A 18,000 participate survey on rest. Rest and restful seem elusive to me to some extent. The definition is: having a quiet and soothing quality. Repose is another word used in the definition. A position of contentment and security. It was a world-wide study that has great interest now that we are isolating and have lots of time alone.
What is rest? Claudia Hammond's book The Art of Rest: How to Find Respite in the Modern Age is on this topic and covers the research. She is an authority on rest, having worked on the research study - it had responses from 18,000 people in 135 different countries. Her website is HERE. I point to it because I hadn't found the research website - it seems to have disappeared, being part of a grant from the Wellcome Collection.
The study found that two-thirds of people said they wanted more rest - regardless of income. And then the top activities that were found to be restful in the study? I consider them predictable: Number 1: reading, 2: being in a natural environment, 3: being along, 4: listening to music, 5: doing nothing in particular. The top ten items turn out to be mostly alone activities. I've included the chart.
Claudia Hammond is worth looking into. She investigates such interesting areas. What about The Touch Test - the topic of interpersonal touch in which 40,000 people participated in 2020, the the BBC Loneliness Experiment in which 55,000 people participated in 2018, and the earliest is the Rest Test, conducted in 2016.
So many things to investigate in our times.
Here's the chart of the top ten restful interests.
Here's our Honsberger and 15th Street tree overlooking the orchard - I took this on Tuesday so there are still orchards in bloom. Such a Niagara spring sky - those brooding clouds delivering a little rain to the scene, while off in the distance blue shines through.
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