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🌙 Rest Is Doing: The Power of Intentional Pause #shorts

23 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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A brief reflective exchange arguing that rest is an intentional, active practice ('rest is doing') rather than passive disengagement like presenteeism, doom-scrolling, or binge-watching. The speakers frame rest as a deliberate pause and an act of renewal that enables re-entry to activity.

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And I think given our complete and absolute bewilderment with this uncertainty and perpetual change that we face around us every day, I think as humans, we're finding it harder and harder to give ourselves permission to step back. So we don't actually purposefully step back. We just, you know, that would be what everyone's called presenteeism or lying flat or all of those isms that they cho and and sort of broader world love to bring up. But it's not. It's this disengagement with exhaustion. It's not deliberate disengagement with pause to re enter. So you can still keep doing, I believe rest is doing. It's not doom scrolling or binge watching Netflix. It's an active state.
It's an act of renewal. It's an.
Act of renewal.