 Stillness has an influence over us. That's a very Not really talked about thing stillness Influences us. We do meditation. We often bring sort of Subtle agendas into meditation and there's various forms of it but Ultimately the way I see it is that When we sit and the mind is very active We get to a point where the mind begins to settle and enters a stillness and That's influential. It's like It doesn't make much sense rationally speaking because we think we Find influence through the rational mind through problem-solving True rehashing, but stillness Influences It's not, you know, just the experience of stillness itself It's influential. We're all aware that the Problem-solving mind is you know, it's the thing we turn to when we find ourselves Faced with various problems and I can't sit here really and say, you know, why it is that stillness is so influential But I'm basing this on experience if you do this long enough you begin to realize There's like this association with the degree to which I can become still and The degree to which my problems seem to be solved for me. So this is about coming to value Stillness not just as an experience but as an influential power in our lives It's what we value. It's who we turn to what we turn to when we are in need of help and you'll know, I mean how many times does the rational mind take a problem and Revisit it reanalyze it weigh up the pros and cons and Does that and then does it again and then does it again and Does it again? Don't get me wrong. There's a place for the the rational mind to come in and have a look at the Seemingly apparent pros and cons of whatever Problem we're facing. That's normal. That's to be expected. All I'm saying is don't underestimate The influence that stillness can have on that problem Once you've allowed yourself to weigh up the pros and cons of what it might be It's really Your higher mind That's having the influence of your higher self the higher part of who you are We could almost say it speaks in stillness stillness speaks and that sense It's very very influential now. It doesn't speak the same way the rational mind does with intrusive thoughts and Ever notice how it's always Almost always kind of lose lose scenario if I do this is not good But if I do that, it's not good and it gets stuck in this paralysis of indecision through stillness. I found that All those lose lose scenarios kind of become win-win scenarios But it's not you know, you don't get to that point through over hashing and reanalyzing everything It's stillness will bring you to that realization. So when we sit in In a reflective period you can call it a reflective period call the meditation call the prayer Whatever it is that you want to call it. We don't try to achieve stillness We value stillness. That's how it's achieved. We we see it as that's very very useful When I'm not thinking Something is happening You see we've been conditioned to think that when I'm not thinking my mind is blank nothing is happening Here's the crazy thing When our mind is rehashing and reanalyzing When that's happening the truth is the mind is blank That's actually when the mind is blank. So when we sit It's good idea to kind of relax your body as much as you can This can take a little while Could take a few minutes just to start to relax the body and allow the mind to race to let it do its thing It's not about repressing it. It's not about stopping it. You absolutely let it run With the problem solving and the rehashing and the analyzing But through valuing stillness and Seeing it as influential and useful it makes it so much more likely that we will Get to that place of stillness