{"id":35489,"date":"2025-05-08T16:47:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kontemplation.dk\/?p=35489"},"modified":"2025-05-20T16:15:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T14:15:27","slug":"betydningen-af-hvileaspektet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/betydningen-af-hvileaspektet\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of the rest aspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long period of intense work, during which I have been away from what I call my home, I arrive in my familiar domestic surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>I am a privileged person who works in a way that allows for practice. And yet after a long period where the transmission aspect has been given full focus, there comes to me a natural movement towards withdrawal and the opportunity to give a little more space to the deeper aspects of resting.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that when people have discovered the importance of having a daily practice, a greater contact with their own body can arise \u2013 with the opportunity to give more space to feel themselves and their needs.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard a teacher say several times that there would not be such serious stress states if we humans were able to listen to our bodies. Understood in the sense that the body has tried to make us aware that something is wrong several times before the body ends up in total collapse caused by stress.<\/p>\n<p>When I have returned home and had a good night&#039;s sleep and a calm morning with room for practice both sitting and walking, I sit down and eat lunch.<\/p>\n<p>My body feels heavy.<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;m smiling.<\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s been a long time since I&#039;ve had such a good night&#039;s sleep and such a calm morning \u2013 and the first thing my body tells me is that it wants to rest.<\/p>\n<p>I roll out the hammock, find my favorite blanket, wrap myself in it, and settle into the hammock, which we have given pride of place in the middle of the living room.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#039;t lie down for long before I feel my eyelids become very heavy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kontemplation.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2138-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-35643\" src=\"https:\/\/kontemplation.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2138-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Britta_haengekoeje\" width=\"670\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2138-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2138-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2138-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2138-2048x1151.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My body feels heavy.<\/p>\n<p>Before I look around, three hours have passed.<\/p>\n<p>With pleasure and a smile on my face, I hop out of bed, sit on the terrace with a glass of water, and decide to make room to listen deeply to my body&#039;s signals.<\/p>\n<p>The following days I roll out the hammock daily and allow myself to lie down for as long as my body asks for it.<\/p>\n<p>The intervals are getting shorter and shorter \u2013 and at the same time I experience a truly beneficial effect of allowing myself to rest.<\/p>\n<p>I am discovering \u2013 or perhaps rediscovering \u2013 the importance of the rest aspect as part of my practice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Photo: Kontemplation and Selma Karlsh\u00f8j<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efter en l\u00e6ngere intens arbejdsperiode, hvor jeg har v\u00e6ret v\u00e6k fra det, jeg kalder mit hjem, ankommer jeg til mine velkendte hjemlige rammer. Jeg er et privilegeret menneske, der arbejder&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":35515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":[],"meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"person":[350],"class_list":["post-35489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kultur","person-britta-karlshoej"],"subtitle":"","embedded_audio":"","hasaudio":"0","hide_featured_image_on_post":"0","nobio":"0","infobox":"","quote":"","year_published":"2025","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35489"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35678,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35489\/revisions\/35678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35489"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=35489"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=35489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}