Speaker 1: Hustles to us. Good morning, Welcome to this quiet moment.
Speaker 1: To day, we explore the sacred pause that lives between
Speaker 1: each breath, the stillness that holds all of life together.
Speaker 1: Take a slow, deep breath in, and as you exhale,
Speaker 1: feel the space that opens up when one breath ends
Speaker 1: and before the next one begins. Let that space be
Speaker 1: your doorway into stillness. Let it be your invitation to
Speaker 1: slow down. Between every inhale and every exhale, there is
Speaker 1: a pause. It is brief, almost imperceptible, yet it is
Speaker 1: the place where everything changes. The breath rises, reaches its
Speaker 1: highest point, and for a moment it simply rests. Then
Speaker 1: it falls, reaches its lowest depth, and pauses again before
Speaker 1: rising once more. This tiny silence is not empty. It
Speaker 1: is full of potential, full of prisons. It is the
Speaker 1: place where the body resets, where the mind can rest,
Speaker 1: and where the spirit finds its footing. Most of the
Speaker 1: time we rush through these pauses without noticing them. We
Speaker 1: in heir quickly and ats hal quickly, moving from one
Speaker 1: breath to the next as those speed where the goal.
Speaker 1: But the pause itself is not a mistake, It is
Speaker 1: not a delay. It is the moment of greatest clarity,
Speaker 1: the place where the body receives the oxygen it needs
Speaker 1: and the mind receives the stillness it craves. When you
Speaker 1: slow down enough to notice the pause, you discover that
Speaker 1: it has been waiting for you all along, patiently, quietly,
Speaker 1: ready to hold you. Imagine for a moment a musician
Speaker 1: who never pauses between notes. The music would be a
Speaker 1: blur of sound, overwhelming and directionless. It is the spaces
Speaker 1: between the notes that give music its shape, its rhythm,
Speaker 1: its beauty. The pause is not the absence of music,
Speaker 1: it is the foundation of it. In the same way,
Speaker 1: the pauses in our lives are not empty spaces to
Speaker 1: be filled. They are the foundation upon which everything else
Speaker 1: is built. Without the pause, there is no rhythm. Without rhythm,
Speaker 1: there is no flow. Consider the moments between your daily tasks.
Speaker 1: You finish one thing and move immediately to the next,
Speaker 1: barely allowing yourself a moment to breathe. But what if
Speaker 1: before beginning the next task, you allowed yourself a sacred pause.
Speaker 1: What if you stopped, took one slow and let yourself
Speaker 1: feel the ground beneath your feet before moving on. This
Speaker 1: small act of pausing does not waste time. It creates space,
Speaker 1: It brings clarity. It allows you to begin each new
Speaker 1: thing with intention rather than haste. Even in conversation, the
Speaker 1: pause holds great power. Between one person's words and another's response,
Speaker 1: there is a space where understanding can settle in. When
Speaker 1: we rush to fill that space with our own words,
Speaker 1: we often miss what the other person is really saying.
Speaker 1: But when we pause, even for a heartbeat, we create
Speaker 1: room for deeper listening, genuine connection, for the kind of
Speaker 1: understanding that only silence can bring. The sacred pause is
Speaker 1: not just for meditation, It is for all of life.
Speaker 1: The sacred pause is also the space between thoughts. The
Speaker 1: mind is always producing thoughts one after another in an
Speaker 1: endless stream, But between any two thoughts there is a gap.
Speaker 1: It may be as brief as a heartbeat, but it
Speaker 1: is there, always there, waiting to be noticed. When you
Speaker 1: rest in that gap, you discover something remarkable. You discover
Speaker 1: that you are not your thoughts. You are the awareness
Speaker 1: that observes them, the stillness in which they arise and
Speaker 1: pass away. The pause reveals the true nature of the mind,
Speaker 1: which is not restless but profoundly peaceful. In the pause
Speaker 1: between breaths, there is no past and no future. There
Speaker 1: is only now. The breath that has just ended is
Speaker 1: already gone, and the breath that is about to begin
Speaker 1: has not yet arrived. In this liminal space, time itself
Speaker 1: seems to dissolve. There is only the present moment, complete
Speaker 1: and whole, needing nothing and wanting nothing. This is the
Speaker 1: sacred pause. It is not something you need to create
Speaker 1: or manufacture. It already exists within you, in every breath
Speaker 1: and every heart beat, in every quiet moment between one
Speaker 1: thing and the next. Notice now how your body responds
Speaker 1: when you give the pause your full attention. The shoulders
Speaker 1: may soften, the jaw may loosen, The space around your
Speaker 1: heart may feel wider, more open, more at ease. The
Speaker 1: pause is not just a mental concept. It is a
Speaker 1: physical experience. It is the body remembering how to rest,
Speaker 1: how to be still, how to let go of the
Speaker 1: attention it has been carrying without even knowing it. Each
Speaker 1: pause is a small gift of relaxation, a moment of
Speaker 1: release that ripples through the entire being. As you continue
Speaker 1: to breathe, let your awareness settle into the spaces between
Speaker 1: your breath. Notice how the pause feels. Is it tight
Speaker 1: or spacious. Is it hurried or patient? There is no
Speaker 1: wrong answer. Simply observe. The pause is always there, regardless
Speaker 1: of how you feel about it, and it always offers
Speaker 1: the same gift, a moment of stillness, a moment of clarity,
Speaker 1: a moment in which you can simply be. You do
Speaker 1: not need to do anything in the pause, You only
Speaker 1: need need to be in it. As we prepare to
Speaker 1: leave this quiet moment, carry the sacred pause with you.
Speaker 1: Let it accompany you through the morning, through the afternoon,
Speaker 1: and into the evening. Let it be the space between
Speaker 1: your words, the breath between your tasks, the stillness between
Speaker 1: your thoughts. The pause is always available to you. It
Speaker 1: is always within reach. It is always waiting, patient and generous,
Speaker 1: ready to remind you that the most powerful thing you
Speaker 1: can do is simply stop, breathe and be still. Thank
Speaker 1: you for sharing this quiet moment. I will be here
Speaker 1: with you again tomorrow