Inner Work Tips | Placing Value on Stillness to Influence Your Life Positively

Stillness has an influence over us that's a very not really talked about thing Stillness influences us we do meditation we often bring sort of subtle agendas into meditation and there's various forms of it but ultimately the way I see it is that when we sit and the mind is very active we get to a point where the Mind begins to settle and enters a Stillness and that's influential it's like it it doesn't make much sense rationally speaking because we think we find influence through the rational mind through problem solving through rehashing but Stillness influences it's not you know just the experience of Stillness itself it's influential we're all aware that the problem solving mind is you know it's the thing we turn to when we find ourselves faced with various problems and I can't sit here really and say you know why it is that Stillness is so influential but I'm basing this on experience if you do this long enough you begin to realize there's like this association with the degree to which I can become still and the degree to which my problems seem to be solved for me so this is about coming to Value Stillness not just as an experience but as an influential power in our lives it's what we value it's who we turn to what we turn to when we are in need of help and you'll know I mean how many times does the rational mind take a problem and revisit it reanalyze it weigh up the pros and cons and does that and then does it again and then does it again and does it again don't get me wrong there's a place for the the rational mind to come in and have an a look at the seemingly apparent pros and cons of whatever problem we're facing that's normal that's to be expected all I'm saying is don't underestimate the influence that Stillness can have on that problem once you've allowed yourself to weigh up the pros and cons of what it might be it's really your higher mind that's having the influence your higher self the higher part of who you are we could almost say it speaks in Stillness Stillness Speaks in that sense it's very very influential now it doesn't speak the same way the rational mind does with intrusive thoughts and uh you ever notice how it's always almost always kind of lose lose scenario if I do this it's not good but if I do that it's not good and it gets stuck in this paralysis of indecision Through Stillness I found that uh all those loose loose scenarios kind of become win-win scenarios but it's not you know you don't get to that point through through overh hasing and reanalyzing everything it's Stillness will bring you to that realization so when we sit in uh in a reflective period you can call it a reflective period call it meditation call it prayer whatever it is that you want to call it we don't try to achieve Stillness we value still Stillness that's how it's achieved we we see it as that's very very useful when I'm not thinking something is happening see we've been conditioned to think that when when I'm not thinking my mind is blank nothing is happening here's the crazy thing when our mind is rehashing and reanalyzing when that's happening the truth is the mind is blank that's actually when the mind is blank so when we sit it's a good idea to kind of relax your body as much as you can this can take a little while could take a few minutes to just start to relax the body and allow the mind to race to let it do its thing it's not about repressing it it's not about stopping it you absolutely let it run with the problem solving and the rehashing and the analyzing but Through valuing Stillness and seeing it as influential and useful it makes it so much more likely that we will get to that place of [Music] Stillness