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Trouble letting yourself rest? Let this Jewish farming practice inspire you 

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Agricultural field with young sprouts of grain culture and plowed unseeded field
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Margaret Rose Realy, Obl. O.S.B. - published on 01/26/23
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"Shmita" is a Jewish sabbatical year that allows the soil to rest and recover its potential, to rejuvenate.

In Jewish tradition there is a sabbatical year, Shmita, meaning a renunciation, or "to release." This letting go includes renouncing the right to work the fields and groves. We read from the Old Testament, “for six years you may sow your field, and […] prune your vineyard, gathering in their produce. But during the seventh year the land shall have a Sabbath of complete rest […] when you may neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard. The after growth of your harvest you shall not reap …” (Leviticus 25:3-6)

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