For a very long time, I was unwilling to stop long enough to have ever discovered stillness.
Stillness is the antithesis of how and what I felt as a child. As babies, we are born with a natural connection to our inner flow and stillness, and it is only through imposition that this can be changed. When our surrounding energy is one of ‘doing’ rather than ‘being’, we will pick up on this and may choose to enjoin the overriding force that comes with doing, where we have lost all sense of connection to God and our innate essence.
From this point onwards, life generally becomes a gradual force of doing and driving ourselves forward to fit in with the surrounding world that is reflecting to us anything other than who we truly are.
What exactly is stillness – is it simply a word that describes no physical movement, or could there possibly be another deeper meaning? Have we ever stopped the continual momentum that seems to run our body at a pace that is so intense, to feel this, and then consider that there may be another way to live life? This may be a feeling that possibly resonates within us as we begin to feel beneath the outer layers that we have built up to protect ourselves and to realise that there is a depth of wisdom that pulses through our body.
By opening up to this possibility, I was offered a space where I could connect to my body and feel within that there could be more than I had first perceived. I was able to feel there were flows of energy and that these changed according to the movements of my body. If I moved with gentleness, my body was more settled, and if I moved in a way that was harsh, my body would feel aggravated and uneasy. Could this stillness possibly be something that was already within – as subtle as the tiny movements that take place in our body all the time as we breathe or our brain sends out a message?
How would it be if we were to be born into a family where everything was about stillness and being – would this not allow us the freedom to gradually grow and mature into a fully rounded person who is in connection both with themselves and equally with those around us? Wouldn’t this allow a flow where we were all working as one, rather than a force where competition has become the only way to survive in a ‘dog eat dog’ kind of world that has dominated and diverted us for far too long?
We all innately know the truth of who we are and how we should be truly living in a way of harmony, cohesion, integrity, and love – but for most human beings the problem is to know how to change this when we have for so long looked outside of ourselves for confirmation.
Having lived and played the game of survival and struggle for so long, it can often feel like a seemingly impossible task to do this on our own. We all need support and a reflection to inspire us, but where do we find this when so much of the world appears to be in the same struggle and stress?
For me, the support came when I was willing to open up and change. ‘The teacher appeared’: I was introduced to the books of Serge Benhayon where I found inspiration, and as a consequence, I have been encouraged to look deep within to find the answers to what had always seemed like an impossible conundrum. When we open ourselves up to that first chink of light, we are expanding our Universe as we allow the light to flow in and lighten our day.
As the cycles of life unfold, we return to the beginning to start life anew and begin to sow the seed of stillness as we return to the In-breath and Out-breath of God. When I gently breathe in and out through my nose and in connection with the whole pulse of my body, it feels as though I am gently returning to a rhythm that brings harmony and a feeling of at-one-ness both within and to the space that surrounds me.
In the words of Serge Benhayon:
“We all came from a single Out-breath and we will all return back to our source by a single In-breath.” (1)
As I connect more and more to breathing my own breath, I receive a blessing as my whole body opens up and expands and this brings a deep healing, one that each of us can equally access. The problems and the tension are allowed to dissipate when we allow space for our body to be free of the contraction that takes place as we tense up our bodies to ‘cope’ with our daily workload.
As I read these words by Serge Benhayon, they come with a simplicity and clarity that allows me to feel a settlement and a steadiness in my body – a true home where I can rest awhile and connect again and allow the ravages of time to slip away as I feel the expansion and the space that is offered.
The support that this can bring is something that can impact on our daily life as we build a steadiness and begin to feel that there is a stillness residing deep within.
As we begin anew we can feel that we are being offered a moment of unmoving movement and a deep stillness that is in vibration with the Universe and beyond, and further volumes of this impulse that come directly from heaven take us further along our path to feel the eternity that is God and beyond.
We have for oh so many years been searching for this intangible moment and looking outside of ourselves for something akin to the ‘Holy Grail’.
“It may be that what is made legend is not material at all but a source and or style of livingness: a way to move that aligns your physical particles so as to receive the wisdom of God.” (2)
Throughout my life, I knew that there was a greater meaning to what had become an existence and because I had made my life so complicated, I could not see that something as simple as stillness could possibly hold the answer.
It feels like we are continually searching for the ‘Holy Grail’ without having an inkling of what this could possibly be. To have an infinite relationship with God is beyond our comprehension when we have sought to live life ‘our way’ – a way that is hard and full of tension as we have an inner fight and turmoil continually playing out.
When we meet what feels like an impossible block, this may offer us a moment to reflect and become open to changing what has seemed like the treadmill of life. When we make the decision to get off the treadmill, it can be the moment when we begin to return back to the stillness that is God’s holding Love, where we can realign to our “physical particles so as to receive the wisdom of God.” (2)
By Susan Lee. Now in my seventies, I am enjoying deepening my relationship with myself and my body. I am also appreciating that life is a continuum and that we are forever evolving and enriching. Norfolk, UK.
