Step 9. Stretch. Open your eyes. Smile. Stretch. Thank yourself for this gift of a few minutes peace. You deserve it. You just took 2 percent of your day for you. When you take quiet time every day, you may not even realize that you achieved a few moments of stillness. "Because it is nothingness, it is impossible for a human to notice," advises Blake. "They can be nanoseconds in duration. Rest assured that many times during the exercise you regressed to nothingness, and new neural networks were fired up.