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Did you do DN? [badge]Yes[/badge]
How long did you do nothing today? [badge]30min / per 30min[/badge]
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Sat there, home on the couch and on the balcony and tried to do nothing. Fight against procrastination, researched, did all kinds of “useful” things first – and getting up late.
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Sometimes it evades conscious grasp when there is oo much activity. Too many thoughts. Felt like I did no nothing. Reports also take time. About 15min-30min each, if you have notes to transcribe… Check in and reports took about 1,5h today. Administration of doing nothing is certainly something, at least in the first 40 days.
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That I loose my time and focus sometimes, especially if a day already has begun late. If I am not attentive and not setting clear goals for the time remaining, but e.g. stay miserable, then I and loose the rest of it, too. Very uncomfortable. I learned that being angry about yourself is stalling DN. Better getting over it with a decent portion of “letting go”.
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Ok. I should take the „brackets“ more serious – I am joyful, but do I earnestly take it as a tool, an instrument? I feel a bit that the appeal and the drive is slipping. I need to work against that. It has simply to be done. I have a contract with myself. I do this for ME – and to let people know if and how it worked.
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BEFORE: I do not know. A bit tight and already pissed that I got up so late.
WHILE: Shadows. No real focus. I flee into books and their world which is then rerun in my head. Replay and replay.
AFTER: hmm.
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Did you do DN? [badge]Yes[/badge]
How long did you do nothing today? [badge]10min / per 5min[/badge]
Answers NT
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Leaning at a rail on a terrace overlooking the city of Baden, feeling the warmth of the sun in my face… Too many thoughts, can`t manage to get rid of them, unable to feel the present moment, so I go for a walk in the park, doing some physical exercises…
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When i`m in, then i`m in… Until the mental rat-race starts again, pushing me to any activities- it´s awesome to lose control like that.
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Hmm, I found out today, that i`m not only impatient but also lazy… I nearly can`t stand that discovery…
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Today I really felt pissed off… hard to love myself for that.
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The merits are coming in sort of now, today…after 11 days / when the mind settles and calms down. I relished the “being”. I was simply present gained my benefit from that. I do not wait for it anymore, for the pleasure, the indulgence. Just do it. / My brain is overtaxed and that drives me crazy / irritates me / the mentality of zapping is only an exterior expression of an interior state / the brain zaps / simply looking at a lamp / that soothes, because this time I did it consciously and I observed myself without judging / also sleep is not recreative anymore, because there is permanent “work” ongoing inside / the only thing you can do is to restrain the brain / to let it drain off / my mind now gets used to the horse-gear / to tame the inner spasms / the undisciplined monkey brain / the Master-modulator, which rules all the other controls / Master N / so my mind learns to stay with one thing through Doing Nothing / and that has impact on the following other activities, too / after about 15min / focussing and concentration / to stay with one thing, with the nothing-thing / better in control, then I am the Mastermind / and not the submissive servant / if I want to evade the Mastermind-set catches the monkey mind and and brings him back down to earth / kind of Master-competence / the Check in as an opportunity to process the doing nothing one experienced for the ears of someone else and to take the chance and record that / or write it down / keep on doing nothing – K – O – DN /
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