Doing nothing

Doing nothing is an absolute pleasure, that one can become better and better at even as a feeling being. Have you just sat in a room by yourself and just enjoyed that room? A view is nice but optional. At first you’ll want to check your phone, watch youtube videos etc. You might feel twinges of boredom, restlessness and claustrophobia. But as you let yourself settle in you’ll start to notice nice little things here and there within the room that you can like and enjoy. Eventually you could be sitting down for quite a while just enjoying the space, taking it in, having some nice thoughts and reflections about this and that too. It doesn’t have to progress quite to an EE or PCE even though that could happen. You’ve then moved from the restless wanting to sublime liking like Kent Berridge’s research talks about:

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