Hello and welcome to yet another edition of Extreme Meditation for Winning. I’m your guest blogger, Inmate #4127. I’m a doula, web designer and crisis actor.
This week I want to talk to you about the power of “doing nothing.” In this busy modern world of ours, it can be hard to slow to a halt and look around, particularly when the people behind you keep honking and saying, “You can’t park here, this is for ambulances!”
Can you remember the last time you did nothing?
I’d say the last time I truly stopped and did nothing was when I saw an elderly man being mugged in an alley last week. In a way, this allowed us both to be fully present in the moment, focused and not lost in our own thoughts.
I came over to the elderly man after he was mugged and attempted to explain how nourished my ExtremeBrain felt but he didn’t want to hear about it.
“Thanks for nothing,” he said.
“Exactly!” I said. “You get it!”
Then he started complaining that the mugger had stolen his porkpie hat. I suggested that perhaps the mugger was trying to do him a favor. Then he said the porkpie hat had the only existing photo of him and his beloved dead wife on their wedding day. I asked if there was a chance his wife was ugly so maybe he wouldn’t miss the photo…
