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Originally Posted by Gem
However, it's ironically very hard to not-do. We are habitually ingrained to do something and react to everything.
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Very true! I think we're pretty much hard-wired to strive and struggle in order to survive and find happiness (however fleeting), so meditating in the way you suggest tends to feel counter-instinctual - 'Wait, so I just sit and do literally nothing? And that's supposed to be
beneficial in some way?' But by sitting with ourselves in this way, becoming truly intimate with our inner lives, what's been hitherto suppressed and denied in us can start to arise and release, and in time we begin to feel more clarity and peace.