References:
- Serge Benhayon, Esoteric Teachings & Revelations, Volume 11, Ed. 1, 45.
- Serge Benhayon, Time, Space and all of us, Book 3 – all of us, Ed.1, p. 415.
Further reading:
Thank God for Serge Benhayon – no longer living a comfortable life
Appreciating the stillness within and sound around me
Who or What is God?
Words on Serge Benhayon 
Thank you Susan, as you have shared stillness and or repose is amazing to take to our day so that every movement is also done in the same repose-full energy and thus opens the door to our evolution because of how we are aligned to divine energy in our movements to the best of our ability.
When we move in harmony with God we are at one with his Atma and holding space and the expanse of this holding is a mutual vibration that is to be shared by each other being, all encompassing and inclusive of all.
Still-ness has become the new norm as we all can reconnect back to our childhood way of breathing and thus the ensuing deep settlement in our bodies or being Still while being in motion.
So true Greg – nothing can take away the innate stillness that is within.
We are all searching for something for many they do not have the words to describe what they are looking for but the whole world is restless. Something within us all is waking up. We can sense a different movement or vibration which means that we have not lost our senses completely. Quite how this is going to play out remains to been seen, however it’s already noticeable how people are fighting their awareness by going into mental health issues and others are waking up to the realisation that their freedom is being eroded by those who seek power to dominate and control through an Orwellian dictatorship.
As we move deeper into our innermost we find that the words are still there in our movements waiting to be awakened.
❤ Thank you Susan, as our every movement is what advances us so they are supper important, so the way we move can align us to the wisdom of God and seeing stillness is a True-movement, thus how we move is imperative for our awareness and evolution back to the Stillness, Joy, Harmony, Love and Truth we all come from.
Stepping off the treadmill and allowing ourselves to re-connect to God and His impulsed movements is a work in progress. One can understand that in the head, but to live this is a whole new experience…hence why I call it a work in progress for myself at least.
That’s beautiful Henrietta – and now looking back over the past few months I can feel that the unfolding of the stillness is going so much deeper and into the true depth of where we belong……….
Even when we step off the treadmill of life the movements made on the treadmill are encased in the muscle memory of our bodies, so then the question is how do we then move in a way that enables our bodies to be de configured so that the muscles can realign back to their natural status?
https://www.movefit-online.com these series of movement can re-align our bodies so that they are able to once again flow in that magical way they once did when we were kids.
Our breath and its quality is a great place to start when it comes to re-connecting back to our essence.
Stillness is commonly mis-interpreted at not moving or a lack of movement. But as presented in this blog, perhaps this has been a very smart way to deviate away from its true meaning and the quality of movement that it actually holds.
“Stillness is the antithesis of how and what I felt” and as we all had to relearn to fit in and thus disconnect from our inner-wisdom, or inner-most and returning to this inner-being where our deep Stillness resides is such a Joy.
As we restart to deepen back into the Stillness we had before we disconnected from it and take that Stillness to bed each night and thus allowing the quality of repose-full sleep to also deepen then this awareness of our inner-most or inner-temple can also expand so what is expanded within the day can also then expand at night delivering a forever deepening level of Stillness. So the Joy that we awaken with each day is moved allowing the Stillness to also be felt as we move, so is it any wonder as a young child the effervescent Joy-full-ness is refreshingly abundant and sometimes not so easily shut down and is such a reawakening delight to reconnect to.
For all of my life I have been in the energy of constant motion, even my sleep was disturbed by the anxiousness that was running my body so that I woke up in the mornings as tired as I went to bed. But it wasn’t something I stopped to consider. Recently I was with a group of people and I could feel the level of stillness in my body just dropping away and more and more I can hold that level of stillness in my body as I walk. I am becoming sensitive enough with my body that when I feel a change to the stillness, I stop and bring myself back because I adore the stillness so much I cannot abide not being within it.
‘As babies, we are born with a natural connection to our inner flow and stillness’ that’s why we recognize very well this quality in those who live in harmony with their body and its cycles.
In my experience, no matter how disconnected I was from my inner connection, once I met Serge Benhayon and his family for the very first time I knew there was something familiar in them, yet felt very new to me as I couldn’t find it in many people before. This stillness reflected back to me made me remember my true nature as a woman.
Our body loves being in stillness, and has a precious way of showing us its gratitude, opening up and expanding.
We have been taught from a very young age to ignore what our bodies are communicating with us to go against this innateness and instead focus on life outside of us; which takes us away from our bodies into the ‘doing’. This world is all about ‘doing’ life, to me is a complete set up so that we take our focus away from our bodies. What you have shared Susan is if we can deeply connect to our own breath then we have the possibility of returning inwards back to where we belong before we were pulled out as children. Writing this I realise this is a profound way of being that if we all adopted would change our lives completely.
We all have a relationship with Stillness, even if it’s an estranged one. It is certainly worth having an active, interactive, learning, evolving relationship with Stillness.
