The shock of doing nothing | Andrew Holecek · Big Think
视频探讨了‘无事’带来的内心震撼，分析现代人沉迷分心的现象，以及在黑暗中静止对自我认知的深刻影响。适合练习专注力、自我觉察和内心探索。
We're addicted to distraction, we're light junkies, just look at your life experience, look at the impulsivity.
我们沉迷于各种分散注意力的事物，简直就是“注意力分散的瘾君子”；只要看看你的生活经历，就会发现其中充满了冲动行为。
Every time you reach for your phone, like how many times a day does that happen,
每次你都想拿起手机……一天里，这种情况到底会发生多少次呢？
your tablet, your email, look underneath it, what are you feeling?
你的平板电脑、你的电子邮件……看看它们的底部，你有什么感受？
You're going to find a contraction.
你会发现一个缩写形式（即单词的简化形式）。
We feel this deficient sense of emptiness, we feel that something's missing,
我们感受到这种空虚感，觉得似乎缺少了什么。
consumers and is born of this, right?
消费者正是由此产生的，对吧？
I want this, I want that, I want, I want, I want.
我想要这个，我想要那个，我想要……我想要很多东西。
We're so pulled apart from who we are, we've lost touch.
我们与真实的自己越来越疏远，已经失去了联系。
Who you think you are is defined by what you do, who you really are is revealed when you finally stop doing.
你自认为是什么样的人，是由你的行为所决定的；而你真正的本质，只有当你终于停止那些行为时，才会显现出来。
The very structure of the self is radically threatened when you step into the dark.
当你踏入黑暗之中时，自我的本质结构便会受到根本性的威胁。
Dark retreat is like a cold plunge,
这个阴暗、隐蔽的地方就像是一股突如其来的寒流（让人感到极度不适）。
you're entering as close as one can get to a complete sensory deprivation chamber.
你所进入的环境几乎可以被视为一个“完全剥夺感官体验的封闭空间”（即一个能够完全阻断所有感官刺激的环境）。
The amazing thing about darkness is the shock comes from the shock of doing nothing.
关于黑暗的奇妙之处在于：人们之所以感到震惊，其实是因为他们选择了什么都不做（即选择无所作为）。
At first it can be intensely boring and
一开始，这可能会让人感到极其无聊……
that's the painful part, I can't do this, I can't distract, I can't move in the normal ways.
这就是最痛苦的地方：我无法做到这些（比如分散注意力、以正常的方式行动等等）。
About 90 % of people when they hit the dark,
大约90%的人在天黑后……
they contract.
它们会发生收缩（或变形）。
Fight, flight, freeze or fawn response.
战斗、逃跑、僵住或讨好”（Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn）反应机制是人类及许多动物面对威胁时本能产生的应对策略。
But the more time you spend in there, what a surprise, the more you become familiar with the darkness.
但你在那里待的时间越长，你就会发现一个惊人的事实：你对黑暗的熟悉程度会越来越高。
You relax, you slow down, you surrender and
你放松下来，放慢脚步，顺其自然……
then the mind starts to fall into itself.
然后，思绪开始陷入自我之中（即开始陷入内心的混乱或沉思）。
In the dark, mind becomes reality because there's nothing else.
在黑暗中，思维变成了现实——因为除此之外别无他物。
You first fall in, this is the dimension of the unconscious mind.
你首先会坠入这个维度——那就是潜意识的世界。
We're all like to say all those spiders and snakes hang out.
我们都喜欢说那些蜘蛛和蛇经常在一起出没。
You receive all this undigested, unprocessed, unmatabolized psychic material,
你接收到的所有这些信息都是未经消化、未经处理、也未被身体代谢的“心理能量”（或称“灵性信息”）。
reflections from childhood experiences,
对童年经历的反思……
it's going to come up.
这个问题迟早会被人提出来的。
To be in fact digested and metabolized in the dark.
实际上，这些物质需要在“黑暗”的环境中（即没有光照的情况下）被消化和代谢。
You start to see in the most exquisite and actually painful ways,
你开始以最为精致（同时也是最为痛苦的方式）来认识到这一点。
I am not this, I'm not that.
我既不是这个，也不是那个。
You're basically opening the walls, expanding the walls of your perception box.
你实际上是在“打破”那些限制，拓宽自己的认知边界（也就是扩大自己“感知盒子”的范围）。
But eventually you're going to drop even below that.
但最终，你的成绩甚至会低于那个水平。
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所有
the way down to the primordial contraction.
从那时起，宇宙就一直朝着“原始收缩”的方向演化。
The primordial contraction feels like me.
那种原始的、剧烈的收缩感……就仿佛发生在我自己身上一样。
It feels like the very sense of self, the very thing that I take as a given.
这种自我意识，这种我原本视为理所当然的东西……仿佛正在逐渐消失。
That's the primordial contraction.
这就是最初的收缩现象。
And then why?
那么，为什么呢？
You're going to open it.
你将会打开它。
And that's where the gold took place.
就在那里，发现了那些黄金。