Stress to No Stress

Look at your hand. You are seeing it from emptiness. This is two-way looking – thing there seen from no-thing here, colour there seen in clearness here, shape there presented to the absence of shape here.

Now tense your hand into a fist. You feel stress there, arising in the absence of stress here. Now relax your hand. The tension melts away – a relaxed feeling taking its place in the unchanging absence of feeling here.

There in your body, in your mind, in your world, there may at times be lots of stress. Always there will be some – life is like that. But here at centre you are always free of stress. If you are aware that you operate into this stressful world from this stress-free place, it’s likely you will feel less stressed. It is deeply relaxing to be conscious of this totally still and peaceful place at one’s centre.

Draw on this resource whenever you find yourself in a stressful situation. Stay aware of the stress-free space here whilst responding to whatever stress you experience there.

This stress-free emptiness isn’t a special state of mind achieved or maintained by a technique – it is the stress-free emptiness in which all states of mind come and go. This full emptiness is always available, whatever your mood, whatever your situation.

Your body and mind get stressed but your true Self is always at ease.