I really resonate with this, and I feel like there is a big difference between rest and restoration for me. I was injured recently, and was prescribed rest as a cure, but as you say in your post, when I rested for too long, I felt a sense of stagnation and it felt harder to get going again the longer I spent in the rest period. I started my recovery when I started moving again. As a result, I tend to favour restoration following a short rest period. Psychologically, this feels very important to me. Even if my restoration work is not directly related to my sport or practice, just doing something that can feed into it, or doing research and trying an activity that will help me down the track, building different mental or physical muscles and then feeding that back into my main practice feels useful. Thanks for breaking this down logically and asking the questions. It got me thinking! Mina
Really glad this resonated. Injury is so tough. It can feel so restrictive but impressed how you leveraged the change in circumstances to put focus on other areas of growth. Thanks for sharing your reflections!
I really resonate with this, and I feel like there is a big difference between rest and restoration for me. I was injured recently, and was prescribed rest as a cure, but as you say in your post, when I rested for too long, I felt a sense of stagnation and it felt harder to get going again the longer I spent in the rest period. I started my recovery when I started moving again. As a result, I tend to favour restoration following a short rest period. Psychologically, this feels very important to me. Even if my restoration work is not directly related to my sport or practice, just doing something that can feed into it, or doing research and trying an activity that will help me down the track, building different mental or physical muscles and then feeding that back into my main practice feels useful. Thanks for breaking this down logically and asking the questions. It got me thinking! Mina
Really glad this resonated. Injury is so tough. It can feel so restrictive but impressed how you leveraged the change in circumstances to put focus on other areas of growth. Thanks for sharing your reflections!