Here's a link to a good short article that compares "doing" versus "being."
Here's a summary of key ideas:
Qualities of “Doing” Mode
- Awareness of how things “are” and how they “should” be
- Goal-oriented efforts to “fix” things
- Increasingly harder efforts towards reaching my goals
- Most actions tend to happen automatically
- Lack of conscious awareness in the present moment
Qualities of “Being” Mode
- Connection with the present moment (= "being present")
- Acknowledgement of how things are in the moment
- Willingness to allow things to be just as they are… no efforts to alter/change experience
- Openness and acceptance of pleasant, neutral, and negative emotional states
- Calmness, stillness, and a sense of being centered
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