Can you do something without doing it?
“[…] It’s important that in the process you bring some playfulness, some relaxation, some deep choice — I want to do this.”
There are multiple ways to do something, especially something you don’t want to do.
You can muster up discipline and power through the activity with a certain attitude of tension.
You can evoke the dopaminergic nature of motivation to carry you through the task, maybe playing some music or watching something motivating.
You can allow the activity to start itself through will—which is not doing nor not doing—a certain quality that is not developed or improved, but that is always present and ready to be noticed.
Will, which is not willpower, has a certain quiet and honest quality to it. Maybe that’s why it goes unnoticed despite its always being there. When leveraged, will can make any experience more pleasant than expected.
This is important to know and experience. You can do anything through will, and it carries with it transformation.