Where is the stillness?

Stillness

In our busy turbulent world (and that is just in our mind!), to consciously experience stillness is a gift.

As Elle Harrison beautifully offers in Wild Courage (2011) offers, stillness allows us to see things as they are. It provides space for creativity to emerge and through balancing its relationship with activity, invites us to redefine our productivity.

And we can choose to access stillness in any moment.

It can be as simple as bringing attention to your breath. Honouring that. Closing your eyes and settling into a deeper and broader awareness.  On a coaching call today with a stressed executive, I invited him to do just that.   To access what was already calm and still.   And it can also include purposeful pausing, reflecting, resting and recharging.  And even doing this all together in a virtual team meeting.

A figure of stillness which served to give me inspiration and still does, is a statue. You may recognise it.

A poem

Here’s my poem in honor of “la fontana di Trevi”

Amidst the noise and chaos there you are

Standing proudly with open arms and heart

Commanding, yet welcoming in your carved glory

Serene in your stillness and true stature

Exuding a wildness with control

A majestic beauty with strength and grace

Offering and accepting the riches

Letting things flow over you as you

Remain still 

Very still 

It so doesn’t matter to you whether

You are favoured, adored, worshipped or not

Whether people come to see you or don’t

Whether there is rain, sun, sleet, snow

Whether they throw their coins or take photos

None of this affects the way that you are

You are just there

Being yourself

Still

So very still