Do you ever just sit and stare into the abyss? Listen to music or sit in silence, and just stare out into the unknown?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yesterday I spent hours just sitting and staring. Usually I\u2019d think what a waste of time as I have 10,000,000 things I could be spending my precious time doing. But instead, I just sat on a bench, listened to music and absorbed myself in doing nothing. Absolute nothing<\/strong>. And it was great. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Always being on a deadline or having a gazillion things on your to do list (and mind) can be so<\/em> overwhelming. Yes ten minutes of mindfulness a day is a really good way of adding in some self care and \u201cme\u201d down time. But sometimes I find it\u2019s not enough. I\u2019m so pressurised to get everything I can possibly do done – and that\u2019s mostly pressure I put on myself – that mindfulness can often be just another activity to check off my list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m a reflector, I always have been. Sometimes it\u2019s good – it gives me that headspace I need to really think and process my thoughts, feelings and actions. Sometimes it turns into rumination and is bad for me – that\u2019s when the spiralling can start. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But, sometimes you just need to do<\/em> nothing. Think<\/em> nothing. Be<\/em> nothing. Just sit and observe, without any time pressures or thinking about what\u2019s next after you\u2019ve \u201crelaxed\u201d a bit. I guess that\u2019s mindfulness in its self – it\u2019s the way it\u2019s meant<\/strong> to be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s almost like you have to teach and allow yourself to press the pause button every now and then. And that, quite frankly, is just an insane notion – how have we got to this stage in life where we have to learn to do nothing<\/em>?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n 21st century problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s be still more <3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you ever just sit and stare into the abyss? Listen to music or sit in silence, and just stare out into the unknown? Yesterday I spent hours just sitting and staring. Usually I\u2019d think what a waste of time as I have 10,000,000 things I could be spending my precious time doing. But instead, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,18,58],"tags":[63,62,65,66,4,16,20,41,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithoftheheart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}