inactivity is good too - silence and peacfulness and being in nature and retreats and getting enough sleep and not trying to do too much and things like that.
I don't see that as "inactivity". I see that as "resting".
Inactivity is not doing anything, just sitting around staring at the wall, brooding on bad thoughts so you're too exhausted to do anything. Resting is what you do inbetween activities, so that you have mental and physical energy, and don't completely run out of spoons. Resting is a good thing, because it recharges your energy. Inactivity is a bad thing because it wastes energy (being trapped in the bad thought processes make your energy leak away).
Creativity & craft can be exercise too :P Cooking - and, I suppose, painting and some kinds of sculpting - are whole-body exercises that involve moving around a room, to gather ingredients and things like that. They're particularly good kinds of exercise because you get something at the end of it - the effort is rewarded with cake. So even if the exercise doesn't make you feel better, the cake might.
The badly-applied "CBT-lite" scares me :/ CBT is such a powerful tool when used correctly that I'm sure it could do damage in the wrong hands. Blah.
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Re: yes no maybe
Date: 2007-08-02 08:27 pm (UTC)I don't see that as "inactivity". I see that as "resting".
Inactivity is not doing anything, just sitting around staring at the wall, brooding on bad thoughts so you're too exhausted to do anything. Resting is what you do inbetween activities, so that you have mental and physical energy, and don't completely run out of spoons. Resting is a good thing, because it recharges your energy. Inactivity is a bad thing because it wastes energy (being trapped in the bad thought processes make your energy leak away).
Creativity & craft can be exercise too :P Cooking - and, I suppose, painting and some kinds of sculpting - are whole-body exercises that involve moving around a room, to gather ingredients and things like that. They're particularly good kinds of exercise because you get something at the end of it - the effort is rewarded with cake. So even if the exercise doesn't make you feel better, the cake might.
The badly-applied "CBT-lite" scares me :/ CBT is such a powerful tool when used correctly that I'm sure it could do damage in the wrong hands. Blah.