I love this blog because it reminds us we have a relationship with everything in life … something we seem to forget!
I have read the title to this blog many times and every time I read ‘A relationship with stillness’, I feel myself go inwards and get a felt sense of love and intimacy in my body. Words are not a collection of flat letters on the page they are the aliveness of energy, their meaning can be felt in the body.
I agree Alexis – to connect to the essence of a word brings in a whole new dimension – one that is beyond our everyday functionality and allows us to open up to something that is grand and so much more alive – it is something that is at the very core of our being……….
” To connect to the essence of a word brings in a whole new dimension”, it really does Susan which is why I struggle so much when someone swears because it’s not just the vibration of the word that’s offensive to the body but often the energy in which the word is used as well. It’s a double slap.
Mastering Stillness takes the race out of being human.
I have spent a large portion of this life and possibly may other lives in motion. Waiting patiently, chopping at the bit whist I was a child ready to run because I had been told you can’t do X till you’re an adult. It was like the start of a horse race where the bell rings and the gates slam open and I was off and running! Caffeine with sugar and nicotine were my mainstay to keep running unabated for many years. There was a short period I tried the body version of what nitro-oxide fuelled gas does to a car. Stillness is great when we rediscover something we have never lost. Speeding through life, racing time is a game that can never be won. Stillness creates space, where time doesn’t exist.
Spoken as a True master of Stillness, and we can all learn from what you have shared Steve! And if we do learn we would not hear the bell at the start of the race because for us it would not exist and thus stillness would be natural in all we do.
I adore how you have described stillness Steve
‘Stillness creates space, where time doesn’t exist.’
I have found the Esoteric Yoga introduced by Sege Benhayon is a modality that supports us to create that space in our bodies so that we can reconnect back to the stillness/ space that is there waiting for us to return to as this is the essence of who we are.
Wow, Steve, I love this sharing: “Speeding through life, racing time is a game that can never be won. Stillness creates space, where time doesn’t exist.”
Steve you have just exposed the lie we have all fallen for ‘time’ we have made life all about time when actually it is all about space. The lie is so ingrained and insidious that most people would question space over time, is it possible that because humans created time we have an investment in it?
That certainly feels very true Mary – we humans are so devious and it feels very probable that we do have an investment in time……and even a contract to keep the whole thing going round and round in circles ‘wasting even more time’!
It’s interesting that when you talk to people most have a sense that there is more to life and that there is something they are missing, even if they have everything they could ever need, there is still something missing. The stillness brings us back to something we once knew as being our normal.
Our relationship with stillness is our relationship with love, which is also our relationship with God.
We spend a lifetime filling our stillness with every type of motion to avoid the stillness of repose. I have found that stepping out of the madness that we have learned to call normal life, that stillness patiently awaits our return.
Once again wise words Steve, and the sense I get is that though the stillness is there waiting patiently, there is yet the art of embracing it and living it that also awaits.
Our relationship with stillness can be non existent, an on again off again kind of an affair or an almost constant communication. My relationship with stillness is becoming more and more intimate, I truly adore it.
Alexis I feel there is a communication with space, I feel as we develop a relationship with space we are offered a deeper quality, in that offering I know I hesitate asking myself can I really hold and have this much space in my body am I worth it? The answer is yes we are all worth reconnecting, receiving and enjoying stillness within our bodies and the key word is the joy that is felt as our bodies reignite again with the space that is offered and accepted.
Not being worthy is a completely made up state, one of an infinite number of totally fabricated ways of being that our spirits love to indulge in. And indulge in them they do.
The activity of stillness should never be underrated as the greater awareness we have of the profound effect living and moving in a stilling way has on our whole body the more energising effect this has on every thing we do.
The body of stillness is always there, always and forever there, my word I love stillness.
The title of this blog reminds me of just how many relationships we have with things without even realising it!!! Cycles, sleep, our body, expression the list is endless when we have more awareness of this, how we are in life (our livingness) so much can be brought to light and to our attention for addressing.
We are all in constant relationship with everything and that’s a fact.
Beautiful blog, Susan. All what you say make sense, I understand it, but the most exquisite feeling is that in the end of the reading I feel more stilled than in the beginning. Thanks
“In that final surrender we will begin to live the glory that is our natural heritage and where harmony reigns”, my word that’s beautiful Susan.
Yes Susan this quality of stillness is not a state of no movement but a totally different quality we can live life with. So much focus on alternative lifestyle these days but very few of us it seems ready to consider, there may be a different way to live. I know myself the pull of the familiar can stop us from honouring what we all know inside.
“I know myself the pull of the familiar can stop us from honouring what we all know inside.”
we can get caught in the ‘rut’ of life that seems so comfortable why get out of it?
This is the huge lie we fall for that we are given everything we could possibly desire as long as we do not reconnect back to our inner self and the stillness this brings.
