Touching the Stillness

Beloved Touching the Stillness host Rev. Paulette Pipe bids farewell to Unity Online Radio. Before she heads into the mystery of what’s next, she assures listeners it’s more like a pause than a period at the end of her broadcast career.

When episode guest, author, and optometrist Dr. Jacob Liberman, experienced a miraculous healing of his eyesight, it opened him up to new insights about physical vision and revealed eye-opening spiritual discoveries and practices we can use to experience a more full-spectrum, luminous life.

How can engaging the five senses in a mindfulness practice possibly bring about miraculous manifestations? Our host suggests being intentional in our awareness provides a gateway for genius ideas to flourish; and with a calm meditation, demonstrates how to elicit such an outcome.

Three ordinary women who exhibited soul-shaking nerve and changed their lives with daring faith are the inspiration for this episode’s meditation and affirmative prayers.

“Who will take care of the children?” asked Unity cofounder Myrtle Fillmore in 1893. This episode’s meditation is dedicated to the little ones and the heart-centered guardians who—regardless of whether or not they have children of their own—are ready to answer, "I will!”

While the advert our host spotted on the London Tube was designed for harried commuters, she encourages listeners to use this clever remedy to create breathing space of their own.

Oh, the places we will go when our practice becomes second nature. After a nine-year hiatus, Rev. Paulette found her way home, in more ways than one, during an inadvertent meditation pilgrimage in the U.K.

It’s not unusual to hit a brick wall in our meditation practice at some point. But when the luster wears off, are there strategies we can use to stick with our practice, instead of succumbing to the urge to ditch it and run?

What’s your first instinct when someone holds up the line or the traffic in front of you? Do you tap your feet, rap your fingers, or let out a deep sigh? Perhaps there’s an alternative to make better use of those waiting periods that we can also bring to our practice.

You may not be able to stop your thoughts, but what if meditation could slow them down so they don’t have as much energy to drag us around the helter-skelter map of our minds? We learn how, as we put our thoughts under surveillance.