40 Day Challenge with Swan Michelle

The sound of the Divine is silence. There is silence underneath all of the busyness and cluttered worry, social tech programs, disturbed minds and repressed emotions but in general, we can not hear it.

My goal this year, which is my 20th year teaching yoga full time and owning 3 businesses, is to undo any outward action, habits or opinions that are unnecessary, which only create complication, disturbance and distraction, later leading to unskillful action.

Stillness is the practice of contemplation, not escapism, checking in, not out. It is dropping the hallucinations and current beliefs for clear vision and being.

There is a way to do stillness that is soft and gradual. It does not have to be extreme. This allows us to attend to our self, familial, relational, social and work responsibilities, yet with even more efficacy, potency and meaning. Viewing stillness as low in priority, impossible, luxurious, avoidant or selfish will create an irregularity in your mind. So will will convincing yourself you do not have the time.

You create or waste your time. We all do! Multiplicity, energy waste and an imbalance of outwardness may be your real imbalance and avoidance of what is going on within. How many of your thoughts waste your time, let alone actions? And is meditation working for you yet? For me, I often create another to do list. Any of these belief systems will get you to avoid and check out once you finally slow down (or pass out) instead of naturally seeking the solitude of energy gathering and true inner activism, which is deeply fulfilling, encouraging and self sustained.

Many outer actions are avoidance and addictive filler. Inner filler is truly a bunch of habits that have taken on form. It can take some undoing and it can be done!

Let’s make stillness cool again together. Join us! It’s far more needed than tons of ambitious, rigorous, cool looking yoga!