{"id":552,"date":"2018-08-14T11:16:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T15:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willneratlanta.com\/blog\/?p=552"},"modified":"2021-06-18T23:57:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T03:57:03","slug":"becoming-stillness-pause-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peachvitamins.com\/learn\/becoming-stillness-pause-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Stillness | Pause and Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Becoming Stillness &#8211;\u00a0The Productiveness of Stillness<\/h2>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>I\u2019ve been really practicing this the last few days\u00a0, becoming stillness, pausing and being present with wherever\u00a0I am and with whatever\u00a0I am doing at that moment. In fact I haven\u2019t really had to put effort into making it happen, becoming aware I mean.<\/p>\n becoming stillness\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Somehow as I am in the busyness of an activity of the day like driving to work, or getting caught up in too much thinking or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.harvard.edu\/mind-and-mood\/when-to-worry-about-worrying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>worrying\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>I have found myself gently moving my attention to being aware of what I am doing or thinking and this feeling of stillness and lightness comes over me. It\u2019s as if my practice of <a href=\"\/learn\/tired-sleepless-nights-short-term-memory-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>meditation<\/strong> <\/a>has left the meditation room and come with me.<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-346\">\n<div>\n<p>No complaints here! What a sweet sensation and feeling this has been. It\u2019s as if all activity ceases\u00a0 and a feeling of remembering being in whatever space I am in\u00a0 is all there is.<\/p>\n<p>You can actually \u00a0practice this too. Just pause and remember yourself, your breath, your body, feeling all of what you are doing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Relational Stillness: Key to Excellence<\/h2>\n<div>\n prayer for stillness\n<p>Years ago I heard a therapist suggest to set your watch alarm every fifteen minutes to get in touch with your feelings. This isn\u2019t as regimented. It\u2019s more like riding the waves in the ocean\u00a0when you were\u00a0 kid.\u00a0 This is like when you\u00a0went over a rough one and \u00a0you suddenly got a mouthful of water your head bopped out\u00a0of the water\u00a0and suddenly you were more awake then when you started. Remember that feeling? This isn\u2019t as abrupt actually, much more gentle in fact. But the effect of liveliness is similar.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always had a longing for a quiet life and in the midst of such a busy life in a city this is truly a gift.Not having to go away to experience this but to <a href=\"https:\/\/peachvitamins.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>stay right where I am<\/em><\/a> in my\u00a0 very own daily life. Perhaps\u00a0 this is my \u201cspring break\u201d!<\/p>\n<p>Gedaliah Genin ND\/Energy Medicine<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gedaliahhealingarts.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.gedaliahhealingarts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becoming Stillness &#8211;\u00a0The Productiveness of Stillness I\u2019ve been really practicing this the last few days\u00a0, becoming stillness, pausing and being present with wherever\u00a0I am and with whatever\u00a0I am doing at that moment. In fact I haven\u2019t really had to put effort into making it happen, becoming aware I mean. Somehow as I am in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peachvitamins.com\/learn\/becoming-stillness-pause-remember\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1274],"tags":[1586,1587,1588,1589,1590,1591,403,1593,1592,1594,1595,1596,1597,1598,1599],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peachvitamins.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peachvitamins.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peachvitamins.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peachvitamins.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peachvitamins.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peachvitamins.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peachvitamins.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peachvitamins.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peachvitamins.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peachvitamins.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}