Sometimes Should Doing Nothing Be What We Should Be Doing?

The constant go-go-go of our culture isn’t healthy or sustainable.

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I frequently write about the need for action. If you desire to make any changes in your life, you must act. Conscious reality creation, mindfulness, and any work to manifest anything you desire requires you to do something.

Rather than living life passively, going with the flow, and allowing life to just live you — taking action, doing something — is how you can be in control of who, what, where, how, and why you are.

However — it’s also necessary to pause, take stock, and simply be — without actively doing.

While it’s empowering to be an active participant in your life experience — and to practice active, conscious awareness — sometimes doing nothing is what we should be doing.

Isn’t that counterproductive?

No. But lots and lots of messages in the world today will tell you that it is.

Look around you. Messages that inundate you from TV, billboards, social media, your email inbox, and everywhere you look hype constantly doing. Go here, do that, taste this, experience those, work that, travel here, go there. Do, take, act, work. Keep going, don’t stop. Rest is for…