STILLNESS

31/12/2017

STILLNESS . . . Turning my focus inwards, connecting to my breath and to ‘me’, became the beginning of an intimate and beautiful relationship with myself.

Our conversation topic for this month is continuing to explore STILLNESS and what effect, if any, it can have on our bodies. Our focus articles for this month are Reaction, Anxiousness or Stillness and Building an Intimate Relationship with Myself.

These articles pose two questions for our readers to explore and comment on in the Join a Conversation.

Q: Is it possible to develop an intimate relationship with one’s self by surrendering, to a deeper depth, to the feeling of stillness, tenderness and delicateness within our body?

Q: Is it possible that when we choose gentleness and stillness over rushing and the busyness of our lives that our body reflects this choice in both our health and well-being?

We invite our readers to join in with our conversation topic and share with us all what stillness means to you in answer to the questions we have posed. Can surrendering to stillness lead to a more intimate relationship with your self and can it contribute positively to our health and well-being?

Let the conversations continue . . .

2 Comments

Carmel Reid

1/1/2018 08:43:28 pm

Hospitals in particular are not places stillness even though that is what would help many patients to recover. There is constant activity of nurses, cleaners, food trolleys, doctors on rounds, and wardies in their many supporting roles. Recently visiting my partner in hospital I was able to observe all this at first hand. Not only that, I was myself experiencing anxiousness about my partner's health and often found myself feeling drained at the end of the day with everything that had been going on. Reconnecting with my inner stillness was a great help, it enabled me to observe more and absorb less.

Ruth Anderssen

17/2/2018 04:23:28 pm

Carmel, I thoroughly understand your description of the busyness and constant movement in hospital wards as I am a volunteer who visits the patients on a weekly basis. I love the opportunity to give the patients a hand and arm massage as the stillness they drop into is quite palpable - their body relaxes, they close their eyes and their breathing becomes gentler and more rhythmical -- so different from the tenseness they are in when I first arrive by their bedside. It is my stillness that they feel first and then the hand massage is the confirming of this stillness can be achieved, even in the busyness of a hospital ward, IF ONE ALLOWS THEIR BODY TO FEEL INTO STILLNESS.

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