{"id":141,"date":"2009-04-28T17:36:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T17:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2010-06-17T23:05:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T23:05:17","slug":"how-hard-it-is-to-do-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/28\/how-hard-it-is-to-do-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"How hard it is to do Nothing&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new spiritual practice- to do Nothing.  and it is very very challenging.  This mind wants to stay very busy.  it&#8217;s like a little scavenger picking up thoughts and feelings to feed itself and keep it alive.  It has created itself a busy busy life of people, places and things.<\/p>\n<p>If I ask the mind to stop what it is doing right now- being on this computer- and go sit down and do nothing- it revolts!  &#8220;No way-  there are things to do, things to take care, communications to make!!&#8221;  it says.  So right now- I am going to make it go over there and sit. I will be back in 5 minutes to tell you about my experience&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>This mind is happy to be back at the computer because those 5 minutes were  no easy task!  It was busy thinking about lots of silly and mundane things that it HAD to do- pet Lucille, comment on the dog fart, get going to work, scratch my neck, glance around the room, think about who I was walking today, wonder if I got a new email, and on and on&#8230;and to just sit there- and allow these thoughts and not DO anything about them- was challenging.<\/p>\n<p>And yet-  there was another feeling in those 5 minutes deeper inside-  a kind of sigh of relief- that there was nothing I needed to do in those few moments..that this mind could rest if it wanted to&#8230;it was given time off..And there was a grasping of some Presence that was watching all this mind chatter.  This Presence was huge and tall and magnificent, quietly standing observing without judgement.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to let my mind have a few moments off every day.  Give it a cigarette break , shall we say!  It might want to chatter throughout that break, that&#8217;s okay.  I just want it to know it doesn&#8217;t have to do anything in that time.  It doesn&#8217;t have to fix, change, or understand anything&#8230;.and maybe it will come to realize that in these moments-  it can connect to that deeper place of resting anytime it needs to.\u00a0 My counselor said it very sweetly-\u00a0 &#8220;Allow your mind to have curious compassionate loving pauses throughout the day&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Doing Nothing is my new hobby.  It will take a while to master, yet I think once I get the hang of it-  it can nourish this mind when it is stressed or overwrought with thought . \u00a0  I&#8217;ll keep you posted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new spiritual practice- to do Nothing. and it is very very challenging. This mind wants to stay very busy. it&#8217;s like a little scavenger picking up thoughts and feelings to feed itself and keep it alive. It has created itself a busy busy life of people, places and things. If I ask &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/28\/how-hard-it-is-to-do-nothing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How hard it is to do Nothing&#8230;.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}