Hello and welcome to enlightened empaths your community for the spiritually awakened.

Today we're going to discuss the beauty of doing nothing.

While everyone is telling you to go go go and chase your New Year's resolutions,

we're going to pop in this week to remind you to just stop a moment or to and allow yourself to just be.

This concept of doing nothing, it's really gaining popularity lately. I think it's

called Nixon. I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. Many confuse it with meditation or mindfulness, but Nixon is about doing nothing, being or feeling any certain way.

It's just the art of allowing yourself to sit and stare out a window or

veg out on your couch or your deck and just do nothing.

Studies show that taking moments in our day to practice this is not a sign of laziness.

Rather, it helps us reduce stress and anxiety. Studies have even shown that it

helps fight off the common cold. So, Denise, when I was trying to research this new trendy

concept of doing nothing, it really struck me that I haven't done nothing in a long

time.

I haven't either and I think it's almost uncomfortable sometimes.

And I was talking with someone quite a while ago and in a friendship kind of way and they were talking about well you're always so busy you always so stay so busy you don't relax you don't sit at and but I think that can be because it wasn't an option for so long and I don't mean that in a martyr way I mean it more life is

busy and when you're spinning so many plates and if you have young children or you're a single parent or you're working an intensive job or it doesn't matter fill in the blank

I think sometimes we get on that track of always moving always going always keeping up that it's really uncomfortable to try to do nothing and just

for people who might be listening it's N-I-K-S-U-N. It's not like the old president.

Well, you know, my friend Allison and I have this tradition of going to the beach every

New Year's Eve and just

talking about it and I had such a we all had such a crazy weird year right and so we're just talking about it and I was saying how like in addition to having to morph into like a home school teacher I'm taking care of two parents in two different

households now and I just feel pulled in all these different directions. And my friend Allison said, well, we're just

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