“Be still and know me.”
The first time that I heard this quote was about 30 years ago. Back then, I could hardly stand still and hardly know myself. But as I sat still and asked myself to contemplate on that, shortly after, agitation rose as heat and shakiness throughout my whole body and gradually subsided, and then everything slowed down, and for a brief moment I felt as if the whole world had stopped, silence, and a peaceful breeze. I felt more aware of everything around me and within me. Slowly, I went back in time to my childhood in Sinai: sitting hours and hours “doing nothing”, standing still and knowing everything through the breeze on the skin, sounds of the vast desert, realizing the stillness, the motion within stillness. My own forces in unity with everything around me, joy, every movement arises from stillness, many theories speak about it. Genesis – bible, Taoism – when to stand still – to meet stillness after motion and before motion. Tai-Chi, Chi-gong, Buddhism, Hinduism, Greek philosophy, Christianity, Tibetan, and more.
In the Christian Middle Ages, ideas stillness was the gateway to unity with god. In Zen, stillness is where our very being arises from omnipresent and vibrant.
I love Becker’s encouragement to wait in a receptive and still state until “something happens…”
The Tibetan describes it as ‘clear light flows’.
my experience in meditations and in sessions: where the mind has space, and from space rises movement, and the movement is stillness. Stillness is
deep, a vast movement that enables one to center – it is the center of every motion. Stillness is something to be conscious about, to be with it where there is space in our mind, where the source of movement is a free-flowing interchange with our conditional forces. Stillness is within conditional forces, within patterns. Stillness resonates with the space, time, and the field of health, which is never lost. Stillness is the motive power to build space and flow into patterns of trauma and disabilities, to interchange into a state of balance.
Becker also noted that stillness, which lies at the core of all life processes, is both dynamic and alive.
In the context of the world of the Biodynamic, the term Dynamic stillness arises. It implicates the rhythm of the power of the breath of life is deeply and essentially rooted in this stillness as it manifests.
Creative intelligence potency throughout space and time; health potency.
In a practical Biodynamic craniosacral context: A practioner access direct perception of stillness, which allows one to deepen beyond conceptual mind, and beyond acknowledgement and palpating conditional states to the roots of our human condition. Being consciously with dynamic stillness perception, it permeates all space, reconciles all opposites, and all activities and forms are manifestations of its subtle function and action. Stillness is profoundly healing. Accessing the still points is a gateway to dynamic stillness that leads to the deeper source and origin.
In my experience, accessing perceptual and being in dynamic stillness, receptive, and spacious. This is when dynamically every motion rises and falls, where potency acts out interchange with conditional forces and allows “true memories of health, of essential blueprint and energy to rise and to feel reconnected, alive and at home”. There is only relative experience of stillness in our body-mind system, and the shifts of our consciousness as we deepen into stillness. It is an unfolding process.
Franklyn Sills speaks of what he learned from Jim Jealous about the 7 depths of stillness, which he learned from Jim Jealous, that unfold from the Autonomic, limbic, and cerebral cortex to the physical, emotional, and physiological, and go on to the heart of the Karmic, and the mind/ archetypal, and to the spirit and the source.
It is a never-ending purification process for me. True connectedness and true love. Unconditionally, understanding (relatively), dynamic stillness is to relate, to connect to a deep understanding of the creation of life as a whole – the known and the unknown.
