Day 3 - doing nothing and being everything · 𝘾𝘼𝙋𝙏𝙄𝙑𝘼𝙏𝙀 ʟᴇᴀᴅꜱ 🐛

Day 3 - doing nothing and being everything

Do you know that humans are not made to be still and calm in the present moment?

The self-awareness and mindfulness practices are actually going against our biological instincts: playing continuously yo-yo between the past and the future in order to survive.

We consciously or unconsciously analyse past situations and try to make predictions for the future in order to escape/ avoid danger.

Hence, learning to simply BE takes courage, persistence, and serious efforts. It is not as easy as some present it to be - speaking from a 32 years of experience with meditating and martial arts.

If you did the task Nav set for us on Day 3, take a moment to acknowledge yourself - you did a practice that a tiny percent of humans do.

I am curious to know how has your journey into mindfulness and self-awareness started?

Share below, I would love to read about it.

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Here is how it went for me:

I started practicing being here and now while I was in a hospital with tuberculosis back in 1993.

As I was not responding to the medications, the only thing I could do was to hope I will heal, listen to my body, observe it and tell it it was getting better.

One night I had a moment of a trance, between reality and dreaming, in which I saw tiny people fixing my lungs - and I started recovering very quickly.

I got of the hospital, started learning qigong, breath work, became a martial artist and took part in national and European taichi chuan competitions. But this is not the point - my life and attitude to health and wellbeing changed, thanks to this serious health challenge I went through.

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