Stillness
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People have asked me how I’m able to channel, to see others’ past lives, and to connect with angels and guides. From my perspective, five elements came together for it to happen: writing, stillness, listening, trust, and teachers. This piece is about stillness.
I started a practice in the early 2000’s that continues today. In hindsight, it’s probably had the most influence on me on this long spiritual journey than anything else. I truly can’t imagine my life with some version of this element.
The practice is sitting in stillness.
When it started, I’d wake up early before kids and work, and sit in the darkness in my bedroom (with coffee) and look out the windows as the sky slowly lightened each day. I wasn’t trying to achieve anything. It wasn’t about meditation or deep thoughts or strategic planning. It was just sitting there in the darkness and the stillness, watching the stars eventually fade behind the emerging light.
Yes, of course a multitude of thoughts, emotions, memories and experiences would come to mind. Yet there were also times of profound peace and happiness just sitting in the expanse of pure beingness.
“There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of this stillness. It is simply here in you, with you. It is the fragrance of your own self. There is nothing to do about this, it is naturally present. This fragrance of peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your own being.”
-Mooji
Over the years, there have been periods of time when morning stillness has given way to “more important” things. Yet I’d invariably feel a bit lost after a few weeks and come back to the place where I felt the most real and true in my body. Back to peace, back to spaciousness.
I invite you to explore this practice. Have no agenda, no benchmarks, no judgement, and no intentions to meditate, think or strategize. All you have to do is let yourself completely release into stillness (and see what you see).