The Practice of the Week Week 2
Two Minutes on the Mountain
Two minutes of silence a day — letting thoughts pass like weather.
One simple thing. Keep it small, keep it doable, and do it with them first.
Once a day, put the phone in another room. Sit up straight. Take five slow breaths from your belly — hand on your stomach, feel it rise. Then sit in silence for two minutes. Thoughts will pour in immediately. That’s not failing — that’s the practice. Each time you notice you’ve drifted, take a breath and come back. You are the mountain; the thoughts are only weather.
Through the day, one deep breath with a single word on the exhale: “Rest.”
Phone in another room. Sit upright, feet on the floor.
Five slow belly breaths — in through the nose, out through the mouth.
Two minutes of silence. Let thoughts come and pass.
When you drift, breathe once and return. Don’t judge the drift.
May your heart grow single, and may the quiet you find begin to show you God.