Right now, i’m finding myself in the center of stillness, a.k.a. the zero-point. My association with it had always been one of emptiness and nothingness and at the same time “that it will bring up everything I don’t want to feel”, thus my relationship to stillness has been one of resistance and avoidance.
I have been here before, but now I’m finding myself in this place of stillness in a renewed way in what I can only imagine feels like being in the eye of a hurricane.
Our resistance to stillness however actually manifests and maintains drama and chaos in our lives, because stillness and movement are opposites and when we push one polarity away we automatically attract more of the other polarity to us.
It’s only in the balance point, the zero-point in fact, where we can maintain a healthy balance between both polarities, whether light or dark, stillness or movement, love or fear, etc. Otherwise we end up continuously experiencing our resistance to what we actually need to feel that lies just beyond this resistance, and is much less intense and long-lasting.
You will know you are there when being in balance with both feels energising, enlivening and empowering rather than tense, contracted and draining.
If we fully allow and embrace our inner stillness, we can get in touch with our internal engine (our fire and passion), and more importantly, where it wants to go. In eastern traditions such as traditional chinese medicine, stillness is a more natural state embraced as a way of being. The energy generated by what I call our internal engine is what they call “qi” or chi, which is in essence our life force.
My inspired insight here is realising the paradox between stillness and power. As you become more still in your state of being you actually generate more power to achieve what you want, rather than relying on external power derived from ‘thinking’ you need to do something or take an action. This becomes actually dis-empowering and unfulfilling when it’s not coming from a connection within.
What is your relationship to stillness? Imagine for a moment if doing less would actually benefit you more, in everything that you experience and achieve. Not a bit more but much much more…
