Feeling a tad frazzled?

..... how much time do you set aside for stillness?

21st century life is a scary place, even more so right now, and it can be so easy to lose touch with our still centre.

You know, when your thoughts are scurrying around like hamsters on a hamster wheel, like teenagers on dodgem cars..... or hamsters on dodgem cars if you want to go surreal! ??

Gently bringing your thoughts back to a place of quiet and stillness fills your inner well, recharges your own personal battery. When you are running on empty you can serve nobody, least of all yourself.

I am not even talking anything so formal as meditation or mindfulness, although they are both very helpful.

Simply sitting quietly with NO digital distractions, nothing to read, nothing to listen to – how long could you do that? - 1 minute, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes, an hour?

Is the thought of all that silence scary??

Simply let your thoughts rise up – set the skittering thoughts free and to the thoughts that lie deeper in, give them their own space to breathe.

If there is something green outside to look at, or a beautiful sunset – so much the better, you can do this sitting outside, weather permitting. And hey if you want to turn this into sunbathing, that’s fine too!

If you want to make it into a spiritual practice that’s fine as well. I call it Quaker Time – that deeply peaceful sitting and waiting.

I like to do this in a particular chair that I use for meditating, and sit with paper and pen. If useful thoughts, reminders or ideas for blogs float into my head, I can make a note of them, and return to just sitting.

As the old saying goes Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

When I was an osteopathy tutor at the European School of Osteopathy, many many moons ago, I used to say to the 4th year students, who were beginning to learn some of the basics of the cranial approach – If you want to take this work seriously, it is vital that you have some practice of daily stillness in your life.

Cranial work demands deep groundedness from the practitioner, as we help the patients let go of their pain, their tension, their traumas.

And the stillness within a session of cranial osteopathy is profound, deeply healing and deeply refreshing.

I am beginning to open up to a few more in-person patients at my Hertfordshire clinics in Welwyn and Hitchin.

To book an appointment that will help you feel less frazzled, less stressed, and find a place of deep stillness within You, text me on 07535 350 343