Does driving on the motorway gives us a barometer of stillness around us? There are timid divers in the slow lane. Those that slide into the middle lanes and go with the flow. The fast lane drivers that see stillness as something that is in the way of their motion.
The world of stress we create for ourselves is often born from complication, dishonouring ourselves, and pushing our body and being to the limit because of ideals and beliefs we hold. And as you say Susan, we also have no reflection of another way. The inner stillness could almost feel too simple compared to the complexity of the many patterns we have that bring about stress, yet it’s actually leaving our inner stillness that allows the patterns to take hold in the first place. I know for me that stillness is part of my innate being, not a tool or something I build, but something I reconnect back to. Once I am in it I feel how stillness holds my body, it’s not something that anything can intrude on, it’s untouched, but it’s up to me to cultivate that steadiness of connection to my stillness.
It is fascinating to have a relationship with our bodies that we can feel what is going on around us. It wasn’t something I ever stopped to consider before. So for example I can have a conversation with someone and actually feel my body tense or relax as the conversation continues not from what they are saying verbally but from their bodily vibration. I can even get this sensation when talking to someone on the telephone, our bodies vibrate which says more about us than what we verbalise.
I am coming to feel that far from being still and quiet and unobtrusive that stillness can at times feel incredibly voluminous and almost loud in it’s presence.
There is a certain time when it is snowing that you can go to listen to the flakes fall and feel the immense stillness that is as you say Alexis also voluminous in its presence that we can be filled with the stillness as a full bodied experience.
Thank you Mary and Alexis – I can feel precisely that sense of volume that can be accessed when I connect to stillness – the expansion is immeasurable and tangible. Each vibration is felt by the Universe.
At times I am able to feel the immense activity in stillness.
Life certainly feels like a treadmill at times – but it is only because by choice we are too busy running on the track to keep up, instead of stepping off and realising that this is not what we need to do. Despite knowing this I still often find myself on the treadmill and thinking it is the only way.
“We all came from a single Out-breath and we will all return back to our source by a single In-breath.” – we come from the breath of God and we return back to that source knowing that the quality that we were breathed out in has to have been one of absolute exquisite stillness. And this is what we are here to re-learn to do as well as part of expanding the universe.
In this world that we have created of constant unrest it is very reassuring to know that there is a plan and that we will all return to the back to the source of the breath of GOD.
That is an immutable fact that we seem to have forgotten as we have strayed from who we truly are.
Stillness is not vacillation! It allows space, around and in us to expand.
Absolutely Steve, “stillness” is a strength / power of our Livingness.
Stillness is an interesting way to look at so many aspects of life and when we consider how many times we go to the toilet do we sit down and go into deep repose? Then actually what are we thinking about on our walk towards the toilet before we sit down for our urination, and can our journey add to what we feel while sitting and peeing?
What if there were two rocks in a stream, one made of granite and the other made of sandstone. One is slowly eroded by all the movements around it and the other is unscathed. Is this how we enjoin the world and eventually be pulled along by the flow or we can be ourselves and stand the test of time and outside forces.
A polished act we can be, and given the space we shall feel the heavenly “flow” and the True “movements” that shall “stream” through the glorious way of living we can all equally live.
I can absolutely relate to this way of living
” Having lived and played the game of survival and struggle for so long, it can often feel like a seemingly impossible task to do this on our own. We all need support and a reflection to inspire us, but where do we find this when so much of the world appears to be in the same struggle and stress?”
There is a saying may be it is a Chinese proverb?
““When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready… The teacher will disappear.””
For thousands of people Serge Benhayon is that teacher and I know that history will show that he is in fact one of the greatest prophets to walk this earth and is so often the case unfortunately is not recognised at the time. In just the same way that those that walked before him where not recognised in their time; this however takes nothing away from the truth he represents and reflects back to humanity.
If a child is born into a family where life is about stillness and being, which brings an alignment to God, at least they have a choice and can, if they choose so, make life about evolving to greater awareness and universal wisdom.
The beautiful thing about Life is that even if a child is born into chaos and calamity they can still make life about ‘evolving to greater awareness and universal wisdom’ because evolving to greater awareness and universal wisdom is constantly being offered to us all regardless of our circumstances.
We are taught to be stoic and self sufficient by keeping others at arms length but in truth we have the support of others and we can ask for assistance when times get rough or tough. We’ve also been indoctrinated with the belief that we are weak or pathetic if we ask for support, which is another lie.
This alone tells us all we need is within ‘As I connect more and more to breathing my own breath, I receive a blessing as my whole body opens up and expands and this brings a deep healing, one that each of us can equally access.’ and just how simple it is, no complication, no cost just breathing our breath and being with this feeling all it is revealing https://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/free
One could say that the Benhayon family was the marker for what it was like to be born into a family where everything was about stillness and being. They are no longer alone. There are now thousands of families working on these to two important aspects of what life should be with the Benhayon’s setting the standard. Stillness and Being is SB.
