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So suffice it to say, we believe in the power of a good nap.
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Tricia Hersey, artist, activist, theologian, and founder ofThe Nap Ministry, agrees.
We dont have to earn rest, she writes.
But we encourage you to read Herseys words and take them to heart.
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Tenet 3: Naps provide a portal to imagine, invent, and heal.
We have never learned this in our culture.
The thought of not doing, even for a short time, is seen as lazy and unproductive.
So an explanation for rest as a form of justice is layered and nuanced.
It brings us back to our human-ness.
To be more human.
To be connected to who and what we truly are is at the heart of our rest movement.
Social media makes it so seductive to quickly scroll and feel a high from the media presented.
It allows for an engagement that lacks depth, slow study, and embodiment.
A grieving person is a healed person.
Can you guess why our culture does not want a healed person in it?
You are worthy of rest.
We dont have to earn rest.
Our bodies and Spirits do not belong to capitalism, no matter how it is theorized and presented.
Our divinity secures this, and it is our right to claim this boldly.
Im not grinding ever.
Exhaustion keeps us numb, keeps us zombie-like, and keeps us on their clock.
Overworking and the trauma of burnout continues to degrade our divinity.
We would treat ourselves and each other like the tender and powerful beings we are.
And the system doesnt want that.
It would crumple under the weight of this power.
I dont belong to the systems.
They cannot have me.
I will never donate my body to a system that views it as only a tool for its production.
I need you to begin to slowly feel this and to declare that the systems cant have you.
It will take deep work but its imaginative and beautiful work that will be a lifelong process.
I am grateful we have a lifetime and our healing needs to not be rushed and urgent.
We have a lifetime.
We can go slow.
We can go deep.
We can go into the cracks.
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
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