Monday, September 22, 2025
I too often sing the praises of doing nothing, but doing nothing is even better than singing praises. “Don’t just sit there, do something!” Well, just sitting there, precisely doing nothing, opens a whole new world. The mind can’t fathom this as an effective way to take life on. First thing in the morning, it has to check the headlines to see what it can do to fix the world. Then the mind has to stew and worry about everything it has to do to fix life and the future. Do your world, your life, and your future need fixing?
My dad used to say, “Leave well-enough alone.” The future is well enough, so is your life, and so is your world, but that’s too easy for the head. The head needs something to solve. It says, “Don’t just sit there, do something!” And then, it re-loops a new problem. It says, “Calm down.” Then it says, “Don’t just sit there, do something.” Then it says, “Stop all that thinking and pull it together!” Then it says, “Don’t just sit there, do something.” And like a carrot dangling in front of a mule, the mind spins, leading us in circles.
The mind isn’t helping. The mind is spinning in a rut, doing nothing. Watch how it scares you. Watch how it tries to fix your life, the future, and the past. Watch how it sits there, loopy, and has no effect on the present, other than scaring you, of course.
Catch the mind trying to do something. Everything gets done, and might I add, effortlessly. Which part of yourself do you truly trust – the loopy mind or the effortless, quiet essence who is content to just “sit there” and allow it all to be done as it is, now?