The book uses a program based on mindfulness meditation developed by Williams and Penman at the University of Oxford to relieve anxiety, stress, exhaustion and depression.
In this CNN feature the authors discuss ‘10 easy steps’ to destress your life.
Here’s something which you can also do, proactively, each day which, if done regularly, will help to desensitize yourself to stress. It’s called ‘entering the silence’ as well as ‘practising the silence.’
Now, the silence is not a negative state of mind nor is it an inert state of mind. It is a place where you can hear interiorly the ‘still small voice’ (1Ki 19:12). Jesus had some good advice on this matter. His instruction (cf Mt 6:6) was to enter into the closet (that is, the silence of your mind) and shut the door – that is, focus your attention on the experience of simply being without seeking to think, feel, analyse, and so forth.
When you enter the silence, you are approaching the very presence of being – that is, sheer existence … the very livingness of life itself. The state of mind experienced in the silence is not one of passivity or non-action. No, it is an awakened state of mind in which all things are experienced – as new – in the eternal now. Mental action may slow – indeed, it should – but the action of being fully present in the moment from one moment to the next will quicken and intensify.
Mystics of all faiths and none often refer to the experience of the silence as a period of conscious communion with the sacred or the divine. Indeed, it is, for what could be more sacred or divine than life itself … in all its fullness … experienced in the intensity of the moment? There is only one life manifesting itself in all things as all things. If you can truly know – not as book-knowledge – this life as one you will experience conscious communion with all life. Yes, you will come to know the ‘Self as One.’ In the words of the poet John Keats, ‘that is all there is to know on earth and all you need to know.’
If you are ‘new’ to the practice of the silence, I suggest that you do not make the period of silence too long in the beginning. Start with, say, 2 or 3 minutes. The important thing is to have a regular period of silence each day, preferably at the same time (eg first thing in the morning).
Return to the silence throughout the day as and when necessary and when you simply want to commune with the divine. The experience of the silence is akin to the proverbial calm that follows the storm, but it is much more than that. The silence is calm. It knows no storms. The silence is that peace that passes all understanding (cf Phil 4:7) and which abides in the minds of those who consciously dwell in the eternal now. The silence is a power – indeed, the Power – for good which makes all things new. The silence is a presence – indeed, the Presence – in which we, along with all other persons and things, live and move and have our being (cf Acts 17:28).
Practise the silence. Angels can do no better.
Read more at Dr Ian Ellis-Jones … Mindfulness Training
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