08/07/2026
I've had so many people tell me they watch TV or they play games or scroll on their phone in order to wind down and rest. If there's one thing I've learned it's that there's a difference between the position of the body and the position of the mind.
If you've spent the day working and thinking and performing mentalprocessing, it may -feel- restful to sit and "turn your brain off" and watch something/scroll/game, but that does not mean that it's genuine rest.
Genuine rest requires stillness. Not just stillness of the body but trying to find and achieve stillness of the mind. 5 minutes of breath work does way more for rest than 2 hours of watching a movie or 10 minutes of scrolling. That's why once you start a game or doom scrolling it's difficult to stop because you're in searching mode. You're seeking something and if you're seeking you're not resting.
This isn't to say you should never scroll or play games or watch TV, but stop calling it something that it's not.