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THE STILLNESS CODE

The First Practice

The Seated Minute

One deliberate minute, taken before the day is allowed to speak. Guided by Rev Benton.

The Seated Minute

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The movement

  1. Stop.
  2. Take one deliberate breath.
  3. Notice what is moving in you.
  4. Do not obey it yet.
  5. Return inwardly to the seat from which a response can be chosen.

Practise it at the first provocation of the day — before the phone, before the reply, before the old sentence finishes itself. The minute is small. The jurisdiction it recovers is not.

The practice continues

The First Readers receive each new practice as it is released.