sacred rest -- a book review

Saundra Dalton-Smith's Sacred Rest:  Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity develops seven types of rest she found lacking in many patients in her internal medicine practice and how rest impacts every part of our lives:

• Physical:  The chance to use the body in restorative ways to decrease muscle tension, reduce headaches, and promote higher quality sleep.
• Mental:  The ability to quiet cerebral chatter and focus on things that matter.
• Spiritual:  The capacity to experience God in all things and recline in the knowledge of the Holy.
• Emotional:  The freedom to authentically express feelings and eliminate people-pleasing behaviors.
• Social:  The wisdom to recognize relationships which revive from ones that exhaust and how to limit exposure to toxic people.
• Sensory:  The opportunity to downgrade the endless onslaught of sensory input received from electronics, fragrances, and background noise.
• Creative:  The experience of allowing beauty to inspire awe and liberate wonder.

In a culture that sees genuine rest synonymous with laziness, Sacred Rest cuts through those false perceptions with wisdom and research findings to support its central claim:  Rest is the key to more energy, greater productivity, better creativity, increased happiness, and a thriving life.

That makes Sacred Rest essential reading for all those who feel the rush and pressure of the world.
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I received a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review here.