FROM MY BALCONY

 Would you like a moment of stillness?

Why not try meditation - a rather scary or posh word for relaxing your mind, emptying it of rubbish and coming home to yourself for a while... 

 It's not easy to stop the continual 'streaming' of thoughts and feelings, but the more you do it, the slightly easier it gets.

Try this one, based on a verse from the psalms 'Be still and know I am God'.


First sit or lie somewhere comfortable and quiet.


Then after a few minutes, speak out loud these words..


Be still and know that I am God...


After a minute or two say


Be still and know that I am...


After a few more minutes


Be still and know...


Then


Be still...


And finally


Be



It's quite hard to come home to yourself, but it's where you belong.


You are not your thoughts - who you are is based somewhere far deeper than your mind, more like in your guts, or you could say your heart.


And who you are is made in the image of God with the divine spark of life always within you.  It's just it can get very buried.  Times of stillness can help you reconnect with yourself and the Loving Source of all life.


I hope you give it a go!

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