This Doctor Says Humans Actually Need 7 Kinds of Rest (and You're Probably Not Getting All of Them) | We should all get 'heartbreak leave' – but oh, the irony that it's Giorgia Meloni leading the charge | Elle Hunt | 3 Key Ways To Begin Overcoming Deep Perfectionism And Self-Doubt | Grammar Changes How We See, an Australian Language Shows

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This Doctor Says Humans Actually Need 7 Kinds of Rest (and You're Probably Not Getting All of Them) - Inc.com

We're only a week into 2021 and we've already had a coup attempt, a rampaging new strain of Covid, a halting vaccine rollout, and even attack squirrels (murder hornets and meth alligators are so 2020). It does not appear we're in for a restful year. But even if the world makes it hard to relax, at least one doctor insists we all need to find a way to reset and recharge anyway.

And that's more complicated than just switching off your brain and switching on Netflix every once in a while.

In a new TED Ideas post, Saundra Dalton-Smith insists "we go through life thinking we've rested because we have gotten enough sleep -- but in reality we are missing out on the other types of rest we desperately need" and outlines the seven types of rest that are essential for human flourishing.

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We should all get 'heartbreak leave' – but oh, the irony that it's Giorgia Meloni leading the charge | Elle Hunt - the Guardian

Italy's prime minister wasn't afraid to take a day off when her relationship ended, and neither was I. It should be the norm

One Monday morning, many years ago, I was riding the bus to work. As it came to a stop at the corner where I always got off, I found I remained seated. I stayed on the bus all the way to the end of the line where I finally alighted and caught the next bus straight home.

The day before, I had been dumped by my boyfriend of a year. And the day before that, I had introduced him to a group of my colleagues. The thought of showing up at the office and forcing a smile through their debrief - or, worse, dissolving into tears - felt impossible.

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3 Key Ways To Begin Overcoming Deep Perfectionism And Self-Doubt - Forbes

Effectively addressing your perfectionism and self-doubt can lead to positive transformation

Perfectionism is a trait that many millions of people around the world demonstrate and experience. It can be productive at times, but also, on the flip side, it can be very damaging to our health, physical and mental wellbeing, self-esteem, quality of life, happiness and more. Recent studies have shown that perfectionism is significantly on the rise amongst younger people compared to previous generations, with the “self-oriented” form of perfectionism rising 10% from previous years. Recent estimates have shown that almost 30% of undergraduate students experience symptoms of depression, and perfectionism has been widely associated with these symptoms.

There are many factors that exacerbate perfectionism, including societal pressure, family expectations, critical or abusive parenting and manipulation, feelings of lack of control, and more. As a former marriage and family therapist and now, in career and leadership coaching with professional women globally, I’ve seen firsthand an even higher proliferation than ever of what I refer to “perfectionistic overfunctioning” – doing more than is heathy, appropriate and necessary and trying relentlessly to get an A+ in all of it. I’ve observed that there are 7 key signs of perfectionistic overfunctioning that help us finally recognize this trait in ourselves and shift away from it, as it ironically can take us very far away from the inner and outer “success” and life fulfillment we strive for.

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Grammar Changes How We See, an Australian Language Shows - Scientific American

In the early 20th century linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf thrilled his contemporaries by noting that the Hopi language, spoken by Native American people in what is now Arizona, had no words or grammatical elements to represent time. Whorf argued that this meant Hopi speakers had no concept of time and experienced what an English speaker might call “the passage of time” in a completely different way. This bold idea challenged the prevailing notion that there was a correct way to see the world—a way that lined up with the concepts already embedded in the languages of Western scholarship.

As it turns out, Hopi has quite a complex system for describing time, and those who speak it are perfectly capable of thinking about time in all kinds of ways, as indeed are all humans. In light of this realization, modern linguists assumed that even if the fundamental structures of language may differ—and even if languages specify things such as gender, number, direction and relative time in diverse ways—everyone must perceive the world in the same basic way.

Work on Australian Aboriginal languages has complicated that view, most recently in a groundbreaking study of Murrinhpatha. Spoken by most residents of Wadeye, a town of 2,500 people on Australia's northwestern coast, the language has many fascinating characteristics. Action, participants, ownership and intention may be expressed with a single word. This quality, which linguists describe as “polysynthetic,” means that many affixes may attach to a verb—and with each additional affix another layer of story accrues. The meaning conveyed by such a word contains actors and acting entwined into a complex whole. For example, the single word mengankumayerlurlngimekardi means “he was going through our bags stealing from us.

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