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Silence, Stillness and Simplicity

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Carmel Beach – Photo by Hana Wilkins

Three words that carry so much power in our lives. These states can often be overlooked in our busy, noisy world. Each, when practiced regularly can bring us to the realization that our happiness comes from within.

“Be still, and know that I am God” says it all. Silence is golden.

Stillness Speaks, Eckhart Tolle’s powerful book, reminds us of our Divine Presence within.

Simplicity shows us we can quickly return to our Highest Self just by breathing and touching our heart. (HeartMath Institute, Gregg Braden).

Happiness springs up easily from that stillness within because Joy is our true Nature.

“The Music of Silence” is a beautiful demonstration of these principles. It is an autobiographical movie about the life of one of my all time favorite singers, Andrea Bocelli. His singing and voice/life coach teaches him that in order to have the best depth of quality from his voice he needs to practice Silence.

Andrea has achieved more than his best quality by practicing silence. He has achieved transcendence in his singing. I had the opportunity of seeing one of his live performances. The audience, including me, experienced that transcendence; we cried, felt love and had goosebumps together throughout the performance. Speechless, awed and happy I left that concert feeling the high self and spirit of that incredible beingness of Andrea Bocelli.  Truly inspiring.

When we are in touch with our inner stillness, silence, the simplicity of our God Self has a chance to guide us and bring the smallest and greatest aspects of our lives into transcendence. My mom’s famous Lemon Meringue pie was definitely transcendent. Never to be duplicated. As a child I would join her sitting on the couch and ask her, “What are you doing?” She would respond, “I’m just Being.” “Oh, Being.” I always remembered that feeling that it was OK to just Be. Now I realize that her beingness and stillness went right into her transcendent Lemon Meringue pie and all of her cooking.

We all have very unique, transcendent, Divine qualities to share that can be encouraged to make themselves known by practicing mindfulness, meditation, stillness, simplicity and just Being. My wish is that you will know how incredibly wonderful you are and that you will share your own transcendent qualities even if just for yourself.

Don’t worry. Be happy.

Stillness Nina Wilkins

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I have been a professional channel for 30 years.  I channel Sananda, Kudos, 7 Spirit Dolphins and Lela, my High Self.  Over the years I have received very specific guidance for my spiritual growth, healing and everyday life problem solving.  I became accustomed to receiving this wonderful helpful guidance, when all of a sudden it stopped.

I had been channeling for about 12 years and happily receiving helpful suggestions for any number of topics when it just stopped, though I knew my guides were present.  I would get into my usual quiet space and get ready to channel and ask my question, and I would hear, “Be still and Know that I Am God.”

Each day I would pray and get into my “channeling space” and ask again, and I would hear, “Be still and Know that I Am God.”

This was a very challenging time of my life as my daughter and I were caretakers of a 2,000 acre ranch.  She was only 10 years old, and we were pretty much on our own discovering how to live in the country and take care of horses, chickens, dogs, cats, a hamster and a bunny, while assisting the owners in developing the ranch. I was feeling this is not the time for my channeling to stop.

In a very real sense it hadn’t stopped, it had changed.  I found I had many synchronicities each day and was moved to be right where I needed to be each day.  I was feeling happy and peaceful as my daughter had always wanted a horse and one of my dreams of getting to know wild animals “personally” was coming true. Several times the same owl would greet us as we drove up the two-mile dirt driveway. It would fly right alongside us.  We grew to know and be familiar with badgers, hawks, wild boar, a fox, a weasel, skunks, bobcats and, of course, our farm animals.

Still, each day, I would meditate and pray, though no direct information came except, “Be still and Know that I Am God.”  This did give me peace and the thought,  “OK,  I will do my best at that.”

This same process continued for two years, until one day I shouted, “What does this mean??” When I “heard” in the silence the sweetest voice saying, “I just want you to know me in the silence.”

The presence was so tender and loving that I felt very foolish at not recognizing that during this time period I was getting guidance from the still silence.  My own intuition was stronger, and I was growing spiritually.

After this day, my channeling resumed and I began to receive very specific guidance again, but it became more a part of my whole self– the feeling of always being connected and cherished by the Divine presence within me. “Be still and Know that I Am God” has become a practice and preamble to my channeling.  So, I highly recommend the stillness that can be found within you while walking, doing the dishes, gardening or doing just about anything. Peace, joy and love will shine through you as that is who you are.

Stillness Nina Wilkins