We need nothing. We need more awareness of the nothing that is within and without.

Try this. Just sit. Don't be meditating, or thinking, or reflecting. Don't be doing nothing in order to improve, alter, transform, relax, unwind or any of the other verbs with which we fascinate ourselves.

Just do nothing. With no motivation other than the nothing itself.

Then, the next time someone asks what you've been up to, what you've been doing, say honestly "Nothing."

If you say this one word with a straight face, with honesty and sincerity, your friend will likely show some discomfort, bending their body in some way, or grimacing with their face.

Stay still. Wait. It will happen again.

Yes, no, really, what have you been up to?

Your friend expects a fix, a stroke, a new element or old language and gets, instead, the same response
"Nothing."

Straight-faced, sincere you stands in the same unsmiling energy, simply stating a truth, "Nothing" in response.

Likely your friend will grow more uncomfortable.

As you try this and experiment with exactly how to speak the Nothing, notice people's profound dis-ease with nothing.

We all have it, as much of it as we want, yet everyone seems slightly afraid of it.

Anything we are all afraid of, or made uncomfortable about warrants exploration. Try it. And for yourself, make a habit of it. Just do nothing. It is the best political, spiritual, psychologically, physically, environmentally healthy thing you can do, is to do
Nothing.