If you sit quietly for 15 minutes

When I was preparing to cook yesterday afternoon, a hailstorm isolated me in the kitchen. I had no mobile phone or electronic products for entertainment.

People always have to do something to make themselves look less boring. Then I thought of the "sit quietly for 15 minutes" that I had read in a book before.

"Sit quietly for 15 minutes", learned from the Shuimei Story "Every Day Before the Age of 30", is a method of treating procrastination, which is called "fighting poison with poison". Although I have seen it a long time ago, I have never tried it.

The method is very simple. Procrastination is probably putting things off and not wanting to do them.

The "fighting fire with fire" method is to let you do nothing, just sit on the chair, don't do anything, don't surf the Internet, don't look at your phone, don't communicate with others, don't organize files, Don't do anything, just sit there quietly by yourself, for about 15 minutes.

Because yesterday’s situation was not about procrastinating because of what I wanted to do, but it was another kind of unique space for myself.

In the first two minutes of meditating, I was in a very restless mood. Before I could calm down, I was hoping that the rain, which had turned into heavy rain, would stop soon so that I could get my phone and take a look. Is there anyone who can send me a message or something.

Slowly, it reached the stage of speculation. Just think about some unlikely things, some things in the future.

Later, I suddenly realized that I had set the flag this month. Have I implemented it seriously? Have I managed my time well? Is your energy managed well? As I gradually reflected on myself, my idea at that time was to get up and accomplish my goals. But, no.

Then I thought of recording today’s idea in a memo to inspire some inspiration. How should I write, how should I write, and how should I structure the entire article.

In short, although it was 15 minutes, it was not very long, and it passed in a blink of an eye while reading jokes on my phone. But just sitting quietly is quite a long time, and you can think of many things that you don’t usually realize.

The book says: The reason why "fighting fire with fire" is effective is because during the "15 minutes of doing nothing", we fully realize that sitting just is boring and painful.

Compared with the boredom and pain of doing nothing, completing work seems to become more interesting, so you can immediately feel motivated to take action, and procrastination is cured.

Chinese people pay attention to tranquility to cultivate the mind. It is a rare exercise that relieves fatigue. In this fast-paced era, you might as well spend 15 minutes every day to meditate and cultivate your body and mind.