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Being able to recognise and allow true rest is vital to us feeling whole, authentic and balanced. When we stop, we are able to experience the stillness that exists between and beyond our thoughts and self-narrative. Very often, we catch only a glimpse of this stillness, but this is all we need to see to know that it is there and, ultimately, if you’re willing to go all the way with us here, that it is who we really are.

Many self-help books provide the tools to go off and change your life. We hope you will read this book and, in the experience alone, see that the calm that you think will come when you’ve got it all worked out is already here. You’re just too busy trying to see it, to see it.

We will constantly urge you to do nothing. We will repeatedly reassure you that you, the world and the people around you have everything to gain from you doing nothing.

— Rest needs you to do nothing.

You will have had many moments of ‘doing nothing’ in your life before now, but what’s different is that you might not have turned your attention to this act of stopping before or how you felt during those moments. You might not even have noticed that you had stopped or thought about what that stopping was.

As we turn our attention to rest, we can explore what it’s like, and we will likely discover (or uncover) a place where everything can be welcomed, without condition, judgement or objective. A place where we are always welcome. How often does that happen in life?

ASK YOURSELF

If you can, take a moment right now to stop reading and do nothing. Ask if the stopping requires anything of you. What did you have to do to stop?