Do we need to still the mind to meditate?
The answer to this question would depend on what you consider meditation to be? At Openhand, meditation is moving to the place of the observer of ourselves where we are none identified with mind or body in which case, neither need to be still...

In Openhand the place of the observer is reached through breathing and movement. By focusing on a routine of exercises the mind is forced to concentrate on the moves and any tightness we observe within.

Over time, the realisation dawns experientially that you are not mind or body but pure awareness. This is a beautiful liberation as we begin to free ourselves from the conditioned thought patterns which can prevail our lives.

Thought is powerful. It has created and creates everything around us. It is said that "our experience of the world is the outcome of our idea about it". As we think, so we are. For many of us, our thinking can be confused. We live in our minds and have endless thoughts both positive and negative and all of these thoughts are creative.

If we can disassociate ourselves from these thoughts, then we find a new reality begins to spontaneously unfold for us - a destiny that is more in keeping with who we really are. This then is the power of meditation in movement, the experience of which we can then bring into our daily lives where we are moving constantly.

If you'd like to know more about Openhand's meditation in movement...click here