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doing_nothing [2014-06-25 17:57] – nikdoing_nothing [2016-07-15 11:54] – maja
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 We began Doing Nothing as a formal programme in 2013. Informally, we've been exploring different techniques of being, introspection, meditation and contemplation for several years. We began Doing Nothing as a formal programme in 2013. Informally, we've been exploring different techniques of being, introspection, meditation and contemplation for several years.
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 +=== Futures of Doing Nothing ===
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 +A scenario workshop and series of pre-enactments on [[:/future_fabulators/futures_of_doing_nothing|The Futures of Doing Nothing]], as part of the Future Fabulators project. These pages include a good collection of [[:/future_fabulators/what_people_say_about_doing_nothing|quotes]]. 
  
 === Naikan === === Naikan ===
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 http://www.newstatesman.com/sci-tech/2014/02/mindfulness-racket-evangelists-unplugging-might-just-have-another-agenda http://www.newstatesman.com/sci-tech/2014/02/mindfulness-racket-evangelists-unplugging-might-just-have-another-agenda
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 +Links from the online [[Mindfulness Summit]] in October 2015
  
 ==== Karma Yoga ==== ==== Karma Yoga ====
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 Exercise proposal: Before beginning a meeting, sit together in silence for a few minutes. Become aware of yourself, your moods and expectations. Experience the presence of other people and remind yourself that they might have different moods or expectations, allow yourself to be open to anything that happens. Exercise proposal: Before beginning a meeting, sit together in silence for a few minutes. Become aware of yourself, your moods and expectations. Experience the presence of other people and remind yourself that they might have different moods or expectations, allow yourself to be open to anything that happens.
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 +==== Purposeless walking ====
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 +A number of recent books have lauded the connection between walking - just for its own sake - and thinking. But are people losing their love of the purposeless walk?
 +http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27186709
  
  
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 http://www.marxists.org/archive/lafargue/1883/lazy/index.htm http://www.marxists.org/archive/lafargue/1883/lazy/index.htm
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 +==== Dzabalebariti ====
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 +An excellent Balkan word meaning 'doing nothing': http://www.zargonaut.com/dzabalebariti
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 +A competition in lazing around in Monte Negro (the winner managed 37 hours without a toilet break): http://www.24sata.hr/cudne-vijesti/crna-gora-odmarao-je-35-sati-pa-postao-prvak-u-izlezavanju-378966
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 +==== theaternyx* ====
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 +"in october 2013 we had a great experience with our colleagues during one week of (nearly) doing nothing. we were creating a design for the week with some simple structures and tools to provide a frame for the group. after a time together in the morning with feldenkrais, breakfast and coffee, we started each day with a walk. walks in a special area - the east of linz; harbor, industrial zone,… 
 +after the walks we were guests at our host's places. also these hosts, sometimes a group, sometimes a single person didn't know what we were exactly up to. the only information given before was, that a group of people will come who will do nothing. and this situation was one of the "big surprises" for us. it brought all the participants into a very open, concentrated, lidless position. it opened a field of being in contact with people - some of whom you know, others you don't - in another way.
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 +all the people from our group and also our hosts were invited as the entire person they are. we were together not for work, nor to discuss something in particular; not to find anything out, not with a concrete theme or issue and nobody had to be a specialist for whatever … 
 +all the people were asked to be only themselves. they were not asked to participate because of their profession (artist, performer,…) or because they were particularely successful in anything. all these things weren't important for this coming and being together.
 +and still, in the evenings of those days it felt as if the group had become larger and larger and our experience was that the time together with these people was so inspiring, a respectful learning from each other by doing nothing together."
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 +Claudia Seigmann, theaternyx*
 +
 +==== Five reasons ====
 +
 +  - “Doing nothing” isn’t really doing nothing
 +  - Aimlessness, rest and even boredom can boost creativity
 +  - Too much busyness is counterproductive
 +  - The brain depends on downtime
 +  - You’ll regain control of your attention
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 +http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/09/five-reasons-we-should-all-learn-to-do-nothing
 +
 +==== Space Out ===
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 +A few weeks ago, on a Sunday afternoon, about 70 people gathered at Ichon Hangang Park in Seoul, South Korea, to do absolutely nothing. There was not a smartphone in sight, no texting or taking selfies, and no one rushing to get anywhere. 
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 +The crowd was taking part in South Korea's annual Space Out Competition, a contest to see who can stare off into space the longest without losing focus. WoopsYang, the visual artist who created the event in 2014, said it's designed to highlight how much people have been overworking their brains and how much they stand to gain by taking a break.
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 +"I was suffering from burnout syndrome at the time, but would feel extremely anxious if I was sitting around doing nothing, not being productive in one way or another," she told VICE. Eventually, she realized she wasn't alone. "I thought to myself, We would all feel better about doing nothing if we did nothing together as a group." 
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 +http://www.vice.com/read/doing-nothing-has-become-a-sport-in-south-korea
  
  
 +==== On Agalmic ====
  
 +Nik Gaffney's collection of articles related to doing nothing: http://agalmic.org/tagged/doing%20nothing
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