Rested & Ready

Rested, 

we are ready for the world

but not held hostage by it.

These words from poet David Whyte’s book Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words are a good reminder as we find ourselves at the end of another week.

In our hurried and harried, productivity-obsessed, 24/7 world, we can forget that rest is the foundation upon which we operate.

We see it as the norm to commence our days unrested and unready. #NotBeforeCoffee anyone?!

We see it as the norm to be ‘working for the weekend’.

We see it as the norm to steal time from sleep so that we can do all that we need, and want, to in a day.

What if we were to place ‘a deep experience of rest’, as David Whyte’s essay goes on to reference it, at the centre of how we live? What if rest was not something reserved only for the weekends, instead a priority for every single day?

What if we ended a working week feeling rested and ready for the world?

It sounds like a change worth making, don’t you agree?!