Have you ever stayed up all night learning for an exam only to find that once you’re taking the test you don’t remember much?
At times we do get a moment to take a break, but the mind won’t stop spinning. Or, we snuggle into bed ready to leave the present worries behind, but our internal mechanism just won’t stop whirling. That’s because not only does our brain need sleep it also needs its own kind of rest time what we call Mental Rest!
Mental rest means learning how to take a break from the constant chatter in our brain and
embracing cerebral stillness and quiet. It is essential to learning and processing. Without it, we have difficulty remembering new information and seeing how it relates to other information.
Here are some quick ways you get mental rest
- Eliminates tasks you don’t need
- Do the difficult tasks first
- Take a silent retreat
- Spend time in nature
- Listen to calming music
- Turn off devices for a while
- Engage in a grounding activity