When your mind really needs a rest, it can actually happen quickly, if you rest into this present moment. Watching this 30 sec video, rest in the present moment orienting to your environment and your outer world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB6yd0WV684
You can use this youtube image to meditate with or you can meditate either after reading the poem by Wendell Berry below or after reading the lovely quote by the Irish poet, John O’Donohue.
The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry, The Peace of Wild Things & Other Poems
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
John O’Donohue (quote)
“There is a place in you where you have never been wounded, where there is still a sureness in you, where there is a seamlessness in you and where there is a confidence and tranquility in you. I think the intention of prayer, (meditation) spirituality and love is now and again to visit that inner sanctuary.”