The Power of Doing Nothing

I’m sure you are aware of cycles, look to nature, and you will see a natural rhythm to things each and every day. But you may not be aware that those cycles and rhythms apply to all areas of your life. We aren’t meant to be going at full speed nonstop.

Trying to do everything on your own and helping others with their stuff too. Attempting to do too much for too long can have a very negative impact on your health, relationships, and your outlook on life.

It can take courage to stop and rest. Especially with how much importance the world puts on staying busy. We are taught to keep moving no matter what or risk being seen as lazy.

But what if stopping to do nothing is one of the best things you could do for yourself.

In times of high stress, it can seem counterintuitive to stop and relax. So many spinning anxious thoughts. Feeling you need to do something. Thinking you must keep moving or things will fall apart. It's often at those times we need to stop and do nothing the most.

Remember a time you had way too many things going on at once, and you finally snapped and just dropped it all. You completely reached your limit, maybe your physical body couldn’t do anymore, and your mental capacities were maxed out. Finally, you just didn’t care anymore!!

I look at it as dropping the resistance.

I’m sure you had no idea how things were going to work out, but you knew what you’d been doing wasn’t working, and you surrendered.

What happens in those moments is that a part of you remembers that you are infinitely loved and supported. That you do not have to do everything alone and you don’t have to do things in a hard struggling way. When you stop pushing you allow new energies of ease into your reality, but you have to stop pushing first.