Keep in touch with yourself

 Why is it so hard to go against the norm? There are so many fears that can come along with charting your own path - you risk ridicule, isolation, and potential loneliness. Our culture often does not make it easy to embrace who we truly are. It usually seems easier to go with the status quo with less risk of strange looks, harsh words, or worse. Rachel Astor



As we journey towards stillness, there will be moments where we doubt that being still is an effective strategy or solution, we may even believe that stillness is a waste of time. The over riding culture promotes that there is no time to be still, that stillness takes away from the "things we have to do"

What I have learnt on the Journey to Stillness is, when changes are occurring in your life, especially the life altering ones, stillness is one of the techniques that can provide us with a level of  inner guidance like no other. The opportunity to pause, reflect, stop and breathe becomes critical.  Stillness puts you in a space where you cannot deny or distract yourself anymore, denial is done. Leading you back into your power. When you are clear about what is in front of you, when you face it, you can make decisions from a space of power, from reality, rather than denial.

According to Eckart Tolle "stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found" 

Get still because if you lose touch with yourself, you lose touch with the world.

Peace

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