Steve what you have written is brilliant because in a world where everything is motion we have fallen for the drive of doing rather than just being. Serge Benhayon and his family continue to live in a way that shows humanity that there is a different way to live. And for those people that now choose this way their lives are grand as they release themselves from the shackles of creation. They are the forerunners of a movement that is gathering momentum as the humanity wakes up to the fact that they are so suppressed by an unseen energy that wants to keep us all in the raciness and therefore away from the stillness which is the connection to their soul.
Stillness is a choice and comes with choosing to be with our breath as we breathe in and out – this has changed my life
Christine it is so true that stillness is a choice and recently I have felt that space and stillness are interchangeable. I have been very aware of the behaviours that I have that close down the space and so, as best as I can I have been making a choice not to do them. As simple as this sounds this basically is the way out of our individually created messes and out into the open space of truth.
The simplicity of what you have shared Alexis is our greatest blessing – space can be felt deep down when we let go of complications, which only fight to fill the space with non-sense.
It’s interesting as I can rush or fill up moments to create complications.
‘I was able to feel there were flows of energy and that these changed according to the movements of my body.’ Some time back I had an example of this that changed things for me in a big way. I was in a state worrying about something and had very hard thoughts and felt like I was spiralling out of control, and that if I continued there would be no way back or a lengthy return. You know that feeling of going into mental health. I walked into my bathroom and just stopped in the middle of the room and I just felt to change my movements to gentleness, as best as I could. The more I went into moving with gentleness the steadier my thoughts became and I felt as if I was coming back to myself. It was so simple but profound, and deeply confirming that our movements do matter and they do affect our health one way or the other. What I also noticed was that the thoughts changed to more loving in nature.
We are so powerful when we connect fully to our movements – they allow the tension to dissipate and for us to return to our essence.
What you are sharing Julie is very powerful. that our movements matter, I was driving along a road recently when I noticed a young man walking along with his head down, shoulders hunched over, it was possible to feel his disconnection to the world, I wondered to myself if he is like that as a young man, what will he be like in his 40’s or 50’s and more importantly what had happened in his life that he had withdrawn from this life at such a young age? Was I witnessing the early stages of dementia where people give up and withdraw from life. Then a few days later while walking the dog I saw a young man walking along with his head up, shoulders open, totally engaged with the world. His movements were smooth and purposeful. I had witnessed the movement of two young people one who was withdrawing from life and one fully engaged in life, it would have been fascinating to bring both of them together to share their experiences of growing up to understand how to support children to grow up in an environment that supports them to be all that they can be and that that is enough. To me to have one young person disengaged and disinterested in life is one too many, as they are our future generation.
The title of this blog stopped me in my tracks and I asked myself ‘what is my relationship with stillness?’ something I feel to explore more.
Our relationship with stillness is our relationship with God. One and the same.
Stillness is ever present, it’s just that we’re masters at bringing in commotion.
Stillness is a body of movement that’s continually expanding, it’s something that I feel very clearly that I am in a relationship with. It is a wordless intellect that is in constant communication with us all. I am in love with the sacredness of stillness.
I agree with you Alexis, I love the feeling of stillness in my body, So that I do not want to disturb the depth of what I can feel by eating something that will then race my body so that the stillness is replaced by raciness. In that raciness we lose our senses and the mind can take over and dictate to our bodies in a way that is harming.
The Gentle breath as taught by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine has indeed been a huge and supportive bridge for me to connect more deeply to myself and this is an amazing gift that has opened up other doors I had never fathomed.
Life is very much a treadmill experience for most of us. We either learn to run really fast and handle the treadmill well and then we think we are really good at what we do. OR we are not so good with the treadmill and think we are failures. But in the end the focus is still on the treadmill. Meanwhile there are those who are not on the treadmill and getting on with life without the treadmill effect, simply doing what they are doing with the simplicity of knowing that one day the person on the treadmill might just glance in their direction and see that there is indeed another way.
Susan, thank you – I love how you have busted the myth that stillness is about sitting or lying still. It is far deeper than this and something to develop a relationship with and bring into our lived experience over time.
Stillness is like an underground reservoir, it goes on forever.
I have had this sense of a never ending sense of depth, it is the most exquisite sensation to feel, and a marker to return to when I allow myself to get caught up in the rush of life.
For me my relationship with stillness is through my body, there’s no other way to access it.
Living a life of fight or flight is exhausting. Living with a body which we put into constant tension on a physical level does not bode well for living a healthy life.
I love when I find myself in absolute stillness.
The simplicity of your words Alexandre allows the space for that stillness.
It’s a beautiful thing to watch someone moving in stillness, stillness not being anything to do with the motion of the body but a quality within the body.
I agree with you Alexis there is something in the way they walk that is arresting to watch, and quite frankly there is this over powering sense of I want some of that, grace, power and delicacy which is combined into a flow of movement that is like watching liquid mercury.
