Rest in motion
Many people seem to think the 'good' state of being, the 'ground' state, is a relaxed state, a state with lots of rest and very little action. Because they think the ground state is the relaxed state, they act like maintaining any other state requires effort, requires suffering. This is
Many people seem to think the 'good' state of being, the 'ground' state, is a relaxed state, a state with lots of rest and very little action. Because they think the ground state is the relaxed state, they act like maintaining any other state requires effort, requires suffering. This is a failure mode that I used to fall into pretty regularly. I would model my work as a finite stream of tasks that needed doing. I'd think "once I've done the laundry and bought new shoes and finished the grocery shopping and fixed the bugs in my code and finished the big refactor, everything will be in order, an
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related reading
- Rest in motionmindingourway.com
- Rest in motion — LessWronglesswrong.com
- Working yourself ragged is not a virtuemindingourway.com
- Stop trying to try and trymindingourway.com
- Emotional managementscattered-thoughts.net
- Rest Days vs Recovery Days — LessWronglesswrong.com
- Meaningful Rest — LessWronglesswrong.com
- Do Less.usefulfictions.substack.com
- slowness as an idealtommydixon.ca
- The Religion of Speedgraybeard.ing
- Stop trying to try and try — LessWronglesswrong.com
- on and offava.substack.com