Marlise responds to your questions with insight on the next steps:

Results Happenign So Quickly
Since I've been doing Stillness Sessions, I get a quickening of the outcomes when I set an intension. Will it last?

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Initiating Calm In Chaos
I have advanced cancer and a hectic life, how do I initiate Stillness if I am always anxious?

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Consistent Connection To The Power Within
How do I hold on to that expansive powerful state I get in Stillness and keep it going during the day?

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Holding On To Old Relationships
How to leave behind the negative energy, and handle with compassion?

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Managing Apprehension
How to become comfortable with my new sense of self and open the door to finding my own path?

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Finding What Gives You True Security
My young son is experiencing bad nightmares. What is the best way to help him feel safe?

Course Participant: ...I’ve been unpacking, and...I came across lots of stuff that didn’t make me feel good—things with old businesses and past relationships.  Also lots of lists.  ... I got so anxious about feeling stuck.
 

Marlise: When we connect to our true nature, whatever doesn’t work for us anymore... bubbles to the top.  All that 'stuff' is wanting to be let go... it won’t help you be who you truly are.  You cannot create fresh from an old way of being, even the memories could hold you back.  It will not bring you satisfaction anymore.  You could be feeling anxious.. because you are letting it all go now.. You know what is most important,  and it's not those lists or any of that 'stuff'.

All those things from your past that bring you sadness - are giving you an awareness that you’re moving on.  You can love those things... and put them in a box and keep them or just let them go.

We all have to discover what’s holding us back and often our 'things' have an old energy in them.  Once they are released, we feel the simplicity of life, and the movement of where we’re going; the joy and the adventure of it all.  There is no- thing that is really more important than living in harmony with our true nature.


Why Am I Having Such Resistence?

Participant: I’d just like to get your feedback on resistance.  I firmly believe that everything you’re saying would be true for me if I practiced being able to have moments in my day where I would be still. But I cannot understand why I’m having such resistance to being able to step outside my momentum, basically, and take that time.

Marlise: We have grown up in a world of human doings; we are doing machines.  I know, I was one of them:  I can make it happen.  Just give me the project.  What I discovered is that there is efforting in that, which doesn’t give you a lot of joy.

As I moved into greater connection, I discovered so many miraculous events occurring in my life that I realized, it was actually a waste of my time to move straight into action if I was in a doing mode. I would have to make lots of phone calls to make something happen - whereas if I began from a place of connection, I would be inspired which were the best calls to make;  I usually only needed to make a few - and all of them would be in the flow of what I was creating.   People would call me, even before I could pickup the phone to call them.

So the first awareness is to notice is when you’re feeling agitated - when you’re [in] doing, there’s this pumped-up, high energy, 20-espresso thing going on, and at the same time, there’s a part of you—getting very stressed.   You can feel it.

When you’re in the middle of things moving too fast—like the phones just won’t stop ringing — just go shut the door.  Five minutes.  That’s all you need.  Watch what happens.  Within seconds of doing the Three Breathe Awareness, things begin slowing down, and inspiration comes in - you feel your connection to that state of presence growing.  You will love these short breaks more and more.  pretty soon, you’ll only need to breathe deep a few times and you will be surrounded by the miraculous, where all your actions happen from inspiration; synchronicity is all around you, the stress you used to feel has become a memory in your past.  You will end up taking time for this more and more – it makes life so much more fun. and it works.

 

I Am Experiencing Challenges

Luana: I am experiencing challenges. I don't like them :) I am not used to them. They frustrate me at this moment in time. What happened? To 'make' a seemingly well adjusted human being to desire to throw rocks at the wall ?!!! Help us Marlise with one of your responses full of wisdom ~ xoxo

 

Marlise: There are times when it is not easy to see that there is a perfection in everything.. It can be very uncomfortable to experience this level of anger and frustration... and it's good to let it move through you.. Do what you can to rele...ase it by doing something physical - take a walk, a run, do yoga, go swimming... feel the energy moving out of your body...

Watch a funny movie, do whatever you can to shift the intensity of what you are feeling. Once it all slows down.. you can get into Stillness.. and invite in the understanding of what is happening on an even deeper level..

You will see in a while with clarity.. what gift was being brought to you.. to connect you more deeply with you at your core..

Sending you love, xxx, m
 

Dealing With Depression 

Mike: All my life I've struggled with depression and poor self esteem and self-image that had me believing myself to be worth much less than I am. Most of it stems from my family and the role I've played.

I'm learning what my potential is, yet as I do, I feel like I'm always being pulled back into the role of underachiever. It seems the closer I get to breaking free of my past, the more resistance I get from others. I read books, listen to self-improvement CDs and seminar tapes as much as I can in the time I have when I'm not at school or studying or in the gym.

How can I break free, and become the man I know I have the potential to become? I've seen that man occasionally, others see it in me, yet my subconscious still seems to want to hold onto that identity despite the fact it no longer serves me or who I can be?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, ~M


Marlise: I know how you feel... you are in good company. And... I no longer feel that way at all.  i have seen many others move from the state you are in - to having happier lives than they ever imagined. Soon, i will put up a video of an 11 year old who was also facing these challenges because of her father dying... and then she began doing The Practices of The Simplicity of Stillness - and today, 9 months later - she can't barely remember being that sad...

By October I will have a CD online that you can use to do Stillness - it is a tool that will guide you to the knowing you have within of how great you really are. After a while you will know it and be able to go into Stillness in even a breath...

You can draw it to you even now... go to my YouTube page and do the 3 Breath Awareness with me - read the Stillness Session practice on my site... begin now... all will happen... it is a beautiful ride. xxx to you, marlise

Mike (2 Months Later): I wrote to you a while ago about my life long struggles with depression. Only recently have I been able to set aside the habits talking myself up to where I thought I should be, trying to digest several self help books and the mantras contained in them, my so called "security blanket."

Instead, looking inside, past the voices of family, who I've been conditioned to be and the self-image that programming developed. Past what and who I've felt I needed to be for others to like me, passed the inner self-critic, and looked till I found the sound of silence and the peace of stillness within me.

I've had moments of inner peace before, but none compare to the feeling of eternal connection and stillness that moment gave me. This is where I feel the real me can begin to emerge, as the man I choose and have been called to be. I just wanted to say thank you, my life isn't the same as it was even a week ago.

Sincerely, M


Marlise: M, thank you for your beautiful heart... now you will fly as you have always known you could... it is your hearts greatest yearning... to know what you have now touched... and you can go there again and again... The journey has its ups and downs, yes... like life... but once we really see... and touch that knowing.. it can expand for us.. This is the real you... that is what has risen to the light so you can see your greatness...

Thank you for writing to me... this is why i do what i do... for people like you, like me, to touch that deepest knowing after years of pain... its so GOOD.. it’s so good to know love - not from out side... but from the inside. That eternal connection is going to grow... as you stay open and invite it in... it will continue... more than you can even dream now..

i am planning to do tele-seminars soon, i hope you will join me.. as you will feel that love and go deeper.. follow your heart my friend... Sending you soooo many blessings, marlise

Mike (Later That Month): As I've ventured deeper and deeper inward, into the stillness, beyond the noise and conditioning, I've found pains that had long been repressed. Now I can begin to truly heal.

Those moments of clarity, the peace seen there is unlike any other. I thank you for doing and being all that you are. I can only hope to do half of what you've done and helped me do, for others in the future.


Marlise: You are already doing more than you know... sending you soooo much love.