So beautifully expressed Mary, so, so beautiful.
This shows the responsibility we have as parents, families, as a community and society in supporting the growth, nurturing and wellbeing of our younger generations ‘How would it be if we were to be born into a family where everything was about stillness and being – would this not allow us the freedom to gradually grow and mature into a fully rounded person who is in connection both with themselves and equally with those around us?’
Beyond doubt I feel and yet we are slow to make the change – in our arrogance we want to hold on to the ‘old familiar’ patterns that have paralysed us for aeons.
Susan Lee I agree with you what I have found out for myself is those ‘old familiar’ patterns that you talk of can be from life times of self abuse where we have walked away from what we know to be true and replaced the truth with convenient lies which keep us from accessing the divinity we walked away from purposely so.
It is true we can be hard and rough, charging around but when we choose to be gentle with our movements the quality of our being changes and it is tangible. The gentleness gives us the precious gift of being able to read the messages from the body that are there to evolve us and not there to punish us. The body is not our enemy but our greatest support.
I love what you say Julie – the body’s messages are not always welcomed by us but none the less they spring forth from love – the love that knows no limits.
Yes, Julie, so true and yet we have arrived at a point where abuse is more common than not. Until we return to love we will not change the world around us – the world that we live in with our whole family.
The saying, if you can’t beat them join them, comes to mind with the peer pressure that erodes our stillness when we are young. There is another point when we leave school and spread our wings to leave the nest that can turn into flight or fight. All of this is to keep us moving away from who we are. But we never lose our stillness, that it is always waiting patiently for us to return to who we are.
How gorgeous is that, that the depth of stillness is always there within each and every person. So then how crazy is it that we do not fully allow ourselves to feel this beauty? Everything we need lies within: no other person can have it, take it or own it. It is innately there.
And when we doubt this we can simply dig deeper and the Universe will respond by simply holding us until we are ready to trust the infinite power of a bounteous God.
Vicky we are sold so many lies and one of them is that this innate stillness can be taken away from us. In the dark ages when religion ruled over most people you were put to death in the most agonizing way that could be contrived, so that when you reincarnated again the spirit would be so traumatized by the experience that it would be almost impossible to settle. The nervous system is used as a form of suppression to keep us in that perpetual state of unrest so that we cannot feel any stillness. As you say it is always there it may be buried under layers of trauma. But our innateness cannot be taken from us this is the law of the universe that the particles that make up who we are belong to God as we were breathed forth by him.
The one-ness and Joy of being in our essences or Soul take the beating-em out of the equation as we become much more harmonious in the most loving ways, so we can spread our wings.
And fly. The joy of embodying stillness allows us to let go of our dense body and feel the wisdom of our soul.
And when we do return that stillness is holding us as we gradually surrender to a way of living that reflects this to everyone.
Our reflection is our greatest way of communicating the stillness and Joy-full appreciation of being Soul-full.
When we reach that point of being soul-full joy is our daily living reflection.
Without stillness we are lost to the whim of everyone and his brother, find stillness within and we are an authority to ourselves.
Your words inspire us to go deeper within and find our truth.
‘It feels like we are continually searching for the ‘Holy Grail’ without having an inkling of what this could possibly be.’ The clue is it has never been on the outside ❤️ Also just reflecting on how we reduce the vastness, beauty, depth of God, magic and absolute wonder of the Universe by calling it the ‘Holy Grail’.
Ah, yes Vicky, that is really calling out how fooled we have been – or is it a matter of fooling ourselves? I ask myself why would we want to substitute the magnificence that is God with something as facile as the ‘Holy Grail’. We have sold out to an illusion yet again.
Absolutely Vicky, why look out side our when the Holy Grail has always resided within, as in our inner-most heart or Soul (one and the same).
Stillness is always there and so a pertinent question for all of us is ‘what is our relationship with stillness’. Now for most of us are answers would be along the same general lines ‘I have no conscious awareness of what it is/I hate it, it makes me feel uncomfortable/it’s a foreign concept/I don’t know what it means/I can’t remember ever feeling still/do you mean sleeping or laying still?’, the number of people in the world who truly know what stillness feels like in their bodies is relatively very few and that’s not a criticism that’s simply a reflection of how much motion we’ve injected into the world and the way that we’re choosing to live.
Interesting how the lack of stillness is prevailing more and more – and yet as you say Alexis ‘Stillness is always there’ – something to ponder on and maybe connect to that stillness?
This is a very thought provoking blog. What I can get a sense of is that there is a way to live that currently we are choosing not to live. But we do know this way of living as we have lived it before, the particles in our body align to the universe and there was a time when we were in tune with the universe and could look at the stars and they gave meaning to a way of life. Is it no coincidence that the way we live produces so much light pollution that for many of us we cannot even see the stars at night and are therefore cut off from visualizing our truth?
