Benefits of Idleness

Here is a contra view that you gain even by your idleness if you make up your mind to make good use of it. Idleness, of not only oneself but of others also, often worries persons usually remaining active all the time. But idleness is not that bad, it has many positive aspects.

When you are in resting mode, your mind gets busy in repairing your worn-out body tissues and you feel better after the rest. But there is a precondition for this gain - you must be tired of actions and your body must need a rest. Working hard and taking rest is not idleness, what we are talking about.

Idleness is when you have been taking rest with doing any tiring activities. It is just that you don't have mood to work when you should have been. Don't worry for such idle moments of your body, but to make good use of suc moments, relax your mind also and don't try to think anything, or in other words, just leave your mind free.

Mind has a tendency not to take rest unnecessarily and idle, even if the body is taking rest or just idling. Even during sleep, the mind after getting its quota of rest, engages itself in showing you dreams. So, you can not make your mind to idle about even after making it to relax.

When the mind is given signals to relax, it starts making remote connections - spatially as well as temporally, which is not possible during your routine activities or busy moments. It connects you to events of remote past or remote future, and to distant places and events. After these connections, it gives you thought waves which fuel your creativity some time later. For this, you need to give enough time to build up a large database of information from remote places or times. This accumulation will, on its own, provide you with something very new or strange, what you might not even dreamed of.  It may look fishy to you, but if you make use of such waves boldly and creatively, you put yourself in a pioneering gear through giving expressions to te strange things your mind connects you with.

For such gains, you must -

1. Don't just worry that you are idle, or have nothing to do, or have no mood to do anything.
   
2. Relax your mind from te current events, worries and problems and just keep on watching thought waves in te ocean of mind. 
3. Never treat your unorthodox thoughts as undesirable or unnecessary or vague ideas. But treasure them through some written, symbolic or pictorial notes. And let such notes accumulate.
4. At some free moments later, review tese notes and try to make some sense out of these and give these ideas a concrete shape.