Okay, friends, so what we're trying to develop more and more is to become able to feel this unity and peace within, right. So that's why we're doing these breathing exercises where we're doing all these moving exercise to create strength and vitality in the breath in the body, but also to start to open up the mind and calm down our whole nervous system to balance out our whole mind the nervous system, to become able to be just still and already feel at peace. Because this is very hard for most of us to be still and to be in peace. Because most of us as soon as we become still we become aware of all the restlessness that is within or how the mind is jumping from one place to the other, the future the past are thinking a lot of thoughts and is learning how to become And to become okay with it all to become okay with just being.
And when we can start to do that, you start to realize there's a deeper center within this inner stillness, this source of pure consciousness within with which we can connect to which is already in peace which is already imbalanced, which is already true, deep contentment. It's not so much about changing the whole world around us to make it in exactly that way where we think we will have that moment of peace or balance is to create it within. Then we can see balance, peace and harmony in everything around us as well. A lot of people will say that I don't have the time for this or I can sit still for 10 minutes or 20 minutes. Now, it's interesting to see because we can sit still for maybe half an hour or an hour watching a movie or sitting behind the computer doing something on the internet or working or something.
And then we can sit perfectly still no problem. So the problem is not really, that you're physically not being able to sit still. It's because your mind is too restless. So we learn with the breath and with the movements that we are doing, to calm down and slow down the breath and create some space within and then we can sit still for some time and start to become able to just observe what's happening to observe if if there is restlessness, we observe the restlessness, how does that actually feel? And if there is peace within it's also Okay, we feel the peace within as if we are watching a movie, right? So we become curious, we become kind of interested In the workings within of the mind and emotions and feelings, etc, so that we become able to distance ourselves a bit from it and just watch everything happen.
There are several very simple meditation techniques to start to calm down and focus the mind. And what we are going to do here a lot is concentrating on the breath so that we give the mind something to do right. We see how the breath flows in and how it flows out again, and if the mind wanders away, which is bring it back again to the breathing. To find one, there's a way again, we bring it back to the breathing. And in the beginning, it's interesting to see that maybe in just one full breath in and out, your mind can wander way to three or five different thoughts right We slowly just bring the mind back kind of currently this now just come back here again, focus on what is here right now, then it's the bread. So when we keep doing that, then it becomes a habit pattern for the brain for the mind to become focused on the present moment, what's here.
And now, the breath. If we become able to do that, for some time, the mind becomes fully focused on the present moment. It will learn to develop, to feel no judgement about what is there to feel kind of full openness, this curiosity that I talked about before, and feeling that it's all okay. Whatever is it's a pleasant sensation or unpleasant sensation or Word, something restless or peaceful. It's all good. We open ourselves up to it is it peeling off, layer by layer until we come to the source of ourselves, which is peace, happiness, love and kindness.