Be Your Own Cheerleader Video Tip: Practice Inaction

In another quick clip from Neelu’s LinkedIn Live with Kelly from Equipt Women, Neelu shares a counterintuitive approach to problem solving; knowing when nothing is the most appropriate thing to do.

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Kelly: You, you advised to practice inaction. Is that what you mean in this case in terms of taking a breath or not reacting or waiting six seconds, or other, other techniques that you would suggest in terms of practicing inaction? Cause I think we're so used to practicing action that practicing inaction is a new discipline.

Neelu: Yeah. And especially in the West where we're like, go, go, go. In New York, it's like the, the quickest person always wins, right? So it's actually for practicing inaction in this essence, in this instance, what I'm referring to is really around Buddhist and Eastern religions like principles that suggest like, you know, you, you put your foot forward and you take all of the actions you need to take, but ultimately not being attached to the results. So it's not like I'm suggesting you just sit on your couch and do nothing. Do everything you need to do to get that promotion, to get that raise, to get whatever. But there's certain things that you just can't control.

So after you put your best foot forward, practicing inaction really just looks like accepting what occurs and realizing that there's a reason that it's happening for whatever reason you might not understand in the moment, but in this instance, practicing inaction is about putting your best foot forward and not being attached to results, which is a basic premise in a lot of Buddhist methodologies.

It, is really like, you know, you're not attached to the results. Yeah. Because there's certain things that we just cannot control.