The art of rest
WHAT DO YOU DO when you are not doing anything? That’s a trickier question than you might think. Especially now that we have instant access to almost every last item of the world’s rich array of information and entertainment in our hands or pockets, with virtually no off-switch. Doing nothing is nearly impossible but at the same time absolutely essential to good health, both mental and physical.
What we need is rest; a break from activity. But the and author of a range of psychology books, has written . The book sprang from the Rest Test, initiated by the University of Durham and financed by the Wellcome Foundation, in which 18,000 people living in 135 different countries chose to take part. More than half of them felt that they were not getting enough respite in their lives.
