Do Nothing

Literally. Nothing.

I've been practicing doing nothing for a while now. I've been trying to stay consistent and do it every day, even if it's only for 5-10 minutes. Ideally, though, I'd like to do it for about an hour or longer. I know -- who has time to do nothing for an hour?

And when I say "do nothing," I really mean it. You don't meditate. You don't focus on your breathing. You don't lie down and rest. No walking, no talking to other people or to yourself. You just sit and do nothing.

You can keep your eyes closed (which is easier) or open. If your eyes are open, you might feel tempted to observe your surroundings. But observation is doing something. Doing nothing means simply sitting however your body naturally wants to sit. Don't try to settle into a special pose or anything. Just trust your body, close your eyes, and sit with yourself.

Don't listen to anything -- no music, no guided meditation, no Solfeggio frequencies. Refrain from counting your breaths, watching your thoughts, or doing any kind of mental practice. Just sink into nothingness.

There's something so powerful about doing nothing that I can't fully explain it. It's different from conscious breathing or meditation because, with those, you're actually doing something.

In doing nothing, you simply embrace everything with your awareness. You include everything -- whatever comes and whatever goes -- and you do nothing about it. No letting go, no releasing, no reflecting, no wondering, no questioning, no inner dialogue. Just do nothing.

It might not be easy at first because we are taught and conditioned to always do something, even when we practice stillness or peaceful meditation. Even in meditation, you're doing something. You're following techniques, rules, guidance, or a specific practice.

With doing nothing, you don't do anything at all. You simply allow everything to be, while you are nothing.

And yes, there will be waves of insights, emotions, and feelings that come and go. And what do you do with them? Nothing. Let them do whatever they are meant to do. You are simply nothingness.

Whatever is meant to stay with you -- whatever you're meant to remember from your moment of nothingness --will stay. So don't even try to remember anything, because many things will come and go.

Why is it different from breathing or meditation? Because someone might say, "You're still breathing. You're still meditating."

I don't know how to fully explain it. It's more like tuning into something we come from -- something so familiar, so powerful, and yet seemingly nothing.

From the moment we're born, we're constantly asked to do things. So we, who came from nothing, gradually lose our ability to simply be that nothing. To melt into that space of nothingness -- a home-like, vacuum-like presence.

And please don't get me wrong. This is not the same as the idea of doing nothing defined in our 3D reality (which is often described as laziness or simply the literal act of doing nothing). What I'm describing is something entirely different. The nothing we come from is everything at the same time. That's why it feels so good to do nothing. It's a state of being, not an absence of action.