The phrase "a state of resting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a condition or situation where someone or something is not active or is in a period of rest.
Example: "After a long day at work, I often find myself in a state of resting on the couch, enjoying some quiet time."
Alternatives: "a condition of rest" or "a phase of relaxation".
So they come to rest in a state of mutual inhibition, in which neither "shines" as brightly as it would if unimpeded by the other.[20] What Herbart calls the "inhibition-sum", then, is the total of the opposed inhibitory forces, i.e., the total inhibiting exerted by the opposed representations upon each other, in a state of resting equilibrium.
In a state of rest, these particles have mass and are the constituents of atoms and atomic nuclei.
The surface of their work is often jumpy, even hyperactive, but in "Fargo" they associated goodness with, of all things, a state of rest.
For example, contact between the hairs on the feet and the ground inhibits movement and may lead to a state of rest in some insects.
Weight and gravitational pull have the same effect on music, I think, as they do on any physical object accelerating from a state of rest.
The player being struck, on average, goes from a state of rest to an impact velocity of 16.1 m.p.h.. "It is almost right to think of it as a car crash," Viano said.
Traditionally, it was also described as final causality, in contrast with explanation solely in terms of efficient causes (the origin of a change or a state of rest in something).
Two light boxes here depict Mr. Duchamp's heartbeat: one is literal, showing it at a state of rest; the other, an artistic representation, shows it at an even slower rate.
"In the famous first law of dynamics, Newton had said that a body persisted in a state of rest or constant motion except as it was affected by other bodies; he was assuming that the normal condition of all things was inertia.
Whenever my mind is approaching a state of rest, back up it pops in all its maddening impenetrability – a huge and foreboding forest of sentences at which one feels compelled to keep hacking away, in the hope of freeing the princess of humour slumbering peacefully therein.
Once the deficit is repaired, the desire is fulfilled, and the organism returns to a state of rest.
