STILLNESS

30/11/2017

STILLNESS . . . is there a deeper depth to feeling the stillness within then just stopping for a moment to recover from our busyness? This month our Conversation Topic is presenting us with the opportunity to explore how important it is for us to really feel into, and connect more deeply with, our inner being. As our feature article on Stillness tells us: ‘Stillness offers spaciousness. In that space I become aware of the beauty in harmony. I know that harmony creates a true foundation from which to live and breathe and any disharmony may affect this. In our busy-ness we can lose that sense of harmony.’

How many of us are as Jane expresses it: "I am aware too that embracing stillness is not always my way and that like Christopher Robin I say 'Busy, back soon' to stillness, allowing the human-being to be over-ridden by the human-doing'?

We invite our readers to join in with our conversation topic and share with us all what stillness means to you and, if you have gone into that deeper connection and feeling of stillness in your body, we would all love to read of your experiences.

Let the conversations begin . . .

10 Comments

Bernadette Curtin link

5/12/2017 03:11:23 pm

I really enjoyed reading Dr Jane Barker's article about the platypus and stillness. I am gaining a deeper understanding of what stillness feels like in my body and my day to day activities, and how it is a foundation that supports clarity and harmony.

Anne McRitchie

6/12/2017 12:31:21 pm

I am with you Bernadette. It is surprising how one short article about an animal that is often looked for but rarely seen, can remind us of the stillness we can all connect to but rarely do. Maybe we all need more platypuses in our lives until we develop our own platform of stillness that supports so many qualities including as you say, clarity and harmony. May I also add purpose, focus, awareness and love.

Ingrid Langenbruch link

5/12/2017 08:19:35 pm

I love being still and yet why do I go there so rarely?
When I am in stillnes I am with myslef, deeply connected to my body, my soul, God, the All, whatever you want to call it. It feels real. When I am 'so busy' I distract myself from myself and really miss out. That does not mean that I can't do somethng when I am still. The more I connect to my self, my body, my Soul, the more I can bring that stillness into my movements when I am 'doing'. And that is a wonderful way to 'be'.

Deidre Medbury

27/12/2017 08:30:52 am

Being in nature gives us a beautiful opportunity to feel and appreciate stillness. And coming to realise that I can connect with that same quality of stillness within myself has been a true gift and for me there is nothing more wonderful than the feeling of stillness within. I feel in harmony and at one with everything and it is impossible to feel alone. Time seems to expand, space opens up and there is more purpose and grace in my movements.

Sandra Newland

16/2/2018 11:25:14 am

I used to think that I needed to be in the bush or by the sea in order to feel still, as if it was the place that made me still. But now I know that nature is just reflecting back to me the stillness that is always within me and so I no longer am attached to where I am and can find that stillness even in the midst of a busy shopping centre. As you say Deidre, 'Time seems to expand, space opens up and there is more purpose and grace in my movements'.

Susan Lee link

4/1/2018 03:44:31 am

Nature has always inspired me to stop and become one with it's magic - I love the simplicity and the harmonious way it supports the whole. It speaks to a place deep within and opens up the possibility of being at one with myself - and connect to that place within where stillness resides undisturbed by the outside world, forever waiting for me to connect and surrender.

Joan Calder

5/1/2018 01:37:21 am

I love what is mentioned in the introduction above -- "a deeper depth". At first reading that seems like a repetition of the same thing, but on pondering it I find that it is my own experience! There are moments when I feel the stillness within me deeply, and then there is another moment when the appreciation of that feeling and ability to stay with it for more than just a moment deepens to a deeper depth. It is infinite, the stillness, there is no end to the deepening, it is the gateway to the Universe. To know that we carry this quality within us if we choose is surely something we can share with others, for in that stillness we are all one.

Susan Lee link

6/2/2018 06:14:25 pm

Space allows us to feel our inner stillness and expands our perceptions of life - as I open myself and my body up to the options and possibilities I am allowing the Universe to correspond with me and my body.

Sandra Newland

16/2/2018 11:24:22 am

When my kids were playing up I could see that it was because I was living on the circumference of myself rather than being in the centre of me and therefore I was caught in the busy-ness of living rather than flowing with the harmony of life. As soon as I dropped back into that sense of stillness I would command an authority that just knew what to do and the kids would come back to their centre too and harmony was restored. Stillness brings such a sense of ease and expansiveness and from that place I could meet my children as equals, rather than as the parent, and then their innate intelligence was allowed to blossom and they could be their true selves rather than reacting to the picture of how I wanted them to behave.

Susan Lee link

16/2/2018 07:07:02 pm

Your words really resonated in my body Sandra - and I can feel that however old my children may now be, there is always an opportunity to reflect stillness and the holding love that this brings, and this blessing forever expanding and evolving.

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