MASH Magazine Issue 1 | Page 21

and even more productive, which proved to be true Psychological and physiological studies suggest that doing nothing tunes down the nervous system, acts as anti-stress, sharpens the senses, and raises one’s awareness of one’s own body and its tensions. Idleness is also essential to help you listen to the messages of your heart and soul, which often get drowned out in the roar of mental machinery. They documented the outcome in an online project: www.40daysofdoingnothing.com ABCs of Doing Nothing. “We need exemplary mass-trust in ‘nothing‘, rendering it socially acceptable,” say Herwig Kopp and Norbert Trompeter. “Just as the siesta was introduced into Japanese companies because napping after lunch was making employees happier and more productive.” being, you can start with three simple steps: With their research they want to infect as many people as possible with constructive idleness, taking horror vacui) which haunts our times like a ghost. To this end, they have declared 2. go to a certain place. It can be a park, river, or lakeside: ideally a quiet place even if y