It’s only 1 in the afternoon but my day has already been so incredible. Lately I’ve started practicing stillness, and I find I’m doing it mainly because I enjoy the feeling so much – it takes me a while, maybe five minutes or so, but then it comes, that sense of expansion that takes me deep within. And it really is so beautiful.
This morning I signed into Facebook, something which I don’t do very often – and I discovered my friend Helena online! It was so much fun chatting with her. We go back a long long way, and now it feels like she’s not far away at all, even though physically she’s half the world away. Her evenings are my mornings. Thank goodness she’s a night owl!
I intend to make room for more stillness tonight … and so my practice goes. Meditation has always been challenging for me, but stillness is not. I’m not sure why, except that maybe it just comes down to semantics for me. Maybe I have a lot of “stuff” tied up with the notion of meditation, stuff that doesn’t come up in stillness, because I know the stillness is always there, I haven’t lost it, I always have it. It’s just a matter of being aware of it.
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16/04/2009 at 6:50 pm Permalink
Focus and stillness is something I’ve been positively yearning for lately! My mind’s been going full speed a head, non-stop, every which way. When I intentionally quiet my thoughts, they just start up again and I have to purposefully let them go. And then they come back. Any pointers?
16/04/2009 at 8:59 pm Permalink
Sorry that I don’t have time to write much (and I’ll have to read this post after dinner)… but… I wanted to tell you that I love seeing your posts. Seriously. I get happy each time. Hope your week is going well. ~Sara
16/04/2009 at 9:49 pm Permalink
Starlene, that’s one of the reasons I’m doing much better with the idea of “stillness” rather than meditation. In stillness, I can observe my thoughts, without giving myself to them, and I find that when I do this, the thoughts slow down – it’s like they can’t go full-tilt if I don’t give myself to them. And it’s okay that thoughts come – I don’t let them go, I just observe them and let them be. I just take deep breaths and go deeper into stillness each time.
Sara Mo, that is so sweet! hope your week is going well too.