So how come if I do nothing, lie in bad for an hour, it’s different from sitting on a chair and doing meditation for an hour. Even if you take the case of meditation where you don’t have a goal of focusing on something. Just closing your eyes and experiencing what is. If you think you think, if you perceive emptiness it’s okay.
There may be some placebo, look we are doing this healthy thing, we are withstanding boredom. But I am pretty convinced if any it’s a small effect. There is something a lot larger at play.
I just returned from three days of meditating and I clearly see the effects.
It is puzzling why this notdoing is so much doing, so muych feeling of centering, equanamity, deeper connection to yourself, better expressing what is.
One process that is happening there is when you stand extened time there you are aligning on what is it to experience the thing. If you say feel a little chaotic, multi-threded inside (as I do often), experiencing it clearer that it is happening, if you feel slight confusing in emot world, you may gain some clarity. oh this is what this emotion feels like.
My uncertain hypothesis to why there is a difference between lying on the couch and doing nothing, to siting on a chair and meditating is that it gives a framing. Now this body is sitting still for this amount of time. It’s a point of reference in space and in time. It sort of gained special and temporal identity. This was the time of not doing. But what if you would tell yourself okay I will be sitting on the couch for one hour and not doing anything. It would have also identity: you are on the couch and not doing for 1hour. I will run this experiment.
If it fails it means it may be about posture (feels less likely), placebo I mentioned earlier (less likely), sensory deprivation while being conscious (closed eyes)