Creating and Expanding the Gap Between Thoughts

In StarFish: The Evolution of People At Work (Book Two of the Trilogy) Jax and Simon discuss the constant repetition of negative thoughts people experience each day. How does a person find stillness amid the barrage of negativity? Jax teaches Simon a simple method I will repeat here. I learned this method from one of my zen teachers early in my life. Eckhart Tolle wrote about it as finding or creating the gap in thoughts. It's the duration between thoughts that brings the experience of a stillness in consciousness. This daily exercise is rather simple and can be done almost anywhere. I suggest using a window as the location where you start. Simply look out the window, and breathe deeply from your belly. While doing so bring your awareness to the window and what is outside and form no mental thought about it. Continue to breathe in and out slowly and as thoughts stream by ... and they will ... just think about nothing. Do not bring awareness to them or allow them to tumble into other thoughts. Simply breathe. Try at first to expand the gap of no thoughts for 15-30 seconds for a week or so. Over time you will be able to go for a minute or longer. Many are able to do this for 5 minutes with practice. The stillness you experience cannot be described in words. Jax calls this expanding the gap in thoughts. Enjoy. Make today a masterpiece.

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