I am a diver. When I first learned to dive my instructor taught us about buoyancy. She did this by teaching us how to sit on the sand beneath the surface. We then learned how to be still, not float up but just sit quietly and breath.
As you can see in the photo--I was still learning this lesson.
Something beautiful happens when you sit long enough on the floor of the ocean, especially amidst the coral reef. The marine life notices your stillness and doesn’t feel threatened by it, so they start to emerge from their hiding places and get back to their lives, eating, swimming, socializing with other sea life. It’s magnificent to watch and it is really one of the most peaceful places I have found in my life. I am fully out of my element; without that air tank I bring with me I wouldn’t be able to be there. But there I am nonetheless, in awe of the beauty and intricacy swimming around me.
What I am suggesting requires stillness. Something I am not so good at in my normal life but there underneath the surface I enjoy this stillness because it allows me to see sea life that I wouldn’t normally get to see if I was too busy swimming around.
Movement in this moment doesn’t help my cause. And isn’t this how life is sometimes, we get so caught up in moving around us and we don’t stop and allow the stillness to reveal beautiful things to us.
I am notorious for my discomfort with stillness. Ask my family, my friends, they know! However, it’s something I have been trying to practice in my life. Allowing myself to sit in stillness at certain moments and allow life to reveal simple yet beautiful things to me.
Do you struggle to allow stillness into your life?
What ways have you attempted to practice stillness?
One on one coaching is a wonderful way to help us reflect on the aspects of our life that would benefit from stillness.
Schedule a Connect Call today to see how one on one coaching can support you in finding stillness and noticing the beauty in the simplicity of life.
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