I'm participating in The Next Chapter book blog on "The Joy Diet" by Martha Beck.
This week's focus was nothing. We were to spend 15 minutes a day doing nothing. I found this rather difficult. I have trouble sitting still and being with my own thoughts, listening to the inner demons that tend to rear their heads when all is quiet and still. I've always had trouble meditating as well so this week wasn't very successful for me. I didn't even manage to find my nothing space, not to say I have given up on trying to find it, I just don't know where it is.
Thanks for sharing your struggles with finding your nothing spot this week. I only found mind briefly at the end of the week and I find it hard giving myself permission to do it again.
ReplyDeletedon't give up on nothing. once you get the hang of it, it can become quite addictive. so much joy has come out of my nothing this summer :) good luck with truth :)
ReplyDeleteWell, we can keep at it together! It's great to read how everyone else has experienced this week and to find that you are by far from the only one struggling! Maybe we will have better luck with truth! But keep at it... I'm sure it will eventually come for us all.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your honesty so much in regards to your wrestle with nothingness... Remember that it's not about doing nothing perfectly.... :)
ReplyDeleteSometimes you can focus on a single thing - like the dripping of a faucet or the sound of a fan. I like a fan for the "white noise" effect. It's not as easy to get distracted by outside things and if you have something to keep going to, the fan noise, then you release those words and phrases that keep jumping around so much. It just takes practice, like anything else. And even with lots of practice, I have days when I just can't quite get there.
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