodes at a more rapid pace.

Whatever happened to summer as a time for R&R, especially for kids?

Of all our personal limited resources, I often wonder why rest gets such a short shrift.

Although our hunter-gatherer ancestors worked only about 12 to 20 hours a week, leaving virtually

the whole day to rest, socialize, and play,

such is not the case for most of us today.

We're supposed to be busy, even on vacation.

To sit in quiet or risk boredom isn't the way of the world these days.

So I'm going to venture that too many of us have forgotten what being rested actually feels like. In light of that,

I thought I'd offer up a few suggestions to remedy the situation. First, I see three primary

factors at work that contribute to the chronic lack of rest we see today. For some folks,

there's the puritanical, no for the Wicked mentality that encourages compulsive

business. I've known a lot of people in this category throughout my life. None of them were happy

or rested. On the other hand, there's the rise in pseudo-restful activities. Let's get honest here.

What have you been substituting for real rest? I'm talking about those

largely mindless activities that suck up every spare minute of your time. For instance, how much

time do you spend on your phone? Your laptop? Watching TV? Let's face it, screens are our easiest

diversion. Living well and restfully isn't about outlawing screen time,

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