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February 17
The Art of Puttering
Most often puttering is seen as a way to procrastinate doing something we don’t want to do. It is considered a waste of valuable time.
But puttering isn’t all bad. In fact, puttering can be very beneficial to your well-being.
Puttering means to spend time in a relaxed way doing small jobs and other things that are not very important.
Wandering aimlessly around helps you relax and rebalance. Being unfocused is freeing. It allows you to be spontaneous.
When you are stressed, tired or stumped while working on a goal-orientated and purposeful activity puttering gives you mind a break.
You are actually giving yourself time to allow the mind to rest and wander. It leads you into a space of calm. While your mind is at rest allows for ideas and breakthroughs to happen.
The benefits of puttering include:
- It helps you rest the mind and become calm
- It helps you rebalance and become grounded
- It leads to creative thinking
- It fuels self-care and love
- It can benefit your physical and mental health
- It boosts your mood, well-being and happiness
- It helps you appreciate the value of small things
- It’s fun
Sometimes when you are putting around with not goal you actually accomplish a bunch of little things that you put off or ignore or don’t bother with. And sometimes puttering around is just that. Doing nothing in particular with no goal in mind.
The most important thing about puttering is the fact that the mind isn’t in control or thinking. It is completely at rest, shedding any stress, unkind thoughts, pressuring you into doing something.
Puttering isn’t something you plan it is something that just kind of happens. So when it happens let it happen. Don’t try to stop yourself. Let it run its course.
The state of puttering is actually a state of meditation. So the next time you start to putter around and your mind wants to stop you tell yourself you are meditating.
So putter around today. And see where it leads you. It may just be the most productive thing you do today. And it will definitely improve your well-being.
