WE ARE EXPLORING THE PRACTICE
OF STILLNESS
Here is another
quote from that wonderful book by Erich Schiffmann, the great Yoga teacher:
Stillness, therefore, is a higher energy
state than what we're used to. This is because we are rarely wholehearted, or
unconflicted, about anything. When you are not wholehearted, when you'd rather
be someplace other than where you are, parts of you shut down and begin not to
participate. Your energy circulation becomes constricted, and the creative life
force is unable to flow through you unimpeded. Your energy flow, the amount of
life force flowing through you, begins to diminish. The source of the energy
does not diminish, but the amount that flows through you does. This leads to
ill health, low energy, lowered vitality, lack of enthusiasm, depression,
frustration, unhappiness, and suffering. None of this feels good.
Several years ago,
Erich Schiffmann collaborated with Ali McGraw in a great teaching video with
some of the basic asanas of physical yoga practice. You can buy it at http://www.amazon.com/Ali-MacGraw-Yoga-Mind-Body/dp/B0000DI88C. There is a brief intro on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEyThDP0HGI
Of course, yoga is
not the only mental, spiritual and physical practice which can create and sustain
stillness, but it is a good one, tested for thousands of years. Even if you don’t practice yoga, the
spiritual wisdom Erich Schiffmann offers in Moving
Into Stillness is wonderful.
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