I generally love your writing, but I appreciate the realism in this post. It inspired me to write a response poem. Perhaps I’ll share it with you privately. I’ve been feeling a lot of resistance lately to changing bad habits, adopting good habits, getting things done that I need to be done. I’ve even felt like just running away from the discomfort that has come to walk with me for a while. I’d much rather escape life as it is — because it should be easy! Instead of just being. But I am trying to reconnect in mindfulness and have started writing more and trying to be with my felt experience.

Thanks for sharing!!

Ashlee (LK)

I love this post. And I hate this post! I logged off of the forum March 1st to spend a month not obsessively “scrolling”, but just continued my addiction on Facebook. Last night I said enough is enough, I’m not even looking at things I care about! So I deactivated it. It’s been SO hard to just DO NOTHING. When a pause naturally arrives, it’s so hard to just BE. I feel like I’ve been in tune with myself the past 6 months and really feeling like I can meet whatever arises. Yet, despite feeling like I am in a great place (yay!) I don’t think I am doing enough of nothing 🙂 Today after work, I scrolled through Instagram while melting into the couch, where I have been on my computer all day because of our “snow day.” I could have gotten an art project started or saved my backlog of camera photos or gone outside with my dog. I guess that is more doing, but at least it is a well-filling doing. Instead, I sat, doing nothing of consequence, but still DOING instead of being. Doing just to do something.

I’m going to listen to your recording and try not to do anything!