Achieve Your Goals Through Non-Doing
Discover how embracing stillness and letting go of constant effort can lead to greater clarity and success. In this meditation talk, you’ll learn how to align your intentions with mindful presence, allowing your goals to manifest naturally and effortlessly. Experience the power of non-doing as a path to achieving what truly matters.
Transcript
The most important thing in order to progress and achieve your goals and come closer to your vision is to learn how to not do.
Because we all know how to do,
We all have the same 24 hours,
We all know how to move our bodies,
We all know how to do things in life.
But what's the most important asset in today's world,
And not just in today's,
I truly believe it was always an important asset,
To have the skill of being able to sit still with yourself,
To be able to just be without trying something,
Without trying to do something,
Without trying to accomplish something,
Without trying to be forceful.
You see,
There's always a natural energy that is coming in through us.
With every inhalation that we take,
There's new energy,
An exhalation.
We're letting it move in and out,
In and out.
And this is not something we're doing.
It's weird that we have the assumption that everything in our life is based on what we think we do.
But imagine what a message would be to think about it all the time,
Like,
Oh,
I need to breathe in,
Out,
In,
Out.
Or I need to beat my heart,
And I need to think about it every single time.
We wouldn't have time for anything else.
If we were in the conscious management of our own breath and our own heartbeat,
We wouldn't be able to focus on anything else,
Because these things are happening all the time,
24 hours,
Whether you're aware of it or not.
Your breath and your heartbeat and everything else in your body is working 24 hours,
24 hours,
Without pause,
Without rest.
And so you see,
There is a fundamental energy within you,
A fundamental force that is making this happen.
And so there is movement.
Always,
There is movement.
Through your breath,
Through your heartbeat,
There is movement.
And so when we sit still,
When we're not using our hands,
Our feet,
Our body to create something,
To create form,
To create geometry,
To create ideas,
To voice something,
We are allowing ourselves to look into more subtle states of movement.
Because the most subtle movement that we can experience right now is definitely our breath and our heartbeat.
And these are always movements,
Subtle movements that are happening within our body.
And everything else is basically an extension of that movement.
If it weren't for the inhalation,
Exhalation movement,
If it weren't for the heartbeat movement,
There wouldn't be any other movement that we could do.
So it gives us a rhythm,
It gives us a balance.
Inhalation,
Exhalation,
Beat in,
Beat out,
Heartbeat,
Heartbeat,
Pumping in,
Pumping out,
Pumping in,
Pumping out.
And so what we mean by not taking action is really understanding and coming back to the more subtle movements that actually create all the other movements that we do in our day-to-day life.
By becoming aware of the most subtle movement,
We realize where it all comes from.
Because taking an action with our hands and all of that is more gross movement.
It's definitely something more visible,
Something that we can feel more or are used to feel more.
And even that,
If we are in a state of compulsiveness or automatism,
And everything is based on a reaction on the environment we're living in,
Even that becomes unaware.
Even that becomes something we're not even aware of,
That we're usually using our hands and doing something.
And we don't even realize that all of those movements create certain states of consciousness,
Certain states of mind,
And those lead to different thoughts and different emotion.
Because every position that you put your body in has a certain geometry,
And that geometry leads to a certain thought.
It can generate certain thoughts through that geometry.
The posture you're assuming has a certain geometry,
A certain sound,
And that leads to different thoughts and different emotion.
I mean,
You know that by experience.
This is not just,
This is not a philosophy or anything.
This is not something you need to believe in.
Just check it.
You see it every time you feel angry.
You see your shoulders are in a certain way,
Maybe more tense around here.
Maybe it's like this.
So the geometry of your body is different.
When you feel sad,
When you feel happy,
Maybe when you feel excited,
There's like this area in your chest here.
When you feel free,
You feel like opening,
Spreading your arms,
Or at least it feels like that.
So every position that we can assume has a certain state of consciousness and a certain state of thought and emotion that can be generated by those states.
And so again,
Every posture influences those very subtle movements,
The breath and the heartbeat.
You can test it out.
Try a certain position to sit in.
Maybe you want to keep your legs crossed and sit for it for a moment to just keep your hands up on your thighs facing downward.
You can close your eyes and feel into your breath.
How's your breath?
How is your heartbeat?
Feel into it and see how the movement is and then change your position,
Change your posture and do the same.
Close your eyes,
Be in the posture and sit still for a moment and just observe.
How is your breath?
How is your heartbeat?
And if you want to go even a step further,
You can measure it.
You can measure your heartbeat in a certain position.
See how it influences your heartbeat.
See how it influences your breath.
Does your breath become more open in a certain position or more shallow?
Does it become more rapid or more calm?
See how this system,
The body,
Is such a subtle,
Sensitive system that can perceive many different aspects and information,
But most of the time it gets filtered because we are in a state of reactiveness to everything.
So we're seeing something,
Oh,
Now I have fear.
We're seeing something else,
Oh,
Now I'm scared.
Or we're seeing something else,
Now that makes me uncertain.
And so when we are constantly in this state of compulsiveness,
When we're seeing something and we're disliking it or liking it,
We're changing the way we see the thing itself.
And so it is not anymore the thing that we see,
But it becomes something else.
It becomes a reaction.
And so we're not able to perceive it for what it truly is.
It just becomes something else,
A reaction.
It just becomes something else,
A reaction.
And so we're moving from reaction to reaction in our life and end up in places that one day we might wake up and think,
How did I end up here?
And so we want to distance ourselves a bit from that automatism,
From the automatic reaction.
And we can start by noticing more subtle movements within our body.
Because right now there's gross movements.
We're doing constantly something with our hands or our feet and using our body and everything.
Allowing ourselves to really bring awareness to movement itself,
Starting by the subtle movement.
And you know,
Even if you don't,
Like if it's hard for you right now to be aware of the subtle movements,
Like your heartbeat or your breath,
Start to move your arms,
But consciously.
You know,
You can lift your arm right now and just feel into it.
How does it feel to lift my arm?
Very slowly and relaxed.
And put it down again.
You can bring it up and bring it down again.
And see how that movement feels.
Bring awareness and attention to the movement of your body.
And so as you're nurturing awareness to every movement that you make,
You become more aware of what is happening within you.
Because every movement that you make influences the way you feel,
The way you perceive,
The way you think.
And so if you want to take direction of your system,
If you want to intentionally direct your system,
I'm asking you to explore and experiment.
Be curious about your system,
Your own body and mind.
See how it is functioning.
Look into the mechanisms,
Not by reading any books,
Not by looking out there for information.
Information can help you as inspiration.
Information can help you to look through different perspectives.
But embodiment will only come from experimentation.
It will only come from practice.
It will only come from exploration.
Because when you're exploring yourself,
You're creating a new pathway that only you can take,
That only you can do.
This pathway within you,
This explorative pathway of getting aware of your body and mind,
Nobody can do that for you.
Yes,
Someone can give you practices,
As we did just now,
To experiment with it.
Someone can bring awareness to it.
But if you want to cultivate awareness,
Then you need to do it yourself.
You need to explore what it means to be human and have a genuine curiosity around that.
Thank you so much for being with me here today.
I'll see you in the next episode.
