It´s one thing to practice non-doing when in a meditation session, a moment of relaxation, or in the (relative!) comfort of your own home.
The real challenge comes, when we enter into relationship, with the things and people around us.
With the dishes that need doing, the weeds in the garden, or with a partner, parent, children.
What does “non-doing” mean then?
It means refusing habit. Discovering it, and refusing it. Whether habit is to avoid, put walls up, grit ones teeth and push through…
Our positive relationships can also be mired in habit… the comfort blanket that dulls, the excitement that leaves us exhausted and overwhlemed rather than energised…
Choosing non-doing means saying no to the familiar response, to all that I know, staying open and grounded. And it is a choice, not a
Alexander described it as a clear eyed state of readiness.