The Stillness Within

With CranioSacral Therapy we can journey into the depths of our inner stillness. From that stillness we can tap into and learn more about our wonderful true selves, all the shades, all the parts, and embrace the totality of who we are. Sometimes when we go into our stillness we are finally able to rest and let go into the richness of the present moment instead of worrying about what was already past or what we don’t know of the future. We can “just be” right here, right now, free of expectations, judgments, shoulds, coulds and woulds. That takes a big weight off, doesn’t it?  

This poem by Gunilla Norris is a lovely expression of the expansive possibilities of where being present with our stillness can take us. I invite you to let it come into this moment of your being.

Paradox of Noise

It is a paradox that we encounter 

so much internal noise when we first try to sit in silence.

It is a paradox that experiencing pain releases pain.

It is a paradox that keeping still can lead us so fully into life and being.

Our minds do not like paradoxes. We want things

to be clear, so we can maintain our illusions of safety.

Certainty breeds tremendous smugness.

We can possess a deeper level of being, however, which

loves paradox. It knows that summer is already Growing like a

seed in the depth of winter. It knows that the moment we are born, we begin to die. It knows that all of life shimmers,

in shades of becoming—that shadow and light are always

together, the visible mingled with the invisible.

When we sit in stillness we are profoundly active.

Keeping silent we hear the roar of existence.

Through our willingness to be the one we are,

We become one with everything.

~ By Gunilla Norris