Recover your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity
Learn about and experience Sacred Rest for your Soul and your Body
FREE event for ladies of all ages!
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Did you know that there are 7 types of Sacred Rest?
What kind of rest do you need?
Join us at our Women’s Ministry “Refresh Her” event September 21 and experience all 7 kinds of rest—leave with restored spiritual and physical energy.
1. Physical Rest – there are both active and passive forms of physical rest. Sleeping and napping are the two most common types of passive rest. Active physical rest includes dynamic stretching, breathing exercises, soaking baths, and prayer walks. These forms of active physical rest release the tension in your muscles and restore calm to your body.
2. Mental Rest – As important as it is to rest your body, it’s equally important to quiet your mind from the ongoing influx of information it receives. Your brain is under the influence of constant background noise. Your mind chatter may seem like it never stops. These thoughts that flow through your mind can be desirable and motivating or they can be untamed and chaotic. We must learn to create a mental sanctuary and cultivate Sacred Rest for our minds.
3. Emotional – You experience emotional rest when you no longer feel the need to perform or meet external expectations. It is the cessation of emotional striving. We need to assess where we are expending our emotional energy and seek practices and people who support cessation of personal striving.
4. Spiritual Rest – As we grow in our relationship with God and our trust in Him, our experience of spiritual rest deepens. There is a special type of sacred, spiritual rest that happens as we learn how to lean on God’s everlasting arms. We can enhance this leaning with prayer, meditation on God’s Word, personal worship time, journaling and more. These practices form a spiritual rest-time for us.
5. Social Rest – When we find comfort in our relationships and social interactions we are experiencing social rest. Social rest reconnects us to uplifting, rewarding relationships. It is finding solace in one another. There is great value in setting aside times of social rest with those you love and trust. Make time for relationships that revive you.
6. Sensory Rest – Every day your nervous system is under constant stimulation. Periodic times of selective sensory deprivation deliberately remove external distractions and stimuli from your senses in order to reenergize them. When we calm the sensory overload in our life we create sensory rest the restores and revives us. “Unplug” in order to rest and recharge.
7. Creative Rest- When you soak in beauty and light it guides your body to rest. Creative rest let’s you focus on your creative need for wonder. Creative rest is not solely for creative people—it is for all of us. It is allowing white space in your life which gives your personal style of creativity to show up.
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