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According to the English dictionary rest is defined as relief from work or activity by sleeping, resting is an integral part of human nature, no wonder we have night and day, while we use the day to work, night is designed do rest when we will have relief from our daily endeavours, personally I have observed that any time I over stressed myself consistently I easily fall sick, that means that stress also affect our immunity not allowing our lymphocytes to actively fight against some antigens that invade our body, rest have good number of advantages
which includes :
1) Aids Recovery:  a day or two off per week is required to allow bone, muscle, tendons and ligaments the time to recover and repair themselves.  Muscle growth occurs during rest periods, not during exercise;
2) Keeps you healthy:  avoids the risk of the immune response being compromised due to over-training;
3) Helps you sleep:  adequate sleep allows the mind to repair itself and develop new connections (useful when learning new skills, adaptations);
4) Lowers stress: decreases abnormal levels of cortisol (stress hormone): This will allow alertness, productivity and general health to be maintained;
5) More energy throughout the day:   adequate rest helps you avoid energy slumps during the day, ensuring workouts are more effective and efficient;
Boosts brain function:  allows for better concentration and focus.
These are only but few advantages of stress there are many more advantages of adequate rest, no wonder the Bible at Ecclesiastes 4:6 said and I quote " better is a handful of rest than two handfuls of hard work and a chasing after the wind. This does not mean that the Bible encourages laziness as many may misinterprete it but the Bible is here encouraging adequate rest after hard work.
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 Sad to note that many who have turned themselves into workaholic criticize other who have rest as being lazy but that is not true as experience have shown that workaholics have no time to enjoy what they have laboured for and even do not have time for there loved ones which has caused them so dearly as we will see in the next subheading. 

***stress and it's detrimental effect***
Because of their preoccupation with work, being a workaholic is devastating to one’s personal life. An unhealthy obsession with work means workaholics find little time for hobbies, family and friends.
The children and spouses of workaholics are often neglected. This can negatively affect their children’s psychological development, and may result in separation or divorce from their spouses.
Also a workaholic is a person who works compulsively. The term originates from alcoholism. The person works at the cost of their sleep, and social functions such as meeting friends or family. While the term generally implies that the person enjoys their work, it can also alternately imply that they simply feel compelled to do it.

There is no generally accepted medical definition of such a condition, although some forms of stress, impulse control disorder, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder can be work-related; ergomania is defined as "excessive devotion to work especially as a symptom of mental illness".

Hustle culture is a neologism for workaholism, related to excessive devotion towards one's work to the exclusion of every other aspect of one's life, creating an unhealthy work–life balance. On many occasions workaholics end up finding themselves sleepin in an unlikely place. 

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So what is the lesson? While it is good to work hard to provide for one's self and the family it wise and reasonable to have adequate rest so that we will live to enjoy the works of our hands, which brings the  saying to mind "that when wealth is pursued at the expense of health then the enemy will eat the wealth" which simply means that such a person may not live to enjoy the work of his hands.
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