Weekend Check-in: Why Stillness Feels Like Doing Nothing
A listener wrote in this week with something a lot of people are feeling but haven't said out loud: they've been trying to do the things the practice asks — the stillness, the presence, the slowing down — and it's boring. The mind races. Nothing lands. The quiet that's supposed to feel like relief feels like a room with no windows and no particular reason to stay in it.
This check-in takes that frustration seriously. Why does the removal of stimulation feel like deprivation rather than relief? Why does the Western nervous system push back so hard against the very thing every contemplative…
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