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Tag: stillness

  • Growth in Stillness

    How do you react to stillness? Do you dread it because busyness is your middle name? Or do you embrace it in the garb of laziness? Or do you find it comes naturally to you?

    Being still is an art. And like every other art form, it take practise. Hours and hours of practise to be able to master it.

    So start small, and not be meditating with your mind. First meditate with your body. Keep your focus undiverted at the task at hand and stay at it without itching to pick up the next task or the next thought.

    It would be discomforting to begin with. Staying calm and undisturbed doesn’t come easy. Fleeting thoughts, feelings and to-do list float around you. You swim in the sea of constant chaos. So find your comfort in this discomfort.

    Once you master your concentration skills, start lengthening the same and put it to work while doing nothing. Or simply put meditate for a brief period. Anxiety comes natural to us humans. Choose stillness over it, start small but start today.

  • A culture of Busyness

    No it’s not a typo, no auto-correct here. I mean busyness – that state where one consciously keeps busy fluttering from one task to another. In short the opposite of stillness. Also not to be confused with the word business though I wonder if busyness & business share a common origin.

    So how does one master this art – practise my friend. Stay occupied all day, every day. At work, at play. Come rain, come shine. Turn into a bee worker, not pausing for a breather. And you would seemingly appear the most important person without whom the world would collapse.

    Or become a mindful zen, a practitioner of slow living. Give your mind, body and soul alternate spurts of intense productivity and ‘do nothing’ breaks. Try it, it is a game changer to being your best version. & yes I mean business here.