Chapter 4

Using Pause-Points™: wheels up

A uniformed woman sits in the cockpit of the plane. Dials and monitors are in front of her. The graphic has the text, Prya, pilot.

How stillness uncovers what’s really going on

A couple of times in this book we’ve invited you to stop. How has that been for you? Did you manage to do it? Did you find it easy to simply stop for a moment? Welcome to the twenty-first century, the busiest time of our history.

All of us are juggling too much. That’s not a criticism, it’s an observation. According to MIT, the average American is spending 24 hours online per week – and the rest of the western world is not far behind.

In all this hurly burly, it is difficult to find space and silence. And yet these are precious beyond measure. At the simplest ...

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