Stillness - 3 minutes - practicing presence

Today I want to invite you to be still
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Thomas Merton says “So perhaps
I have an obligation to preserve the
stillness, the silence, the poverty, the
virginal point of pure nothingness
which is at the Center of all other loves.”
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It’s a pretty strong statement but you
just might find that the more you
practice silence and stillness the
more you will be drawn to it.
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I don’t know about you but in spite
of my best efforts my mind and my
body are anything but still most of
the time. My mind especially is
almost always racing.
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At the same time, as Merton says
stillness, silence, poverty, and the
virginal point of nothingness already
exist in some mysterious way. On some
level we know it and stillness helps to
get all of the unknowing out of the
way, so that we can truly know as
the Psalmist says in Psalm 46.10.
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If you’re ready to practice stillness
using this Psalm, I invite you to do
it now. If this moves too fast for you,
take some time later on and slow it
down.
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Let’s do a very quick body scan. Scan
your body and remind the various parts
of your body, from your head to your
toes to be still.
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Remind your mind to be still.
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And now let’s use Psalm 46.10 to
practice stillness and being...
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Be still and know that I am God
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Be still and know that I am
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Be still and know
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Be still
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Be
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Throughout the day if your mind
takes over, or you are feeling stressed,
remind your body and your mind to
be still and then just be.
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Peace ~ Rod

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