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10/25 Whole Life Wednesday

10/24/2017

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Nancy, Lauren and Katie H. broad jump across the gym. 
It's Whole Life Wednesday! Whew! We survived last week's healthy lifestyle challenge of a daily 10 minute meditation practice. How did you like meditating? Are you continuing your meditation habit this week? 
This week's challenge is to do nothing for 10 minutes everyday. For some of us, this might be very similar to our meditation practice. 
The instructions are simple:
  1. For 10 minutes, sit, lie, or stand and do nothing.
  2. Do not check your phone. Don’t read. Don’t even try to meditate.
  3. Just be there, and if any feelings come up — discomfort, restlessness, or even guilt or silliness that you’re not doing anything — just acknowledge them without needing to do anything about them, and let them pass. 
However, the implementation of nothingness might be harder than you think. I and the WLC folks think this is an important practice because:
"We are always doing something. When was the last time you actually did nothing?
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I mean nothing.

You probably can’t remember. There is either something we “have to” be doing or “should” be doing.And if those things are done, there is another something we want to be doing.

But how often does it occur to us that it’s actually okay, maybe even good, to do nothing?

To hammer home a truism: we are human beings, not human doings. Yet many (or most) of us have lost sight of what it means to “be” if we aren’t doing or accomplishing something. Even relaxing is something to get done.

We tend to measure our self-worth based on how many things we get done and/or the “quality” of the things we get done. But what if our absolute worth was inherent in our simply being? What if doing wasn’t how we calculated our value?

Try to think of the last time you lost yourself, when your ego or personality disappeared from your internal conversation. When you suddenly realized you had been doing nothing for the last several minutes. That almost felt outside of time, didn’t it? You may remember that there were no feelings of good or bad, just being. You were in contact with some deeper part of yourself. You didn’t even have to try.

Your life is important simply in your being. Doing can’t even begin compare."

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.”
-Jalal Al-Din Rumi
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