Words from Adam Moskowitz, teacher of Living Stillness Retreats and Rainbow Mind, a weekly online meditation group, shared with his permission.

This touched me deeply, remembering why meditate, why practice mindfulness, why relax and take care of ourselves—why it is important and essential that we return to our own okay-ness and ease, even and especially when many others in the world are suffering.

Adam's offering to the world is mindfulness meditation, and mine bodywork, but I often feel we are offering different doorways to the same practice (hence our collaborations), or at least we have a similar devotion to present-moment awareness, coming home simply to our own body and aliveness.

He uses words here like "coherence" and "clarity" and I hear "centered groundedness"; "ease" and I hear "nervous system regulation". Like most spiritual traditions, speaking different words for love.

A dear member of recently shared the following words from chemist and Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine:

"When a system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a
sea of chaos have the capacity to elevate the entire system to a higher
order."

At its heart, meditation reasserts and cultivates our innate coherence.
Not through force but through a radical decision to be present with
now-ness and the world as it is. We choose to prioritize the immediacy
of the moment—breathing, for example.

When we begin to see the breath more clearly, we begin to see everything more clearly. We can begin to see the movements of the mind. We begin
to see the various internal states that sponsor our moods, thoughts,
views, and actions.

We notice our defenses and distortions—and see these qualities as the origin of tension and suffering within ourselves and in the world.

When we make room for our struggle, we recognize that which is not struggling. We unearth ease and coherence. We soak it in.

Our ease, undistorted, gets bigger, takes up more room. We start to see
that it is more true than the other thing. It becomes a reference point
that informs our lives.

Through body, speech, and action, coherence becomes our offering. Not to
try to fix everything that we think is wrong (that causes overwhelm and
burnout).

Just because it feels right. It feels like a good thing to do. It’s
enough, and it’s of great value. It’s worthy beyond the knowing of our
conceptual mind.

Learn more about Adam's offerings at one mindful