{"id":1,"date":"2016-10-07T05:12:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T05:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.healthylivingchick.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2017-02-19T20:41:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T20:41:22","slug":"rest-and-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthylivingchick.com\/rest-and-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest &#038; Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rest &amp; Sleep<\/p>\n<p>How do you rest?<\/p>\n<p>My idea of relaxation and rest is to take a warm bath with Epsom Salt and essential oils, read a book, go for a walk. What relaxes you?<\/p>\n<p>We all need to rejuvenate ourselves. If you are a mom like me, we need to take time to recharge our batteries. This is KEY to our emotional health.<\/p>\n<p>1\/3 of our life is spent sleeping. How much sleep are you getting? We typically need 8 hours of sleep a night. Sleep is our natural state of rest.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if we sleep too much or too little we tend to be irritable. Getting the right <span class=\"hlc-angela\">amount<\/span> of sleep is another KEY to good health.<\/p>\n<p>When we are sick our body is telling us that we need time to rest so that it can \u00a0repair itself.<\/p>\n<p>Our bodies were meant to heal themselves! Are we giving our bodies what we need to do this with, nutrients, physical exercise, proper rest?<\/p>\n<p>Listed below are some benefits of sleep:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>regulates body growth<\/li>\n<li>stimulates tissue growth<\/li>\n<li>speeds healing<\/li>\n<li>lowers cholesterol<\/li>\n<li>body restores itself<\/li>\n<li>Infants and small children need more sleep because they are growing rapidly<\/li>\n<li>Too much sleep can make one irritable as too little sleep can do the same thing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How much do YOU need?<\/p>\n<p>Matthew 11:28-30 &#8220;Come unto me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hlc-purple hlc-green hlc-angela\">Healthy Living Chick<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><em>Boe, Susan. Total Health: Choices for a Winning Lifestyle. Colorado Springs: Purposeful Design, 2005. Print.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rest &amp; Sleep How do you rest? My idea of relaxation and rest is to take a warm bath with Epsom Salt and essential oils, read a book, go for a walk. What relaxes you? We all need to rejuvenate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthylivingchick.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthylivingchick.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthylivingchick.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthylivingchick.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthylivingchick.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthylivingchick.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthylivingchick.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthylivingchick.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthylivingchick.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthylivingchick.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}