Stillness...
Meditating every morning is not easy. Some days I really don’t want to do it, some days I am too busy to carve myself even 10 minutes, some days I really struggle to do anything other than just sit there while my brain offloads its many many scattered thoughts and tries to take me on numerous off topic conversations.
But I try as much as possible to show up every day. I wont lie and say I absolutely without question do it every single day because some days those things I mentioned above do really get the better of me and I simply…don’t. But I try not to judge myself on those days, I try to keep them as few and far between as possible, and I try to show up for just a moment, just a few breaths anyway.
This morning has been one of those mornings where I didn’t want to show up. I didn’t have the patience or time today to do it, but I did show up. I did sit in stillness for 15 minutes, largely because I have a reading to do later today and I want to be in the best possible place within myself to do that, but also because I recognise that on days like today, I probably need to show up the most.
It’s easy to commit to self care and self practice when life is running smoothly, when I have all the time in the world and I feel blissfully at peace. It’s easy then because it’s easy. Ha!
There’s an old proverb that says, “You should meditate for an hour every day, if you don’t have time, you should meditate for two hours every day.”
Isn’t that the truth.
When I don’t have time to be still, isn’t that when I need stillness the most?
When I don’t have time to listen, isn’t that when I need to hear the messages the most?
When I don’t have time to stop, isn’t that when I need more than ever to stop?
I’m in the process of writing my first solo book, and I say process because I really have no plan, the whole thing is being channelled as and when I write it and aside from a vague outline and a possible title, I really don’t yet know where this book is taking me, but I do know that right now, the focus is on the duality and balance of life and nature.
Balance.
The Laws of Physics define the concepts of cause and effect, of equal and opposite, the push and pull.
Yin and Yang.
We cannot exist with out balance. The Universe has a way of creating its own balance if we refuse to acknowledge its importance. This is why we become sick, we hurt ourselves, we burn out, we find ourselves forced into rest, forced into stillness. If we refuse to listen the fundamental laws of physics, that everything requires an equal and opposite force, that if we insist upon action, busy-ness, and movement all of the time, and we don’t allow time for stillness, for rest, then the Universe is going to make time for us.
My beautiful friend, I invite you to carve out time for stillness today.
Not reading, not watching tv, not distracting your mind with pretend stillness as we all seem to do in modern times; but actual stillness. Sit quietly. Breath deeply. Let your body some to a complete stop and let it sink into the Earth beneath itself for a few minutes. Treat this time as being as important as that phone call you need to make, or that chore you need to complete, or that deadline you have looming. Treat it as invaluable, important, non negotiable time for balance.
Remember, if you don’t then the Universe might.