Alison Curtis: The joy of doing absolutely nothing

I really feel the benefit of sitting in absolute quiet, for a short while myself. It is like wiping the slate clean and setting restart on your brain.

Recently I had a moment whereby I was trying to make a lunch, read an email, there was a knock on the door and my daughter Joan was calling me from another room, all at the same time. I literally pressed paused and didn’t do anything for what felt like a really long time but in reality, it was probably only 10 seconds.

But in those 10 seconds, I had a million thoughts and one of those was just wait. Nothing bad will happen if at that exactly moment none of the four things mentioned above get my attention.