What Is True Rest And How To Find It

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About True Rest

In the Quintessence System, True Rest is one of the "four pillars" that help support you in achieving your Life Project. Each Pillar represents an essential element in your life—Rest, Play, Study, and Work. When balanced, your Pillars energize and orient you for fulfillment of your Life Project.

What Is True Rest?

True Rest is a temporary suspension of “normal” activity in which the typical processes of the mind, the body, and emotions, are allowed to revert to their actual, natural state.

Barriers To True Rest

All of you—and we say this without exception—spend the majority of your time in a state of constant contraction, in a state of constant tension.

Without this conflict, both internal and external, there would be little growth. It is a function of the physical plane to provide you with a constant sense of imbalance so that you have something to move against.

A state of rest, therefore, is a momentary setting aside of this perpetual process in order to touch again your actual natural state.

Touch Points To Experience True Rest

By identifying your True Rest, we identify the touch points that you can use in a particular lifetime so as to remember the pathway to a momentary state of rest.

These touch points will be different in every lifetime, for they depend largely upon body memory from earlier times or even from previous lifetimes. You hold within your physical body all the memories of everything that has ever occurred to you. This reaches through time into other lifetimes, to some extent at least, and these elements of True Rest are doorways to allow you to more easily access a state of rest.

Mind-Body Control Is Not True Rest

Some people develop sufficient mind-body “control” that allows them to reach this state of rest, but this in itself is a state of control and not the complete openness that is associated with real rest.

Why Achieving True Rest Can Be Difficult

Although rest is your actual natural state, keep in mind that the degree to which you engage with the elements consistent with the physical plane affects your ability to easily achieve momentary True Rest.

If you have piled upon your plate a great many “issues” then they will be your energetic first priority in much of your day to day activities. It is as if you must sift through hundreds of layers of energetic activity in order to reach what is, at core of you, your own inner self—which is where you find this state of rest.

Those of you who tend to resist this process will not only have a lot of issues and challenges, but also will typically have more difficulty in the sifting process, leaving you less likely to easily achieve momentary True Rest.

What Helps You Achieve True Rest

It is within the power of each of you to reach the state of rest as we have described. That is not to say that you will take advantage of your ability to do so.

Let us expand a bit more on the nature of rest and what it does for you.

You Have Keys To The Doors Of True Rest

Each of you incarnates with a set of "keys" to the doors that allow you to reach this state. These keys will differ from lifetime to lifetime, although some may follow you from life to life if they are particularly useful.

All of you have the ability to reach this state almost at any time and it is only what you pile up as a barricade between yourself and these doorways that prevents you from getting there whenever you wish.

Many of you intentionally deny this experience because it would be terrifying to truly allow yourself to experience Who You Are without all the other sensations that arise from everything you have built around you as a protective device.

It is ironic, is it not, that those who most need a sense of rest are usually the ones who erect the most walls between yourselves and getting it?

True Rest Suspends The Sense Of Time Passing

When one is in that state of rest, the sense of time is momentarily suspended as you move into a state of being without any other distractions, thoughts, feelings, or sensations.

It can be terrifying to give up all the thoughts, feelings, and sensations that you feel define you, which is why many of you resist moving into an actual state of rest even momentarily. For doing so would require acknowledging who you really rather than who you have always thought you were.

Relationship Between Meditation And True Rest

There are many forms of meditation, each with their own desired result. Meditation itself is an ambiguous term and many meanings have been ascribed to it that have changed the original intention.

For some people, it is possible to completely go inside the Self so as to achieve a feeling of utter expansion.

The original intent of the term “meditation” and what we describe as True Rest are one and the same. True Rest is a state of suspension—a state of acknowledging nothing more than being.

How To Achieve True Rest

It is up to the individual to create a set of keys to the doorways that bring them to True Rest. Meditation is not the pathway for everyone.

For some people, it is watching clouds pass. For others it is being with animals or cleaning one’s home. All of these activities, when taken at their heart, are meditational in nature.

A person may find True Rest in almost any activity, depending on what has been chosen for that lifetime. Each of you will have more than one way to achieve way to achieve True Rest, more than one type of doorway, so as to allow you to achieve it under many different types of circumstances.

