NEW MISSION: DOING NOTHING

There's a good section of the population who are already very good at this, if this is you, go do something productive. For the rest of you, i'd like to invite you to the promised land, it's called Nada-landia. The place of doing nothing. Monks do it and how wrong can they really be? They live to be 300 years old. Make no mistake, it is an art. It requires just enough energy not to fall asleep but not so much energy that you end up thinking. Taking my lead from Eckhart Tolle (http://www.eckharttolle.com/), it starts with not labeling or naming anything but just experiencing it. Try not saying in your mind, now i'm going to go lay on the couch, just experience laying on the couch-you will see how very different the two are. I've gotten pretty good at it, but sometimes i do get jacked up about this or that and need to be reminded that there's only ever this moment. And being present in the nothingness IS being present in all of it! Now go lay on the couch and do nothing, that's an order!