The Profound Practice of Stillness

Being Still

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THE PRACTICE OF STILLNESS

By

Kristi Nimmo

Stillness of body. This can be practiced. Let us contend which you lay for your imagining as well as you have been fidgeting, you have been relocating around. We know which this is not stillness. This is an agitation, maybe an anxiety, might be a insurgency to finding which place within you of peace.

And a single competence say, Well, Ill come behind to this later when you feel some-more rested, when you have less stress as well as less movement in my body, afterwards Ill come behind to this. How do you not give up when you encounter insurgency to still body? By apropos still.

How does a single become still in physique when you lay for meditation, generally if agitated? Some people indicate upright posture. Perhaps you have been resolutely rooted in a yogic position. But you can only as easily be seated in a chair. At this point, you do want a little comfort. If your physique is painful as well as straining which is where your concentration will be. So find a in front of which is easy to sit, easy to stand. It might assistance to take a few, low breaths. Just give yourself up to stillness. Trust which calm is inseparable from you. If this is formidable for you, afterwards find ! a little place in your physique which is still. Perhaps, your big toe is not moving, might be your ear does not move, your nose. Put your courtesy there. On your ear, a calm of a earthy form of a ear. Just a feeling of a calm of a ear, no visualizations, no thoughts about it, only feeling it.

Then maybe youll find a little other place in your physique which is still. Maybe it is your ankle. Become still with a stillness. Become unmoving, gradually, or, all during once. And only be with a stillness. It might take practice. But it is a good practice, this calm of a earthy form, a sensing of it, apropos familiar with it, as well as a calm of thought as well as a physique of energy.

A person competence say, This is easy to do when Im home alone, though you cant do this anywhere else. Theres all this noise around me, as well as each time you lay to meditate here comes a mower of a single of my neighbors, as well as all you do is listen to a mowing. This is an event for you to use bringing your courtesy from outside to within. To designate this, to feel it, you can place your palm to which which your mind is calling a distraction, as well as afterwards turn a palm towards yourself, to you who is distracted. And feel a calm in your hand, a calm being brought behind in to you: a calm of your self, your middle self. You might consider of a mill in a field.

Stones have been still. The earth might shake when a heavy car goes over it. Theres a pebble, as well as a pebble moves ever so slightly, a shake goes upon around it, causing a pebble to crop up to be in an excited state. The car is distant divided now, as well as a shake ceases as well as a mill appears again as before: still, silent. Its outward coming is of a inner. But all along it was still.

A mill is still in your hand. Even if you toss a mill in to a air as well as you see a mill go up as well as fall, it is yet still. So even if a mower arrives, a write rings, you use stillness.

Practice calm as a idle body. And begin t! o commen d as well as feel a stillness, even if you should shift a physique slightly. The calm remains. So you have been turning a courtesy to a stillness. And if you clarity restlessness it helps us to turn a courtesy to this hint of stillness.

If you have been agitated as well as you do not have trust in a calm being inseparable from you, afterwards go again to a earthy form. Put your courtesy upon a part of you which is not moving, a single small partan ear, a fingerand concentration upon a calm until you have been able to move your courtesy to calm some-more so than agitation, so which you have been being a stillness, not a agitation. It is a practice.

With practice, eventually, you do not have to be quiescent in physique in sequence to feel a pacific clarity of stillness.

When you lay still or mount still in meditation, a blood continues a flow, a breath continues a flow. Being physically still is not a cessation of movement. The sensations of calm arouse in us clear meaningful when there is something in us facing unbound movement, so clarity your restlessness from a middle space of calm as well as see either or not your restlessness weakens or succumbs.

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