Welcome to the Introduction to the Blue State of Stillness.
This course introduces you to the practice of stillness, the first essential step on your journey toward comfort, wellbeing, and vitality. By learning to slow down, remain still, and invite both body and mind into a state of rest, you reach your first milestone.
From there, the next step is to integrate the Three Core Skills: cultivating restful breathing, softening your muscles, and strengthening your embodiment. You’ll develop each of these core skills in its own dedicated NeuroEI course. Together, they strengthen your stillness practice and deepen its restfulness.
Integrating these Three Core Skills is an important steppingstone to mastering the Six Fundamentals of Stillness: Rest, Feel, Embody, Reassure, Care, and Accept. These six fundamental abilities define and activate the Blue State of Stillness. By mastering them, you unlock the transformative power and emotional intelligence of this attentive, restful, and potent state, gradually establishing deep comfort, wellbeing, awakened vitality, and joy in your life.
Course Syllabus
The Practice of Stillness is introduced in three stages:
1. Initiating stillness (Practices 1 – 9)
To initiate the practice of stillness, pause movement, settle into a comfortable posture, remain still, and follow your breath. Expand your breathing experience, calm your mind, and explore techniques like counting pulse and breath to facilitate the practice of stillness and deepen its restfulness.
2. Deepening stillness (Practices 10 – 12)
Transition from merely pausing movement and remaining still to actively slowing down and encouraging your body and mind rest. Soften your muscles and strengthen your sense of groundedness to deepen your stillness. This helps you recognize bio-signals like pleasantness, calmness, and comfort, indicating successful effective slowing down, activation of Parasympathetic Rest, and increased NeuroCalmness.
3. Sustaining stillness (Practice 13 – 14)
Acknowledge and endure discomfort during the practice of stillness, verifying that it does not require immediate medical attention. Focus on the comfort and increased NeuroCalmness, even amidst discomfort. Learn to experience comfort alongside your discomfort and acknowledge how these opposite sensations can coexist within your body.