Stillness opens the door to vision and genius

Finding stillness in your inside world leads you to new awareness, inside and out.

When you handle a constant demand to do, something, anything - it’s difficult to have an awareness of what exists all around you.

Non-stop doing creates an escape from being, seeing, feeling, and experiencing, which is the point, as if one were running away from something. Doing can be an addiction, one that is easily fed in today’s world of non-stop activity. Plus there’s the added bonus of appearing to be virtuous because you’re working so hard. One can become a martyr to doing too much.

According to popular myth, you are supposed to be doing something, and to be able to answer for yourself when asked what that something is. That something you are doing becomes your identity, and sometimes a title or description is required too; “doctor, agent, lawyer, mother, etc…”.

Many people become nervous when asked to just sit still and be. It’s exhausting to be around someone who has no still point within him or herself. It’s even more exhausting to be that person.

When’s the last time someone asked you, ‘who are you being?’ instead of ‘what have you been doing?’.

People become uncomfortable with inactivity for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to: fear of loss of control, new revelations which may be unwelcome, feeling deeply denied feelings, fear of letting others down and then being judged harshly, and invalidation.

So this unconscious doing prevents you from acquiring the information and skills you need to give yourself permission to consciously create more space and peace for yourself. In other words, if you do not take the time to be, you will never know what you are missing. Kind of a vicious circle, isn’t it?

There is a big difference between consciously acting, and unconsciously doing.

What if you didn’t play that game anymore, the doing game? What if you listened instead to your own voice and more consciously spoke about what and who you are being? You can begin with speaking to yourself. What if you didn’t care what others thought, or how they judged you? Much of that judgment may even be self inflicted.

It’s difficult to control a person who has decided to be who they are, who practices self acceptance, love, and forgiveness. When you decide to become, you have the ability to create from your spirit, and your vision increases. You also become healing to be around, without having to do one thing differently, other than Be. Your own genius now has the space to grow.

• ©Kris Cahill
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