What we have lived before is so much greater and grander than any space flight to the moon can offer. We have an innate connection to the stars and that huge expanse above us – we can feel the magnetic pull and the feelings that vibrate from our body when it’s in communion with the all. As you say Mary ‘Is it no coincidence that the way we live produces so much light pollution that for many of us we cannot even see the stars at night and are therefore cut off from visualizing our truth?’
In stillness – everything flows, in rushing my life feels like concrete. The pay off to this is getting to be ‘hard’ and so not have to feel things. Embracing our natural stillness means accepting the awareness that is so ready and waiting there – no matter how inconvenient this may be.
The more we embrace stillness and its flow without obstacles, the easier it becomes to feel the constriction when we are pulled out of stillness, even just a little.
Seeing each moment as an opportunity we are forever learning and expanding our understanding – and then we realise that we are incrementally returning to heaven.
Stillness is the space that God offers us to return home.
Susan through your living way you are able to convey a feeling of stillness in the reader, this is really quite extraordinary and oh so beautiful. I thank you, truly I do.
And what I find very beautiful is that we all have access to this knowingness – all we need to do is open ourselves up and become willing to feel the vibration of God and what he is sharing. This process is infinite and boundless – the more we surrender the greater the abundance.
I agree Susan, it feels like we become wider and wider channels through which God can pour.
What I am learning is that if this is what I feel in my body I must listen and discern the truth of what I feel. When I feel the connection to God I am indeed an open channel for God to pour through……and the deeper I go the greater the wisdom that pours through without reservation.
Years ago I’d avoid being still. These days I can still avoid it, but when I do allow myself to drop I am more able to accept it and sink deeply into that feeling. Better than sinking into a hot bath any day.
For me it wasn’t so much that I avoided being still it was that I wasn’t able to be still because I felt a constant level of anxiety and restlessness. Even when my body was sick and calling to be still I would push myself to do something if I possibly could. This continual drive to be moving came from two main sources, one was the constant avoidance of feeling the underlying agitation that I lived with and the other was the driving force of the belief that I had that my strength as a woman was governed by how much I managed to cram into my day.
What a farce we have made of life Alexis – we have chosen to make life as complicated as possible to avoid the gloriousness that we truly are. When we allow the Ageless Wisdom to flow through us we can let go and surrender to the way of the Universe, and then all we need to do is be. It may take us a while to return to our true way of being but for me there is no alternative. The world as it is at present is slowly destroying our connection to our soul – and I have tried living away from my soul and that felt so empty and without true purpose. Why would we choose anything less than the magnificence of God.
We seem absolutely determined to make ‘living less than the magnificence of God’ work and it’s a bit like using our heads as battering rams, we keep doggedly trying to make it work.
And yet deep within we do know that we will return to our innate magnificent selves in union with God and humanity. And maybe that day is not as far away as we think? Together we can make such a difference.
I love sinking into a hot bath, combine that with space ( the space it allows us in our busy day/ body ) and hey presto
The holding of God is beyond words and the invitation is eternal.
This is gorgeous “We all came from a single Out-breath and we will all return back to our source by a single In-breath.” (1)’ It is crazy how society currently fights and resist our innate way of being .. wasted energy adding to struggle and stress when it so does not need to be like this ✨
And what is even more extraordinary is that this is our choice – we are definitely not a victim but the perpetrator of all our ills.
Thanks Susan, I appreciated reading about the stillness we can reconnect to with our breath and it’s link to the particles of our body being able to receive the wisdom of God. In this when we are in our gentle breath we can return to our innate stillness, we then can know so much by what’s available to access – or we can leave ourselves and that stillness and spend our lives in ‘doing’, seeking knowledge outside of ourselves, and missing being who we naturally are.
I find it fascinating Melinda that we are as a group of human-beings living with this constant raciness and unsettlement in our bodies that keeps us in the ‘doing’ rather than in just ‘being’. Is it possible that by always being in the activity of the ‘doing’ we have given our collective power away to the many mainstream religions that have encouraged us to rely on their version of God, rather than the natural connection we have with him, and because we have disconnected to our own sense of knowing God we live in the unsettlement which is our bodies way of telling us we are out of kilter with the universe/God and therefore with ourselves?
It is truly extraordinary that as human beings we are actually living less by choice and bringing so much complication into that livingness. We can either choose to live life simply from the impulse of God or we can live a life that is besieged by unrest and anxiety.
“It may be that what is made legend is not material at all but a source and or style of livingness: a way to move that aligns your physical particles so as to receive the wisdom of God.” I love this quote. Being with God is simply to align our particles to the vibration of God and it is not about the doing as we have made it to be in our mainstream religions.
So living religiously is therefore an alignment and not something that is reserved for a select few who have studied, been chosen or been ordained. Of course this must be true otherwise God wouldn’t be who He is.
That’s so gorgeous Alexis and makes such sense. By allowing God to be anything less than the all that he is we are denying the whole of humanity the blessings that are poured down to us in every moment. God is indeed infinite.
