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ustice for all who do nothing!
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Did you do DN? [badge]Yes[/badge]
How long did you do nothing today? [badge]1h / per 30min[/badge]
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Getting ice-cream. Walking with a girl. No purpose and solution to anything. Sunday activity as DN. On the way home after dinner outside, very happy to stroll slowly home for 30min.
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Works ok, an other person seems as concentrating on DN as on the other hand distracting. Ice-cream is melting to nothing, food is being digested to nothing (well almost, it is vanishing in your hands!), not even the remains stay inside of the body…still the feeding activity is making us productive or at least ready for that. Strolling and smiling lets you get behind the eyes of people. You appear in their heads – but smiling.
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I like lively places like Italian Piazzas because people go there for communication, not just to be seen. Even though I would call me somehow an human rights fighter and an „activist“ I realized that I never entered the refugee camp in Berlin Kreuzberg Oranienplatz. They are living there like „Occupy“. Why, I asked myself? Where do they come from (—Libya as I know now…)? Don ́t you want to help them or know who they are— well, DN put a focus on that.
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Good. Somehow the scheduling drifts into the everyday, so there are not carved out blocks, but it rather happens. Is that good? Taking time consciously is Ok. The Sunday just passed by. It felt a bit like chore, something I must to do today. But being in company made it quite difficult to squeeze in time for DN…
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BEFORE: Spending a „normal“ Sunday with company is already kind of lazy and relaxing, talking about this and that. But then really going for DN is difficult. Icecream saved it a bit. It felt aimless to eat it, it was good and it was already a bit autumnish. Walking home as well in the night. Not the right time for DN and also in favour of a goal, reaching home. So rather disqualifyed almost.
WHILE: Flicking the switch. This happens now better and better. Just staying in a DN mode, broadening the gaze, walking slower or even in a faster, self-confident, exploring pace, being a Time-lord. Met a black refugee guy sitting on a bench outside the camp at Oranienplatz with his laptop talking on skype I guess / He greeted me like an old friend / I love those instant bridges because I look friendly and curious /
AFTER: Good. No particular things happening or deriving from DN I could pinpoint.
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Ice melts / moments, too / lick them away, get the flavour / smile and you get a greeting back / don´t forget about Heinz v. Förster / publish his message you received years ago – do something with it! / if you can look at a tree you can talk with refugees, too – who are forced to do nothing /
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Did you do DN? [badge]Yes[/badge]
How long did you do nothing today? [badge]30min / per 30min[/badge]
Answers NT
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Trying to walk with very reduced speed… Walking on the hill, watching my breath, opening eyes for the nature surrounding me… looking very consciously, smelling, taking one step after the other and being present while doing with that…
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DN is not DN – it is a totally new world for me and it is pure abundance… This is the unknown, hidden side of the world – it feels like the original life…
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I have to deal with my resistance to idle, embrace it, look at it and then just do it … it works… but it`s not important if it works – I mustn`t “make that happen” as well…also the feeling that I want to quit surfaced… but I go on…
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I experience aspects of me, which I do not like, which I tried to cover with pseudo-activities…
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