Finding Stillness

Check your phone — you have one unread message.

Also two unread emails and three voicemails…

It’s 9am on a Saturday.

Ever wonder when you will have a minute of silence for once.

To be able to catch your breath for a second to process everything.

What you seek my friend, is relaxation, specifically in the form of stillness.

Here is how.

See it is from the mind that the rest of the body can begin to slow down and flow seamlessly.

The common look of a monk meditating is not far off, since the concept is to induce stillness in the mind to trigger a still state of the body.

Though it may be difficult to initially do, with consistency and belief the practice will have a profound impact on your headspace.

A good start, begins with being comfortable with ourselves — yes comfortable.

Why? Because we want to focus our attention on the mind and not on anything else of distraction.

Find that nice chair, yoga mat, or tree that you sit under where you feel at most at ease.

Being at ease in itself is a mental acceptance we must consciously make.

The act suggests we are open to listening to ourselves over noise of the external world.

Allow your body to settle into a position that supports itself naturally. Find a position where you are supporting yourself naturally to exercise balance in the body.

These small things add up over time, when we combine all techniques to find depth within ourselves, you will find hidden secrets that the body has been capable of.

Seek what feels good, always.

By entering an easy comfortable position notice how your breathing changes.

Breath is so important.

If the kite is the mind, then breath is the wind that can move and help elevate the mind to where it needs to go.

Focus on the breath.

Allow it to feel long and slow.

You will notice that just from breathing that you feel a sense of pleasure.

Your broader awareness of self is becoming hyper attuned. You notice increased range in your senses.

The breath now swells in waves up and down the body creating a hypnotic rhythm.

Your eyes are closed as the mind is allowed to play freely on thoughts that it chooses.

The outside world does not matter because from inside there is another world that is more vast & beautiful.

Allow the breath to flow in through your nose and out of your mouth to allow a deeper cycle of breath [a classical technique in all yoga & meditation] and you will find that the hypnotic waves are grounded to a mystical force of the present.

Your presence to be exact.

You will experience sensation, feeling & creative freedom in the moment — embrace it.

At times your mind can go on tangents that cause dissatisfaction… so please make a decision to be strong enough to reject them.

Though they may only be thoughts, they carry weight into the material world.

Filter and allow only thoughts of the present to take hold.

Placing your center of focus on your breath is wonderfully helpful.

Realize that you are reaching deeper to stir within new found sensations and thoughts.

Insights & wisdom buried far inside that perhaps you were meant to unite with.

The sense of stillness is an escape from the constant motion our outer world feels like.

We are so used to the motion of action that many of us never really stop to reflect on the actual activities we do.

If they truly benefit our goals, purpose or ourselves at a meaningful level.

Stillness & the act of acknowledging its power is taking back our attention inwards.

It is finding the complete answer to all our questions from taking a minute to just stop and look.

Look within.

“Activity conquers cold, but stillness conquers heat.” ~Lao Tzu