My challenge! Do absolutely nothing for one hour!

My challenge!  Do absolutely nothing for one hour!

ARE YOU READY TO ACCEPT IT ?

I know your response.  You are instantly ready to accept this challenge.  Go ahead. Accept it and try it out.

Ah, yes, you can sit comfortably.  But now, my dear friend, do not move at all.  

• No moving your palms- your feet- no looking here and there anxiously.  
• No, no, do not get up from your seat.  
• No, no, do not even try to speak.  
• No gestures of uneasiness, my dear friend.  
• No yawning.
• Just sit.  Just sit idle, doing nothing.  
• What you say?  What if you could move your legs, feet or palms, or fingers, or simply whistling?
• No, my dear friend, just sit doing nothing.  That is the challenge. 

Now there you are.  I knew very well you will agree and accept the fact how much difficult it is to sit idle and  doing nothing.

Let me to share with you the reality that doing nothing makes us feel restless, agitated. 

Now it is our firsthand experience that if we do not have anything to do we grow restless.  We try different poses to sit, still we are not satisfied.  Then we shake our foot or toes, or fingers.  We suddenly remember to have forgotten reading newspaper.  Then picking the newspaper we try to go through the news.  Then suddenly we throw the newspaper aside and switch on TV, surfing the channels, then we pick up the mobile phone, try to see any miscalls, messages etc. or we may suddenly feel thirsty or hungry and go to the kitchen to find some thing or open the fridge to have some drinks and so on. 

My dear friend, to stay with our self only requires tremendous  strength to face the real ' I '. 

And that is what we are afraid of.

We must understand the significance of sitting alone doing absolutely nothing.

By doing so we at once come in contact with our real self.

At this moment we must be careful not to speak with our mind. 

Instead, by focusing on our mind,without trying to control, we can make our mind calm and peaceful.

This is the time also to train our sense organs to perceive the world around us we need to instead of perceiving the world our sense organs want us to.

Remember the proven fact that restless mind affects our health.

When our mind is agitated, the breathing speed is uneven and higher, the blood pressure is higher than normal and so on.  This leads to abnormality in blood pressure, diabetes, and other such lifelong problems and consequent medications.

Therefore, meditation is advised to overcome such problems. 

Why not to adopt this simple but  effective,natural, proven method than inviting the health issues?

What do you think?

Next time....