Can you feel the stillness inside you?
If you stop thinking just for a moment, can you feel the stillness?
Maybe you wonder how to stop thinking. Maybe you are trying to work out how to stop – but that is using your thinking, isn’t it?
Maybe you think that if you could just stop thinking, then you will feel the stillness.

What if there was another way?

Actually, do you want to stop thinking? It might be scary, not thinking. Even if you have a very busy mind and wish it would just slow down, do you really want to be without thinking. I’m pretty sure that mostly you appreciate your thinking. Who would you be if you didn’t think? Would you be a zombie? Or would you be out of control? Thinking is important. It helps us plan, analyze, discriminate, decide. But sometimes, it all seems too much. Because the thinking gets in a tangle trying to figure things out, trying to figure other people out, trying to figure out to avoid being judged, trying to figure out the best action, trying to figure out who likes us.

And there is another way.

Meanwhile, the body gets tense. Have you noticed? And tenser! Yes, there is a link between thinking and how your body is.

Sometimes we ignore the body and just expect it to run its life as it should and blame something outside when it doesn’t.
And there is also a link between thinking and emotions. We think, judge, criticise, analyse, expect – all the time either avoiding an emotion or triggering an emotion. They sit around inside waiting to be acknowledged.

And there is another way.

Just stop! And again, your mind might say “How?” But if you do it before you think “how”, it happens. Often, its stops for a second and then another time, for 3 seconds. This is enough. This allows you to unconsciously drop deeper inside you and is very refreshing. Bring your awareness to that second and notice.
And when your mind is skedaddling all over the place, focus on one small thing outside yourself for a second and then stop, dropping inside. The stillness is here.