My latest book, Resonance – Awaken the Stillness Within, is out now and available to download wherever in the world you order from Amazon.

 

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Chapter Excerpt –Introduction

 

Pulsating,

Feel a sense of calm

Resonating deep inside

 

Through all the noise,

A signal calls.

 

 

 

 

Stillness has become something of a lost art in our ‘always on’ culture.

 

There is a growing realisation this is so.

 

Many of us are trying to bring stillness back into our lives.  A meditation practice, yoga, long walks with the dog, time outside in nature, a breathing practice.  It all counts, it can all work.

 

We are starting to see this time for calm as necessary.  An antidote of sorts, to the incoming, to the demands on our time, to the busyness.  Intentionally making space for resets and downtime.  Realising that yang needs yin.

 

While this type of self-care is a positive step, it is only scratching at the surface of stillness.

 

These practices are about stillness in stillness.  To go deeper, we must learn to quieten our mind when all around us is not.  Working always from a place of calm.   We look to bring stillness to everything we do.

 

Moving with Stillness

This is the rare air.  These are the people that seem to retain a sense of calm, even in the face of adversity.

 

The CEO that calmly and confidently addresses an audience of thousands for a keynote speech.  Taking questions and objections in her stride, without missing a beat.

 

The teacher that patiently repeats instructions to a class of excitable (and sometimes unruly) children.

 

The fireman that walks into the danger zone, calmly counselling and helping the people he finds, away from harm’s way.

 

What does this have to do with us?

 

If we can bring stillness to our everyday lives, we turn up ready to give the best of ourselves.  Ready to give our best effort.

 

We no longer react with anger, frustration, or jealousy when things do not go our way.

 

We remove ego from the equation.

 

We search for a way through life’s challenges, knowing they will surely come.

 

We accept what needs to be accepted and let go of the rest.

 

We approach life with an active but quiet mind.  Adopting a Zen like outlook.

 

We seek to bring a sense of stillness to everything we do.  More than this, we commit to be stillness in motion.

 

Reconnecting to Stillness

That’s what this book is inspired by, finding stillness.

 

Through a mixture of essays, poems and ideas, we explore what it means to tap the stillness within.

 

I hope you enjoy the words ahead.  May they help bring you some inner peace, reconnecting you to the lightness and the stillness already inside.

Download your copy now 

 

 

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