Funny thing

Too few of us get nearly enough rest when we are ill. There are things to do and illness and rest just get in the way. The problem is that when we ignore our body’s demand for a little rest, we tend to find ourselves in the position that our body demands it. We stop being able to function and we stop being able to mentally cooperate with our needs and our desires. It is curious that we all share an innate inability to slow down and rest when we are ill. Perhaps it is nothing more than a carry over from our childhood when we were pushed to go to school despite our slight fevers and our general malaise. Perhaps we watched our parents go out the door every day despite their own illnesses and we realized that in their eyes rest was for the weak.

The funny thing is, if we decide to actually take a little time out for rest our bodies are more able to heal and we become healthy again much faster. One or two days off in the world creates a healing space that allows us to get back to our life rather than weeks of struggling against the need for rest.

Rest allows the body to focus on the illness and flush it out. It isn’t that we need to stop moving because we are weak or lazy, but because our body can only disperse the energy it needs into so many directions. Rest allows our body to focus on the healing aspects of its energy rather than the motion aspects of its energy.

Resting

People work hard to provide decent level of living so they need rest. Tiredness after a working day protects you from working too hard. You just need rest. Sometimes people feel tired during the day. Stresses and strong emotions take too much energy and a person feels tired. Rest can help a person to get body and mind back to normal. There are some kinds of activity that can help people to relax. Listening to music helps to overcome the day stresses. Writing a diary helps to analyze events of the day and find a way out of a difficult situation. Creative work helps to change the mood and stop stress. Sometimes cleaning up the room or drawing helps to recover the body completely.
Some people prefer to come home and fall asleep just for an hour or so. Sleeping slows down the activity of all systems of the body and energy is stored. In an hour a person is ready for different activities during the evening.
Rest is highly important for all your body and mind. Sometimes even dozing on the sofa with a favourite book does you a lot of good. The main problem is that people must learn to relax in different ways. Just try to dance, and soon you will feel much better. Try to think about positive things. You will feel much better and very soon your brain and body will be completely recovered. Do your best to have a good rest.

Inactive rest

There are many types of rest. There is no common view on the question how a person should spend his/her free time. Both scientists and ordinary people still argue about the way people should spend their rest. Some of them say that the most important thing is to spend free time actively. They claim that rest should imply the change of activities. For example, if you work physically, you are recommended to read a book or watch TV, if your job consists in brainwork, then you'd better do exercises on coming home. The critics of these ideas say that a person being exhausted after hard working day shouldn't be involved in another activity. They say that a tired person needs relaxation and nothing more. I think that both points of view are right. Everything depends on a person and situation. For example, if you come home and you are not tired, you can do something to switch over to pastime. However, people rarely come home full of power. In the majority of cases they come home exhausted and unable to do something. In these cases inactive rest is needed. If you are really very tired, you'd better come home and do nothing. No reading, no watching TV, just lying on your sofa and looking at the ceiling. This type of rest is also very important, it can be practiced in case a person is exhausted both physically and mentally. That is why never condemn people for primitive rest. Try to understand them. They don't have power for any kinds of activities. They need inactive rest to restore their powers. Otherwise, they can be led to serious health disturbances and nervous breakdowns.