Find Your Keys To True Rest

Each key, while different, has some qualities in common.

...allows you the feeling of being outside yourself

...is practicable any time, almost anywhere

...arouses a sense of remembering something from long ago that you have always known

Think about simple activities you enjoyed as a child—likely those are activities that you instinctively knew provided you True Rest.

I’ve spent the past ten days in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, far from my present home in the northeast but closer, much closer, to my true spiritual home, and during this time one of my specific goals was to immerse myself into a deeper connection with Nature. Though my home is in a semi-rural area, affording me an opportunity to frequently bike through rolling hills amid cornfields and farmhouses, I really don’t feel all that connected with the nature element of it usually. Perhaps it’s because I don’t connect energetically with the space, or resist a deeper connection; perhaps it’s the human element in a long-inhabited space that has overwritten the elements of nature, but in any case I felt a huge difference in my little cabin in the forest, a short walk from the beach, easily moving into a space of love and appreciation for Nature and my place within it. I spent several hours roaming the trails through the forest, meandering along the beach, and standing in the rain under the trees at night.

And then I upped the ante considerably and spent some time in a different forest last night.

I entered the forest under a nearly-full moon, bright on a cloudless night, and instantly I felt a different sort of welcoming, an embrace, an invitation. Through connecting with the trees who are themselves all connected and always aware of that connection to one another, to the earth, and to All That Is, I could reach back into time and feel roots tapping into the dawning of human consciousness on the planet with such primordial innocence that it took my breath away.

At the same time I was aware of every possibility that continues to stretch before us in time: possibilities for each one of us and all the myriad possibilities available at any given moment, every choice, every road taken and not taken, and I felt vast, knowing that I was a part of everything that ever has been and everything still yet to come. I was as tall as the trees and as bright as the moon, and I turned my face toward her, accepting the spotlight, fully acknowledging my completeness and perfection.

To say this was a joyous and magical experience doesn’t quite do it justice.

But it served as a wonderful reminder, one that I will take back to my home with me and one that I offer you now, that our connection with Nature is an essential of simply being human. It’s part of us, and to deny it is to deny part of Self.

Afterwards, I channeled this:

There is of course value in connecting with animals, trees, and other elements of what you consider to be “nature”. These elements, are of course, part of your home, part of your world, and are as such connected to you, to humans, in a very intimate way. You share space. You share air. You share resources. Not only that, but you share in the creation of your world, the global creation of the reality you know as life on the physical plane. And because of that, there is an undying connection between you as a human and ALL of the so-called “natural” elements of Nature.

Some of you feel this connection more deeply, more emotionally, than others. Some feel a return, when confronted with Nature, especially in her most raw state, to that innocent and childlike state of simply Being, existing, that lies dormant within all of you. And as such, you feel it deeply when one of nature’s children, one element of the intricate tapestry that is constantly being woven and re-created, moves through natural transition into another state. There is, for you, a deep sense of loss, as there is the recognition not only of the timelessness of transformation and the cycles of life on the planet, but also of the transference of human-type connection to an element of nature. You can mostly only experience connection with nature by transferring those feelings to a more human perspective, and when loss of an element of nature, such as a pet or tree, occurs, there is transference to the human state of grief.

We have mentioned the energetic connections between you and your pets and we wish to elaborate. Again, not only is there a very real symbolic connection here (discovery of Self, of Love, of perspective: these things were gained through and with your interaction), but also there HAVE in most cases indeed been some past-life associations. Though most animals live lives in mainly hive-type soul arrangements, there is a constancy of energy that can flow generation after generation through one individual animal to another, and even of course crossing boundaries of species. There has been for many of you, then, a common thread through many lifetimes of connection with various elements of nature, and it is this thread, now running through you and the pets you love, that has touched this present lifetime.

The lessons from connection to Nature are many and varied and often depend on the individual, but regardless of perspective there is ALWAYS growth opportunity through human connection with Nature. After all, it is your home. It is your LIFE. To deny Nature is denying an aspect of Self, and to fully EMBRACE Nature, to ACCEPT it in all its splendor, ugliness, and beauty, is a HUGE step in actually accepting your Self.