Yesterday was a pretty difficult day for me to stay in the zone,
and while I asked myself some good questions to see if I was in the mood to practice,
I woke up with the realization today that maybe I’ve been asking the wrong questions in those moments.
Typically, I’ll ask myself something along the lines of,
“If you don’t want to practice now, what do you want to do?”
And very often the response I have is “Nothing”,
so I just keep on practicing because I can’t think of anything more worthwhile to do.
However, I think that response hasn’t been translating properly,
in part because I was asking the wrong question.
Instead, I need to start asking, “Would you prefer to do nothing right now?”
Perhaps I’m not looking to switch tasks, I’m looking to drop tasks and sit in nothing.
The key word is nothing, and I think that’s where my mind and body want to spend
more deliberate time in order to cool down and reset,
instead of pondering adjacent things to check off
from my daily agenda.
Here’s to nothing!