Not only is God infinite but He’s all there is.
And when we let God into our lives we know this undoubtedly.
Susan it’s funny isn’t it when we use the phrase ‘let God into our lives’ when not only is He already in but He is us and we are Him.
Wow, Alexis, I so agree ‘He is us and we are Him’ and with God there can be no separation try as hard as might.God’s beholding love leaves no doubt.
Yes, Lieke as we align our physical particles to God we are saying yes to the Universe and the religion of the stars.
It is within the stillness we know God.
Which is why the forces that are invested in us not knowing God keep us in constant motion.
We can feel that we have no option until we realise that we do. This may come about in different ways – for me I am often stopped in my tracks before I am willing to surrender – at other times I am open to seeing that God is always waiting and holding me.
The holding power of God is absolute stillness.
Taking our time so we feel what is happening to us allows us the space to proceed through life in connection to our stillness, joy, harmony, wisdom, truth and Love of our Soul-full essences, that which resides deep within.
Stillness is the holding love of God.
Absolutely Susan, every aspect of God holds us!
And it is that ‘every aspect’ that is absolute and divine.
Beautiful Greg – those moments to see reflect and ponder are magic moments that can change the course of our lives.
Absolutely Henrietta, and thus being situated in a way that feels how the repose we can go into deepens our relationship with the universe.
Great sharing Susan. It is so true, what you write about stillness. Even today I struggle to stop the momentum of doing. As you say, it can be so simple. I just have to stop the busyness, this wrong desire of needing to do to do something all the time. Stillness is part of our essence and once we are in stillness, joy and harmony arises as well.
Stillness offers us the space to surrender to a wisdom that is Ageless.
alexander1207, I have found that when I allow my mind to take over and get involved it can manifest many things to keep me in the raciness and distraction of life. If I keep my body ‘clean’ by not eating or drinking substances that will race it. I can actually get in contact with the stillness that is there as you say it is part of our essence, the core of who we are.
‘When our surrounding energy is one of ‘doing’ rather than ‘being’…’ so much is offered in these words when we allow ourselves to feel the difference between approaching life from ‘doing’ and ‘being’ first.
‘Doing’ takes us away from ourselves whereas ‘Being’ allows a deepening and unfolding.
And ‘Being’ develops the quality in which we thereafter can do things. So it is a constant rhythm from deepening in our ‘being’ to bringing this out in what we are doing but it always starts with ‘being’. When we start from ‘doing’ we don’t have a reference point of what quality we are in.
Well said Michael and we are often more drawn to the one that keeps us in the momentum we have always had as this is our zone of comfort – what we are familiar with.
When I go into the doing to get something completed, I make a lot of typing mistakes, which is a great reminder that my mind is racing faster than I can type. This is a great marker for anyone that does this, as it shows us that we need to slow down and bring ourselves back into our bodies and to not racing ahead to get things done. We all have a tendency to tick the boxes of life rather than just give ourselves the space to also enjoy life.
“there is a depth of wisdom that pulses through our body.” A beautiful invitation to feel and reconnect to the vibration of stillness within.
I love the sense that the ‘body invites’ – what we refer to is pain is an invitation from our body to look at what might be causing the pain and yet we more often than not complain. In future I will be more welcoming with these invitations.
And what I am experiencing at the moment is that ‘pain’ in the body isn’t reserved to pain that is felt when we are physically unwell or injured but also to the pain that we feel when we are in the pain of disruption caused by any kind of emotional unrest. I have recently gone into a long held pattern of comparison and it is physically uncomfortable and incredibly unsettling and I can feel how it totally obliterates stillness. But how wonderful in a way that I can feel it so clearly because it is something that absolutely has to be addressed because even when it’s not triggered it still sits as a barrier between me and my ability to be still.
The more sensitive we become the finer the detail of our every experience – any moment we are not being totally transparent in our expression we are capping both ourselves and others – and the consequence is our soul can feel this like a vice crushing our very being.
Sure there is a ‘depth of wisdom that pulses through our body” but most of us don’t have a clue that it’s there because we have to be able to feel it to know it and the way that most of us are living is so chaotic (even those of us that live in an ordered way, order and control can be a form of chaos) that we can’t feel or hear the wisdom that’s there. And this is the tactic of the forces that work to keep us from the truth, ‘keep the people constantly distracted’ and for the most part it works.
It keeps working while we keep subscribing to it. To feel the depth of chaos that we are living in is too much for many of us and yet finally we will accept that we have reached the end of the road. In that final surrender we will begin to live the glory that is our natural heritage and where harmony reigns.
Alexis I agree with you that we humanity have found a myriad of ways to keep ourselves in the distraction of life, so that at no point do we get to feel the stillness that resides within us. We have set this life up to be a constant distraction and it will be humanity as a collective that will have to dismantle the games we are playing. In our resistance we are making it much harder than it needs to be, but return to the stillness of our soul we will. It is an irrefutable law of the universe.